Star Trek The Motion Picture: Revisiting the Crew's First Movie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มี.ค. 2023
- In the year 1977 a movie you might have heard of called STAR WARS came out and thoroughly shifted the kind of movies Hollywood considered blockbusters. Up until that time, the idea of an epic sci-fi fantasy grossing hundreds of millions of dollars was considered laughable, and the genre was considered B-movie material at best. Star Wars changed that thinking, and suddenly studios were bending over backwards flooding theaters with their own sci-fi epics. This led to Star Trek getting a crack at the big-screen, with the original crew headlining a movie that, at the time, was one of the most expensive movies ever made. In this episode of Revisited, we dig into Star Trek - The Motion Picture.
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With age comes wisdom. I didn't understand this movie when it came out and I was in 6th grade. In my 50's and this is one of the best sci-fi films of all time. My favorite of TOS films.
I have ALWAYS loved this movie, ever since I first saw it in the theatre in 1979 when I was 13 years old. It is one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, and the only TRULY CLASSIC and EPIC Star Trek film that has ever been made. ST:TMP did for sci-fi films in 1979 what 2001: A Space Odyssey did for sci-fi films in 1968... It presented science fiction as intelligent, thought-provoking, breath-taking, cerebral, character-driven storytelling at its very best (The very "heart" of what the TV series was as well)... ST: TMP was an extraordinary cinematic endeavor... and it was a movie-going EXPERIENCE.
From the visionary brilliance of the great Gene Roddenberry, to the always reliable performances of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, to the impeccable direction of Robert Wise, to the jaw-dropping special effects of Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, to the majestic score of Jerry Goldsmith... It succeeds on every level... Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a CLASSIC and a MASTERPIECE.
Science fiction Film/TV rarely ever gets any better than this, and ST:TMP definitely shares the stage with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The Thing (1951), The Twilight Zone TV Series (1959 - 1964), Star Trek: The Original Series (1966 - 1969), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Planet of the Apes (1968), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Blade Runner (1982), and Return of the Jedi (1983) as being among the greatest, most iconic, groundbreaking science fiction ever made.
And after 43 years, I once again got to see ST: TMP in the theatre when the 2022 Director's Edition was released last year for a limited run... What a thrill it was to see it again in all of its big-screen glory... It was 1979 all over again, and I was that awestruck 13 year old kid again... It felt great!
I love all six Star Trek films with the original cast, but Star Trek: The Motion Picture stands out among the pack... As good as the sequels are, they can NEVER hold a candle to the SCOPE and MAJESTY of the first film, or the way it was CRAFTED... ST:TMP is the VERY DEFINITION of what truly great science fiction filmmaking strives to be... It is cinematic PERFECTION...It is a MASTERPIECE...
Live long and prosper... The Human Adventure is just beginning.
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The small screen video generation generally don't get the pre-home video blockbusters. Sitting in a wide screen cinema, with those cutting edge special effects is a truly immersive experience. I saw it on an early showing on a weekday, plonked dead center and a few rows back from the front; it was one of the best cinematic experiences of my life. It was also REAL science fiction, which they avoided for the most part from then on. The Genesis Trilogy had its high points, but Khan was a boring and disappointing choice of antagonist because he was human - and apparently a bit dumb, despite his allegedly enhanced intelligence. They were mostly a yawn and I only really started enjoying Star Trek movies again with The Voyage Home.
I'm in the minority here, but this is my favorite of the original Star Trek films. The 4k disc looks and sounds incredible, highly recommended for fans of the film
It's my favourite too..
Except for them cutting half the faces off Bones, Kirk and Spock with the new effects.
You are not alone. I too love The Motion Picture greatly.
I love it too but #3 has my ❤
Me too...
The thing I always loved about this movie was (as so many have said) the scale. It captures a sense of insurmountable vastness.
Unlike the modern iterations of Star Trek the ultimate solution to the problem wasn't combat or a tactical advantage. It was the crew's drive for understanding in the face of a total unknown. An indomitable sense of curiosity is what has always drawn me to Star Trek.
Yeah. Seeing the Enterprise being so small compared to V'Ger made this universe look really big.
