Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 motion picture released by
Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature film of the Star Trek
science fiction franchise and is the center of a three-film story arc
that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and concludes with
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. After the death of Spock (Leonard
Nimoy), the crew of the USS Enterprise (pictured) returns to Earth. When
James T. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that Spock's spirit is held in
the mind of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk and
company steal the Enterprise to return Spock's body to his home planet.
The crew must also contend with hostile Klingons, led by Kruge
(Christopher Lloyd), bent on stealing the secrets of a powerful
terraforming device. Paramount commissioned the film after positive
critical and commercial reaction to The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy directed,
the first Star Trek cast member to do so. Producer Harve Bennett wrote
the script starting from the end and working back, and intended the
destruction of the Enterprise to be a shocking development. The film
grossed $76 million at the domestic box office and a total of
$87 million worldwide. Critical reaction to The Search for Spock was
mixed to positive. Reviewers generally praised the cast and characters,
while criticism tended to focus on the plot; the special effects were
conflictingly received. Roger Ebert called the film a compromise between
the tones of the first and second Star Trek films.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_III:_The_Search_for_Spock>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1645:
English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of
King Charles I was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under
Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Naseby>
1822:
In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English
mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured),
an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial
functions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine>
1940:
World War II: Four days after the French government fled Paris,
German forces occupied the French capital, essentially ending the Battle
of France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France>
1985:
The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border
controls between participating European countries, was signed between
five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement>
1994:
After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in ice
hockey's Stanley Cup Finals, a riot ensued in Downtown Vancouver,
causing C$1.1 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vexillology:
The study of flags.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vexillology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and
trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new
light, as a discovered diamond?
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe>
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