Time-travel redux…

I saw in the news that Patrick Stewart is going to act in a new Star Trek series that will follow Captain Picard in his later years. I always thought he was the quintessential Starfleet captain, unlike Kirk, who was just a loose cannon most of the time. However, I just watched (how many times now?) Star Trek IV, arguably the best whale movie ever made (sure beats the hell out of Moby Dick, that boring and awful treatise on how to turn whale blubber into lamp oil). Kirk and his minions were a...