‘Star Trek: Picard,’ cargo cults and the perils of success
The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Picard, Season Three, Episode Two: “Disengage.”Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 movie that arguably saved Star Trek as a going concern. It was a cheap movie, but writer-director Nicholas Meyer made thriftiness a virtue, building a paranoid submarine thriller out of steely glances and…