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“How do you define ‘unwarranted’?”

In science, graduate students perform research in order to gather enough data to publish research articles. However, in the background they are also trying to – you know – graduate so they can someday get a job that pays rent and such. That means writing a thesis: a multi-hundred paged tome that chronicles the student’s human journey from neophyte to specialist in a specific field. Here at the Arts Union Science journal, we have been performing a similar task in the background and, today, we begin to unveil it to the world. This is the first chapter of our Arts Union Science Thesis on the original Star Trek films.

Join our Thesis Supervisor and resident Star Trek “expert” (Tyler D. R. Vance) and the primary researcher for this endeavour who’s never seen so much as an episode of Star Trek (Daniel Schep) as they go through Star Trek: The Motion Picture. While discussing this sizeable bag stuffed with contents of mixed quality, they’ll also find time to ask questions (that need answering) regarding the place Solaris has in the hard vs. soft sci-fi continuum, the omnipresence of diopter shots on the bridge of the Enterprise, and the logistics of Scotty’s route efficiency while piloting shuttle pods.

If you’d like to leave a review of our first Star Trek Thesis chapter, feel free to email us at artsunionscience@gmail.com. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Thesis, releasing intermittently on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more.

“THIS is how I define ‘unwarranted’!”