The BBC1 television recording below from January 16, 1985 shows the moment during a rerun of Star Trek that the film breaks. (The episode is The Return of The Archons.) It's the perfect storm of incongruity and dissonance: Sulu's monologue, the glitch of the torn film, the unplanned announcement, the words "Temporary fault" across the still frame of Kirk and Spock, and the groovy library music. — Read the rest
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