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A Slower Pace

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I was born in the same year as Star Trek, which gives me a cosmic connection to Gene Roddenberry’s creation. I remember seeing the first Star Trek movie (with the breathtakingly clumsy title of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which I guess is a notch above Star Trek: We Recorded This On Celluloid Filmstock) and being bored and incredibly disappointed. I just stumbled across this trailer, and my God, was everyone on Quaaludes in the 1970s? This is absolutely languorous!