I really LOVE this movie now. It is still underrated IMO. After all, there would be no Wrath of Khan if not for this visual masterpiece.
This was a longer version of "The Changeling" episode from the series, also my favorite star trek movie
The enterprise has never looked better than in this movie. It's a model with every panel and detail painted by hand to catch the light in special ways, at the time using models and blue screens was really complicated because they didn't have any CGI but everything looks great especially on 4k
The 4K Director's Cut improves it a lot, and it's now one of my favorites of the series.
Small scene changes help with the pacing, along with added scenes filling in some important plot points (like when Spock is found crying at his station later in the movie).
The SFX look beyond gorgeous in a brilliant mixture of the old practical effects and new CGI.
The Atmos mix of the soundtrack is simply epic.
All of these things enhance the main reason people have enjoyed the movie over the years, and it's that TMP is meant to be an experience. You sit down, you relax your mind, and you take in all of that audio/visual beauty while enjoying a story that's as pure sci-fi as it gets.
Star Trek, then and now, has never felt more epic, sprawling, and awe inspiring than it did in this movie.
This is still my favorite Star Trek film - what some see as slow I see as majestic and beautiful.
yes, slow majestic beauty.
Definitely more cerebral.
Same here i always liked it because of the exploration and mystery about it that's what we don't get in any new star trek films today. It's all been a rip of from the wrath of khan like story just like how picard season 3 is doing with their last tv show and so did star trek into darkness they keep on bringing back the same old khan all the time.
Even strange new worlds bringing back reference from khan with a character related to him being now in the show. so i am guessing we're going to have a story down the line about that I don't know about you but it's just getting a bit to much i didn't like the wrath of khan all that much . We need the motion picture style of story back more exploration discoveries and solving the mysteries of space and what's out there and bring back like you said majestic and beautiful back along with the music score to go with it.
City on the Edge of Forever is regarded by fans as one of the best of the original series, and it's slow and cerebral.
It wasn't the fans that disliked the first movie, it was the general public. Unfortunately, they make up a larger part of the audience.
@@knowwhey7559 But now its is regarded up there with the wrath of khan. The motion picture would be a film for today as a star trek film with it beautiful visuals and CGI why they went back and remastered it as it wasn't finished in time and the cost of the film was over budget. Now technology has caught up with how they wanted the film to look. You can see why if it was made today it would of been a true proper trek film story about space exploration and what's out there. But instead what we get today is explosion pew pew and no sweeping shots of the enterprise and any of the iconic music score apart from a few notes or bars that suddenly cuts off to a completely new score that's sounds so jarring it just don't fit in. Music in films today are so bad that don't make them like the used to it just noise nothing is very memorable like star wars music score or superman along with many big films back in the 80' 90' the list will be too long to do.
ST:TMP made the Enterprise an actual member of the cast. Kirk's reaction during the fly around really showed his love of HIS ship.
I'm by no means a ST superfan, and the movie does slog on in places. Definitely not the action-space pew pew that Star Wars and even Galactica plus Buck Rogers were, but there is something singular about the film. It ushered in the film series, and I'm grateful for that. I know "Changeling" is mentioned below as the inspiration, sort of, for this film, but it is a great concept to explore, and still very timely today with AI being used more and more.
As a kid, I rented the movie, and was struck by the Enterprise flyby. One of my favorite points of this "ugh, hours long sequence" is that it was the FIRST time the an Enterprise was shown in all its glory. And, on the big screen. As others have stated, fans got to see the ship up close and with some nice reverence for the first time. Again, I'm not a ST superfan, but that flyby is fucking amazing and this film is a lot better than the reviews make it out to be.
I love this movie and have watched it at the cinema ..and on DVD and Blu-Ray ..and now on glorious 4K.....and I wish it was even longer..
What I love about "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is it gave us one the best sequel films which is The Wrath of Khan.
The 4K directors cut is a masterpiece. In the light of recent Trek like STD has only made the original movies and tv shows shine even brighter.
