IP, does and does not need upgrade for the digital age. Fan-produced takeoffs flourish on Youtube. But a feature length film was a big stretch. I would have loved to see it go. CBS/Paramount would have lost nothing, maybe gotten more trekkies on board. But not to be.

Jules Verne’s space cannon. Solved the shock issue by using a slow-burn “gun-cotton.” A tat more plausable than H. G. Well’s anti-gravity mineral “cavorite.”