Sit your ass back down, Kirstie Alley, you had nothing to do with it!
Star Trek canon aside, this movie probably did move the dial on marine protections especially as it applies to whales. The movement to save them had been working for decades, but the amount of public consciousness this movie delivered probably cut a decade or so off the timeline, and that could have been success vs failure.
I grew up in kayaking with humpback whales. This news makes me really happy. I hope more get to experience that now too.
This seems to be either quite old or just talking about the atlantic population. Wikipedia says the global population is around 120.000. Which is amazing, as there where only a couple thousand left when the hunt was banned in the sixties. Just thought that would make you happy to know.
Edit: just noticed who I was answering to, Stamets will probably not even see this…
Good plan, because there is no way George and Gracie could make up a viable breeding population.
Can someone explain this? I’ve not seen tos all the way through
The movie Star Trek 4 was a large contributing factor to public awareness of whaling and other threats to the humpback whale species.
The movie involved time travel, and taking a pair of whales from 1986 to a future where they were already extinct.
If you’re up for watching the movies, I’d recommend 2, 3, 4, and 6. You can skip 1 and 5. 3 is ok, but needed to understand the timeline.
Have you not seen all of tos as the series or movies or both? The movies may be worth a detour in your watching, they don’t give much if anything away of the series and at least half are good, well 2 and 4 for me, I haven’t watched the rest in ages except 1, that one is hit or miss for people but good sci fi. 4 may be odd to get into if you didn’t see 3 is all, I don’t recall the rest as much, haven’t seen them since the 90s.