The Motion Picture is underrated as sci-fi, it's much more like the tv series than the later movies. The second, third and fourth are great cinema but less sci-fi. Say what you like about the Motion Picture, it looks and sounds incredible! The long scene of the shuttle pod approaching the Enterprise is the best example of the model maker's craft and close-up cinematography ever put to film. Star Wars zooms around to hide the seams, this scene lingers to show how flawless the model and the camera work really is. The theme then crowns the whole scene. Only modern CGI can equal it.
I got the chance to see it again in cinema last year and was amazed again.
I consider this a daring movie compared to the sequels which played it safe. I still appreciate them all but hosted a seminar at our film school when this came out with whoever would appear because, as George Takei said, the film was released unfinished. Todd Ramsey, the editor, really gave us the lowdown on how they had to stretch what they had because the score was already written and the missing effects added to the slow pace. Years later I went to a presentation with an effects company that was working on the director's cut. I think most of the team did the special effects for "Babylon 5" and they really got me excited. This movie is profound, perverse and almost as majestic as "2001: A Space Odyssey". That's why I love it.
A terrific flick that had a great story, sci fi excellence, spot on acting and filming.
I love this movie. I love the Enterprise (and especially the flyby), I love Kirk's devotion to the ship, I love Spock's quest for perfect logic, I love how Decker tries to bring back Ilia, I love the futuristic environment, and I love the music! Probably the most realistic of all the Star Trek movies in terms of how it looks and moves.
And go and see it again.
For a lot of us in 1979 we had never seen the Enterprise on a big screen with no static and In living color. It seems gratuitous today but it was the first real look we ever got.
I still remember renting this from my local library when I was like seven. That first scene with the Enterprise was so cool to seven year old me!
TMP is a beautiful, thought-provoking movie.
The older I get the more I absolutely adore this movie. Its ambitious, it has a sense of scale and size none of the other Trek-Films have, and I just straight up "dig its vibes", if you know what I mean. I just like to kick back, relax and get immersed in the visuals, story and excellent music. Also, its visually *beautiful*. I'm in awe at these effects and wonder how some of these shots were accomplished without any CGI. Its a bit like Magic to me.
Also, while all the other Trek-Films match the tone and style, the humor and color and sense of cameraderie of the Series better, I find TMP closest to the Franchises core values related to exploring, seeking out new life and boldly going. It features an Adversary that can't be defeated with violent means so the crew needs their brains (and some bluffing) to overcome it.
I just say it: I like TMP about as much as _The Wrath of Khan..._ albeit for different reasons. Its hard to even compare the two, as they are completely unlike, even though they belong to the same franchise. It like comparing _2001: A Space Odyssey_ to _Star Wars._ Its nearly impossible.
I mostly agree. I was lukewarm on the film when I first saw it in the theater. Over the decades though with multiple more viewings it has grown on me. It is beautiful and conveys a sense of wonder and awe, particularly in the V'ger scenes. I still think Wrath of Khan is a far better film, one of my top 5 favorites, but ST:TMP is good. (So what was a 2/5 film is now a 3/5 film and perhaps 3.5/5 when I'm in a good mood. Khan is a 5/5 film.)
Must be easily entertained.
This film has a epic feel none of the later films have.
I love this film. Saw it the first weekend it came out and was blown away. BTW: Douglas Trumball RIP also did Close Encounters and Blade Runner.
Trumbull spent two weeks in the hospital when his work on the pic was concluded, with ulcers and a hiatial hernia. Trumbull was the director on the troubled pic "Brainstorm". Which Natalie Wood was working on at the time of her death.
This movie was one of those films that was more of an experience than the usual pew pew Star Wars film. It's my personal favourite Star Trek film, and I'll gladly die on this hill.
Star Trek orginal crew were the best. Imagine their adventures & stories with todays visual effects.
Idk sounds too woke
@@matthewmolina2706 have...have you seen the original series?
@@matthewmolina2706 We need more woke if we are going to compete with China. The more woke the better. China just can't keep up with the woke. We are winning the woke. You know the saying? Go woke and you never go broke. Words to live by.
It's not the best but it is my favorite. It feels unique to me whereas a lot of the others in the series, while good, follow a fairly standard film plot.
“It remains an interesting watch?” Much to learn, you still have!
