Ending A Reagan-Era Trilogy In 1986

February 27, 2026 by • Books, Destruction, Entertainment, History, Self-Improvement, Success, Television, The NFL • 0 Comments

Different Needs For A Starship

NICHOLAS MEYER’S SUCCESS FROM 1982 THRU 1986

  • Directing the first of the trilogy
  • The Day After (the Super Bowl since 2020)
  • Co-writing the trilogy’s most successful entry

NICHOLAS MEYER & OG MANDINO vs HAROLD ROBBINS & JACQUELIN SUSANN

  • “Ah, the giants.” –words co-written by Nicholas Meyer, mocking two authors mentioned by Og Mandino in 1975 in relations to his book from 1968
  • The Greatest Miracle In The World from 1975…& The God Memorandum
  • The Greatest Salesman In The World from 1968…& The Ten Scrolls

SCIENCE-FICTION CONCEPTS USED WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE VOYAGE HOME

  • Time travel in Back To The Future (the year before)
  • Interplanetary travel in Aliens (earlier that year)
  • Teleportation in The Fly (earlier that year)
  • Cloaking in Predator (the following year)

KEY EVENTS IN 1986

  • NASA was warned
  • History’s dumbest tests at Chernobyl
  • Two dreadful sequels from movie franchises with critical scenes involving a motel
  • Two other movie franchises with dreadful sequels after success in 1986