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Has "Star Trek" changed the world? Author Ryan Britt examines a legacy lasting 50 years... and beyond.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: How A Tucson woman made a life-changing transformation through art.

phasers on stun book cover hero “Phasers on Stun: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World,” published by Penguin in 2022.

Arizona Spotlight

June 23, 2022

NPR
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Featured on the June 23rd, 2022 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Meet Maryanne Chisholm, a successful Tucson artist who discovered that passion while serving more than a decade behind bars. Chisholm tells Tony Paniagua how the Prison Arts Program provides inspiration and hope to women living in incarceration.
Prison Art Provoking Face This is part of the painting "Provoking Mephistopheles" by Debra Mounla.
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Prison Art Gray and Red Face This is part of the painting "We Fade to Gray" by Maryanne Chisholm.
Tony Paniagua/AZPM

ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs Fridays at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm, and Saturdays at 5:00 pm, on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.
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