This is first movie I ever remember. I remember lying on the couch when I was 3 and it was on TV. The earliest memory I have. Love it
I actually liked this movie. I think the strength of Star Trek is it leans more on the cerebral than the action. The moral quandaries it posed and the mirror to humanity it can be at times. I don't mind some action in service of the story. I remember watching this think what a cool concept and how much more powerful than the death start the V-ger probe was. But I could also see it being too dull for the average movie goer.
Easily the best movie in the franchise.
Still the best warp drive and photon sequences ever done.
The Klingons vs V'Ger is one of my favorite scenes
It’s a masterpiece. It just is.
I really do enjoy that this is a movie that takes an intellectual approach instead of an action approach. Especially since it is more attuned to the works of writers like Isaac Asimov and Alfred Bester. In fact Asimov was a science consultant on this film,
This movie was surprisingly dark for Star Trek. The sequence with the transporter malfunction was just dark as all hell.
ST:TMP was a very underrated movie. Watching it in 4K now you can really see the vision of Robert Wise & Douglas Trumball. Considering it was released in 1979 & then you look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 2022 & you can see that it's taken a while to produce movie quality to a TV show. When you look at both TMP & SNW they kinda look seamless in quality.
I think this film is closer to Gene Roddenberry’s original vision. The series had two pilots; the first considered “too cerebral,” and I’d imagine a lot of folks would feel this film was also too cerebral.
And I imagine that somewhere down the line, Roddenberry heard that astronauts in our world would generally be more calm and problem-solving types of people. I recently revisited _The Fifty-Year Mission: The Second Twenty-five Years_ by Altman and Gross, and per interviews in that book, many of the writer of _Enterprise_ had a difficult time inserting drama, because A) _Enterprise_ was set closer to the present day and B) real astronauts are trained and trained and trained again to not panic and deal with the problem. An example outside of _Trek_ was invoked: _Apollo 13_ had dramatic bits added, y’know, for the audience to feel these astronauts were more like the audience.
I also want to defend that long loving scene with the _Enterprise_ in _The Motion Picture,_ and I don’t think I’ve heard this defense before. Kirk’s _ Enterprise_ is presented as the pinnacle of Federation technology, and is given a loving long tour. Until this scene, fans were never allowed to admire the _Enterprise_ in that kind of detail.
Then, we encounter the massive V’ger cloud, and the immensity of V’ger itself. Kinda blows the best ship we got out of the water, doesn’t it? Maybe puts us in our place.
Arthur C. Clarke often invoked this quote: “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we _can_ imagine.” (Italics mine.)
What has V’ger seen? How far did it evolve?
And the scene where _Enterprise_ enters and explores the V’ger cloud is easily my favorite scene in the film. I probably wore out my old VHS recording, watching that slow mysterious space mystery train ride again and again. I’d never seen anything like it up to that time, and it was like, “Wow, what _is_ this?!”
DS9 started with an action scene and had a firefight finale. Not a huge action piece compared to today's standards but for the time in Trek which was mostly devoid of any action, DS9's pilot was action packed!
Maybe the first 30 minutes, but you gotta admit, it really slowed down with all the Prophet stuff and talking about linear time, even with all the action going on with the station.
@@artboymoy They made up for it later in the show with the Dominion War.
Love _TMP._ Immersive, beautiful, operatic, mature, cerebral, wholly unique, & widely misunderstood, _TMP_ is a hard sci-fi/gothic horror film directed by a guy who made hard sci-fi/gothic horror films. There's alot of _The Andromeda Strain_ & _The Haunting_ in it.
It wasn't the _Star Trek_ movie that fans wanted, but it's the _Star Trek_ movie the franchise needed. In 1979, _TMP_ could have easily been campy like _Flash Gordon_ and _TOS._
And it's precisely what interstellar travel & first contact would be like: long hours staring at a screen into the void, accidents happen, people get killed, & it would be a journey into existential crisis.
Another great move that combines science, religion and horror. An awesome film score composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith.
You could argue that this is the most Star Trek of all the Star Trek films. Star Trek was never about action and space battles, much as I love Star Trek 2.
