STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE

'''STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE. Robert Wise, dir.''' USA: Paramount, 1979. Harold Livingston and Alan Dean Foster, script.

For most of the film the characters are inside the starship ENTERPRISE, which is itself inside a gigantic machine. See for a positive view of human/machine merger. Discussed by V. Sobchack in Screening Space, Chapter 4. Discussed in TMG by D. Palumbo (cited under Drama Criticism).