This is the ninth installation in the Star Trek film franchise, a whole future worldview which appears to have become part of the late 20th-century pop culture, for better or worse.
In my view, for the better, for two reasons.
First, Star Trek presents a picture of the future which is in stark contrast to the nihilism of much post-Armageddon-type sci-fi, which is nothing if not depressing, and depressingly repetitive.
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