It's slow moving, but I could watch Kirk and Scotty fly around the Enterprise for 2 hours. The ships, the new Klingons, and the score are bright spots for sure.
I love this movie deeply. I also understand all the criticism and acknowledge they are valid. But I continue loving this 40 years after my first viewing. I think it is probably because they managed to make something that felt like a real place you could go to.
I love The Motion Picture. Pure science fiction, pure Trek
If you’re going to criticize some thing while offering details, please get your details right. Robert Wise did not replace most of the visual effects in this film with CGI; most of the shots you see were done back in the 70s. He cleaned some shots up and created a very small number of new ones that were originally story boarded, but never produced.
The Motion Picture is the BEST Trek film of all time, it's not for people with a short attention span. This film is pure science fiction and pure Star Trek.
This is my favorite Trek film. It tries to be more than just a villain getting mad at the crew for whatever reason, the effects are absolutely stunning, even today, and the soundtrack is perfect. I'd say the only issue I have with it is the cast is underutilized (as was pointed out in this video). It has it's issues, but overall this is a great film.
I seriously miss the quiet, adventurous and cerebral “Star Trek” depicted in this film.
We owned a big movie theatre when this picture came out, and I remember opening weekend crowds applauding wildly at the beginning and the end. Reception softened in the following weeks, but it certainly had the feel of an "A" level show in its early days of release. Its reputation for being completed right up until release are not exaggerated: our print came via armed courier directly from the lab, arriving to our theatre about a half hour after the first show was scheduled to begin. My father's announcement to the patrons only added to the excitement and anticipation.
Now I heard that Paramount shipped the movie to theaters still wet. Do you happen to remember getting the reels? I'm just curious on this.
@@mainstreetsaint36 Funny that you say that. Yes, I remember our projectionist saying exactly that about this film. At the time, I thought he was just joking!
The effects work on the Enterprise still hold up. Those were done by Douglas Trumbull on 65mm negative. The stuff done by John Dykstra was done on Vistavision. Both were restored from the negative and seen in the best quality ever on the Directors Cut that was restored in 4K. Just wish they hadn't done the modern color timing, the Atmos mix or used digital noise reduction. I understand why they did though they wanted to make it like a new movie.
I've always liked that movie, and so did everyone else until the Internet, IIRC.
Robert Wise was a top-notch filmmaker, who'd also made _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ [1951], and _The Andromeda Strain_ [1971], both of which remain monumental Sci-Fi masterworks in film.
It owes more to Kubrick's _2001: A Space Odyssey_ than to _Star Wars,_ but that never disappointed me.
It's a great 10 of 10 star film, that would be truly surpassed by its (first) sequel.
This one has the best visual effects of all TOS movies 🖖
Star Trek : The Motion Picture is a film that I still love , Its not my top ST film (Genesis Trilogy TOP of all time) but its one that I love to turn on on a Sunday Lazy afternoon and zone out .
This is my favorite Star Trek. Also favorite for my kids - teens! I bought the new Complete Adventure 4K set of the DE simply to get the 4K special longer version (where they even fix the scene with Kirk exiting the airlock!) I appreciate the work done for the DE but the SLV is the ultimate for me. The original FX by Trumbull still superior to any cgi version today.
Buck Rogers as a character existed long before star wars
Most certainly. Decades before. Movies and tv. So did Flash Gordon. So did Joe Biden.
The only thing that stands up is the score...???!!! Really...???!!! This film is a masterpiece and it stands up in so many ways!!! The effects themselves are a wonder!!! The story concept is amazing!!! It has grown on me over the years and is now my favorite Trek film. I can watch it over and over.
Great film. I've always loved it.
Excellent video Chris Brumbray, but I must say some of your criticisms against "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" seem to stem from your own bias to which there's nothing wrong with that, to each their own.
But, you might be surprised to find how many people really enjoy the first Star Trek movie, I know I'm one of them. The Motion Picture is the textbook example of fine wine. It just keeps getting better with age.
Contrary to what you stated in the video, Paramount wasn't oblivious to what makes a good Star Trek movie. I commend Paramount and Robert Wise for not trying to follow Star Wars lead and give us the good versus evil narrative that so many other sci-fi/fantasy films of that era (looking at you "Krull" and "Battle Beyond The Stars") were trying to do and failed miserably.
