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228 – Star Trek VI is a Shakespeare Play!

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This episode comes from my recent livestream about Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and its Shakespearean influences. The plot is a real-time metaphor for the end of the Cold War, highlighting larger-than-life personalities and critical historical moments in a way that Shakespeare did when writing his history plays. Klingon costumes are based on Elizabethan … Continue reading

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