194. Kolinahr Statement Necklace (ST:TMP)

Anika and Liz don their gaudiest statement necklaces and medallions and get the band back together for an adventure in Millennial Greige, 46 years before TikTok invented that concept.

Yes! It's time to discuss Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and yes, this episode is 90 minutes long, but please note that's still shorter than the movie itself. And we have a lot to talk about! Such as...

• Content note: In 2014, actor Stephen Collins admitted to "inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors". We have chosen to talk about his character, but not his performance - as far as the two can be separated. 
• Hot take: we like The Motion Picture
• Anika argues that Spock is the protagonist of The Motion Picture. Kirk is also in this movie.
• It's too often forgotten that Persis Khambatta is the first woman of colour to play the female lead in a Star Trek film (which is separate from the problem where, up until 2009, the films kept introducing new female leads rather than ever developing Uhura…)
• "My oath of celibacy is on record." Gene. What the fuck.
• Season 4 of Discovery has a lot of The Motion Picture in its DNA … and so does SNW! (Anika has a strong argument that Christine's characterisation in SNW owes more to this film than TOS)
• Possibly our most controversial opinion: we mostly like the uniforms
  
• Antimatter Pod: "We don't ship Kirk/Spock."
  Also Antimatter Pod: " Anyone who thinks that this movie is not about Kirk and Spock being in love is not watching this movie."
• Anika tells Liz about The Lost Years by JM Dillard, queen of the fiery red-haired psychic OFC