No, instead, Paramount decided to give us a more thought-provoking sci-fi film, which the last time I checked was in keeping with what Star Trek is about.
If anyone is oblivious to what makes a good Star Trek movie, it's that guy who has the 10th letter of the alphabet twice as his first name.
I liked it but it was a slow-burn type of film. Loved the flyby and Kirk's face when looking over the Enterprise.
I seen Battlestar Galactica in theaters. They had a special sound system for it. I want to say it was called Sensurround but I could easily be wrong. Basically they have huge subwoofers so all the explosions and such you pretty much could feel in your body. I also still remember seeing the early commercials for Battlestar and even as a kid my thinking was literally "COOOL!! It's like Star Wars ... but for TV!!!"
I enjoyed watching Star Trek The Motion picture it was like the beginning, It showed a Starship the grew into something we all loved seeing in the movies!!!
One bit you missed. When Star Wars hit it big, Paramount's initial response was, "Forget it, we've missed our shot" and were about to pull the plug on the whole thing. Then Close Encounters of the Third Kind became just about as big a hit as Star Wars, showing that sci fi fans WILL come out and see more than one big movie a year, and it was back on, full speed ahead (which also played into the runaway budget).
This is my favorite movie out of the series.
This one is proper sci fi, The most grown up of all the ST films. As a liitle kid back at the time when it came out i thought it was not very good as i was expecting more Star Wars action but now i'm much older i much prefer this to the endless Shoot em up's. Great film.
I disagree with the Director's Cut replacing the old effects with CGI. A few were cleaned up, sure, but by far the most CGI was to ADD a few scenes to the movie that they were unable to originally film for whatever reason (ie - the cloud dissipating while V'Ger approaches Earth and shots of the V'Ger craft shooting the plasma energy bolts into Earth orbit). Other CGI shots allowed some bad Matte paintings to be fixed, and to complete some half-finished shots. By far, most of the practical effects used in the film remain as they were.
Star Wars, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Alien were amongst the last of the pre-CGI effects driven films, and it shows on the film. Every few years, new CGI comes out and makes yesterday's "Wow!" effects look dated, but the model work in these films holds up flawlessly and as a result, they don't really look dated. ST:TMP in particular was and remains a gorgeously shot film, and the Director's Cut really just completed the post-production work that should always have been done. The new CG work they added was just icing on the cake.
Yeah, whenever people take a stab at doing it, they really try to emulate what made those shots look great. And IMO, TMP still has the best warp speed VFX.
A little tidbit.
You actually see VGER before the enterprise enters the final chamber.
When Spock is “shocked “ by the sensor in thruster suit it’s one of the images flashed on the screen along with a Klingon, and Spock receiving the Kohlinar
I think that you misrepresent the movie a bit. There is a focus on Decker and Illa, as the later is taken by V'ger and replaced by a probe in her image, and Decker is called upon to try to reach out to whatever of his former love may still live within the probe for information.
But at the same time, Kirk, who's found himself promoted out of command and is unhappy in his desk job, jumps at the chance to take back the Enterprise and lead the mission to confront V'Ger, while struggling with a midlife crisis that will define him thru all the classic Star Trek movies and even into Generations.
But Spock is the one who really shines. Throughout the original series we'd seen him struggle with his half-vulcan/half-human nature. As TMP begins, Spock is undergoing a ritual that will strip him of the last of his emotions and hopefully bring him peace. Only to be touched by V'Ger and sense that despite it's own powerful logic, it yearns for more. So, he joins the crew in their mission to V'Ger in hopes of finding his own answers.
This is SUCH an important development for the character of Spock. Because he does find his answer, it's just not the one he ever expected. Spock realizes he NEEDS his human half, and thus makes peace with himself, and finally feels comfortable with who he is, rather than who anyone thinks he should be. And this would define the character in all the later Star Trek movies and TV shows he appeared in.
I've always loved this movie. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it's far from bad.
Possibly the best scifi movie ever made. Most certainly the best Star Trek movie.
