Episode 4: Commercial Enterprise

The Mirror Universe Star Trek podcast

Star Trek is a show about big dreams, that looks to the best and purest impulses of human nature, and a future without material needs...but it's also a owned by a major studio, and its artistic impulses are tempered by capitalism as much as anything. In this episode we look at how Trek has struggled with the demands of being a major, big-budget franchise that's owned by a corporation, and how the movies in particular have always attempted to be "Trek's big break" but never quite got there (and maybe that's for the best).

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