A JoBlo Retrospective video on Sunday is a nice treat.
Will perhaps be a new thing depending on the response!
I love Star Trek the motion picture. And thank goodness it didn’t feature a villain. As much as I love Wrath of Khan I feel it did a huge disservice to Star Trek because that essentially what every subsequent Trek film became. Villain with a doomsday weapon.
I'm not a Trekkie, but as a Gen X'r, who grew up on Star Trek re-runs in the 70's/80's, I always liked this movie. It's closer to the sometimes thoughtful story telling style of the original series. It was surpassed by the Wrath of Khan (a terrific film) but really most of the other Star Trek movies haven't been great or genuinely authentic to the story telling style original series - which was basically to set up a philosophical dilemma or conundrum and then solve it by unexpected means.
I will always find it confusing, and a bit funny, that people LOVE 2001 and think Star Trek:TMP is a slow boring slog... They're very similarly paced films. I've always unapologetically loved this movie.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is not slow. It's just not in a hurry. The people that don't like it have been fed seizure inducing quick cut edited pictures for so long that they can't enjoy this.
Over all I liked it. It was the one film that stayed pretty true to the source material.
Oh wow.... had no idea so many disliked the first film. I actually LOVE the first film. There's literally nothing else like it. My favorites are III and VI ( I obviously love II as well). Huh.... interesting.
I totally want to see Zon make an appearance in ST: Strange Worlds. That’d be a fan deep cut for sure.
Wouldn't he be a little young? Either that or he was up there in the years.
The video claims that most of the special effects were replaced with CGI for the Director's Edition, but this is not true. There were a few shots replaced entirely by CGI, and a few put in where there had previously been no effects shot made - the arrival at the centre of Vger is the major one. But otherwise, Trumball and Dykstra's work remains largely intact, and to my mind represents some of the finest movie minature work ever put on film.
I went from "who's Stephen Collins?" to "oh THAAAAT Stephen Collins."
Yep
I can appreciate that. But at least he never voted Republican. That would be unforgivable!
Needs the big screen !
TMP is an acquired taste for the most discerning of Star Trek fans, a connoisseur of all things Trek, if you will.
One thing about TOS "only 3 seasons" is that it doesn't really mean much. The episodes were much longer and the # of episodes per season much higher than what is seen today.
Great 👍 work!!
Hopefully you're going to do all the Trek films, TNG and Abrams ones aswell
We intend to depending on the response. A few of us here are old-school Trekkies.
I enjoy the Motion Picture, albeit on a different level. It treated the characters with respect, and tried to tell a deeper story than the Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica (70's) franchises.
Of course, I was old enough to remember, and to have been a fan of, the Original Series, and had been frustrated with the frequent stories of "movies in development", so I was naturally excited when TMP was finally confirmed.
Robert Wise became my favourite film director, following 'Andromeda Strain', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' and Star Trek TMP
major mistake in your video, Star Trek the motion picture was already on the drawing board prior to the release of Star Wars. They did throw a lot more money at the movie and did tons of special effects reshoots after its huge box office though.
The movie's story was quite thought provoking.
The refit ship was pretty sweet too...
"The Encounter at Farpoint" criticism is warranted, but I've never heard that complaint about "The Emissary," often held up at the best Trek pilot. The episode wonderfully introduced the characters and set up many plot points the show carried through (Kira's antipathy towards the Federation, Sisko's pain at losing his wife, Odo's desire to find his origins, the Cardassians wanting the station back, the tension between O'Brien and Keiko over him taking the assignment, etc.) the entire series.
My dad was a huge fan of the original series and watched it in reruns all the time. So he was quite excited to take the whole family to the movies when it came. And given that me and my sibling were under 10, taking us to the movies was a big deal and probably tight on the budget. Anyhow, although I don't remember my dad ever saying anything in particular, we never went to the theater to see the Wrath of Khan, and I'm certain that was due to the first movie being so dull. Obviously we did see Khan at some point because my dad never missed another Star Trek movie in the theater again.
@Sprocket List 🇬🇧 Yeah, I am grateful my dad introduced me to Star Trek. The shows and movies have brought so much joy into my life!
I saw this movie opening night with my dad who was an OG trekker. It will always be my favorite. I know Khan is better and I do enjoy it too but TMP will always be the top spot for me.
Most of the visual effects for the Director's cut were NOT redone with cgi.
Always had a very very massive soft spot for this. It gets criticized for being a 2001 Space Odyssey clone but I've always argue that's part of the charm of it.
It takes the love of humanity that the show always strived for while battling it out with the cold clinical tone of said film, and in the end you get a film that in a weird way argues how it's people who matter in the end.
And the special effects are amazing. I mean hey it gets compared to 2001 for a reason
Like the other Star Trek films but none of them with maybe the exception of Star Trek 2, 3 & 6 ever really did it for me like Motion Picture did in terms of asking thought provoking questions.
Seriously need to finally get the 4K because it's the only one that finally also has the VHS TV cut that I grew up on.
Your choice of wording is spots on, I too would describe my feelings for this film as having a “soft spot”. I can see all the flaws, but gosh darn it, I enjoy it. It’s not my favorite of the film series, but it has a vibe that is unique to any of the films
I loved "Tales of The Gold Monkey". I owned a wood carved Cutter's Goose. After I read about his admission of sexual assault, I broke the Gutter's Goose into parts and threw it away. I had yet to buy ToTGM on DVD, so I was able to not have wasted that money.
I cannot agree. I realize Collins has issues and done some things wrong. But I still enjoy this movie, his performance and Tales of the Gold Monkey.
@@trhansen3244 OK. Good for you. I can not, with a clear conscience, support someone who engages in the sexual assault of minors. But, hey, that's me. You be who you are. I only wonder if you'd support this pedophile if you personally knew one of his victims? I'll leave you to your ToTGM DVDs and your Michael Jackson CD collection.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 There are more people involved with those projects than just Collins. I can think of them, too.
@@trhansen3244 Agreed, but when he's the main character, as much as I might like the other actors / characters, I can't get past his sick behavior. It only takes one to screw it up for everyone else.
The directors cut of this movie, which is now the official version, is not goal in anyway. His intention was to create a space Odyssey not unlike 2001. The characters were stolen selves, but were clearly older and more in different places in their lives. The spectacle is phenomenal and not enough can ever be sad about the score.
I guess I am one of the odd ones who love this movie. I have said it before and I will say it again. The main problem was that Paramount released a _Science Fiction_ movie when everyone was expecting another _Space Fantasy_ or if you will a hero's journey set in space. That's not a knock on Star Wars, they are just 2 different things. I even think the 'boring' parts were needed to give the impression that space is both beautiful and dangerous in equal measure.
I appreciate Star Trek The Motion Picture more as an adult than I did growing up. The plot isn't as exciting as The Wrath of Khan, but the visuals alone make it worth watching. Think 2001 A Space Odyssey, only it's a Star Trek film!
The only truly epic Star Trek movie. Also, it made more money that STII. The last time a fully powered, fully crewed USS Enterprise met the unknown. As underrated as the Wrath of Khan is overrated.
Adjusted for inflation, Star Trek: The Motion Picture cost a cool $180 million.
I always liked it maybe because as a kid that first movie took itself so seriously .. it was a good launch but the second was definitely more of an space action movie
I love TMP for its epic vision.
I love Wrath of Khan for its thrills and submarine warfare.
I love voyage Home for the comic touches and time travel.
I REALLY love Star Trek 5 because despite its flaws, it FEELS like a true TOS episode and has emotional highs and McCoy’s best scene ever.
McCoy's revelation regarding his father's death wrecked me (still does to this day).
Stephen Collins (Captain/Commander Willard Decker)
On October 7, 2014, the New York City Police Department began investigating Collins after an audio tape leaked to the media revealed a male voice, purported to be that of Collins, admitting to past sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 14.[17]
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson stated that Collins had been investigated by the department in 2012 after receiving a claim from 18 years earlier regarding sexual abuse. The LAPD further stated that its investigation did not allow it to "substantiate the allegation" against Collins.[23][24]
In a December 2014 interview with People, Collins admitted that he committed "inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors" in 1973, 1982, and 1994