120 Things You Didn't Know About The Star Trek Movies
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A lot of people fail to recognize that Kirk's fly-around of the Enterprise in STTMP was that it was a huge animated thank you card from Gene Roddenberry to THE FANS. Of all the things most Star Trek fans had fantasized about during the long years of waiting for SOMETHNG Star Trek was the appearance of the Enterprise with a real budget and modern special effects. I remember very clearly getting a huge lump in my throat when that full crescendo of music reveals the full view of the Enterprise. It was like a dream come true that I'll NEVER forget.
Yes.
Christopher Lloyd played one of the best Klingons ever to take the screen. Gowron will always be the most Klingon Klingon in my eyes, but Lloyd's energy and the way his character leans into his more Klingon moments with such enthusiasm really helped my immersion in the spirit of Trek and helped me understand the Klingons more as "people" and less as writing devices or stock antagonists.
Both statements are so true!
Can we all just agree that David Warner and Christopher Plummer simply chewed up the scenery in every bit of screen time that they had?
If you haven't already I highly recommend that you play the game "Klingon Academy "
It's a prequel to The undiscovered country and has them reprise their roles.
It's brilliant.
Several things led me to be a software engineer. One was an invitation from Harold Livingston, a friend of my father, to visit the Star Trek, the motion picture, sets on the Paramount Lot. They were filming the V’Ger probe scene on the bridge set. In the scene V’Ger sends a probe to scan the Enterprise. The probe was a standard 2 x 4 wood beam with a bunch of strobe lights attached up-and-down. A thick electrical cable ran from the bottom of the beam off the set to the right of the bridge’s view port. A single man sat in front of a mini-computer with a 102 style green terminal. When they were ready to shoot the director would call “Probe on” and the man would type a single key on the terminal keyboard. The strobes would start flashing. I was 16 and already wrote software for mini-computers. I asked the man about the rig. He outfitted a sensor on the film camera to know when the shutter was at its most open position as each frame went through. At that instant his program triggered one of the strobe lights to flash. The effect in the movie gives the probe a brighter-than-white glowing look. The man told me he was hired and was making an income from writing the software problem to make the effect work. This was the first person to show me I could have a career working with software. This was 1978. -Frank Cohen
Harold complimented Nimoy for helping him to understand the character motivations. He apologized for not taking me around the stages, he told me he was typing the script at times 1 hour ahead of what they were shooting. So instead he dropped me into one of the sound stages and I got to wonder. I was on the engineering set which was under dust covers, feeling that I shouldn't be there, and Nimoy in full character was going over his lines walked in. He looked completely real. He didn't notice me and kept walking. It felt magical. -Frank
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At a convention around 1987 in NH, Walter was the guest. He explained that Chekov was in the bathroom when Kahn needed to go. When he came out, Kahn said he would remember him.
I hope I not repeating myself. anyways, I was born in '66 and was fortunate to have parents that loved Trek.
financially we would've been considered "poor". so going to the movies was a big deal for me. (especially around Christmas.) my dad took me to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture in it's second week. I even remember the theater we went to. since then I've seen every Trek movie in theaters. I'm glad mom and dad exposed Trek to me. thanks mom and dad.
Star trek The Motion Picture is still to this day one of my favourite Star Trek movies
It's certainly better than the reboots.
@@Zooumberg I even prefer it to Star Trek II personally
My least favourite by far, but I do enjoy seeing it get some love.
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Trek 2009 is better than any other Trek film... except maybe The Undiscovered Country.
Is it because it never ends?
The Wrath of Khan is still my favourite, but The Voyage Home is a close second for me.
Agreed!
Agree
53:00 The design of the Reliant was supposed to be inverted from what we know it as, with the nacelles on top like the other ships. One of the supervisors not knowing what he was doing held it upside down and said he liked the different design and that accidental change stuck. *edit: spelling
Jane Wiedlin was the rhythm guitarist in the GoGos, not the lead singer.
She should have been allowed to sing lead more.
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Plus, they were New Wave, not Punk
"The movie was bugeted at 400% less than its predecessor". You can't go below *100%* less... You mean "a quarter the budget of its predecessor".
This video had to take a mountain of data and work it out. You all at Trek Culture deserve a standing ovation on this effort. I as a die hard Trek Fan was fully engrossed in this video. Bravo to Trek Culture!!!
Thanks for putting this all together! Perfect timing as my husband and I have been rewatching all the films, so now I have fun facts to spew as we do. We have trouble finding media we both like, but we both love Star Trek!
Literally LOL’d at “Sends Sulu for sushi”, as it is so obviously a misdirection
I'm a former aircraft engineer on harriers, I was screaming at my tv over the imperial sockets and especially a decent quarter inch ratchet. No toolkit of mine would not have the ratchet. I liked the video and will subscribe. 👍
This 2 hour video only covers the 120 things about the Star Trek The Original Series movies , not counting The Next Generations movies or Kelvin Timeline movies which I still waiting for 20 things I didn't know about Star Trek movies of Kelvin Timeline though it would be more difficult to search many infos and details on these movies compared with TOS & TNG era movies , I appreciate TrekCulture's effort of putting these videos I do enjoyed it
The only thing to know about the Kelvin Timeline movies is, "Don't bother."
'Star Trek - The Motion Picture' was released when I was 12 years old, so I found it very boring when I first saw it, but it has risen a lot for me as I have gotten older. I still think that 'Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan' is the best 'Star Trek' film.
.....you missed da Targetttt! - kirk
I still love the warp drive effect from TMP. That is one effect I think they should have kept through the franchise.
The whole Ceti Alpha 5 and 6 thing does not wash. They would have had maps and known a planet was missing as soon as the entered the system. They had theat ability back in the Doomsday Machine, why not now?
The Enterprise reveal is still my top entry for ship reveals in Sci-Fi. The music, the slow build, it just works so well. Goosebumps everytime. The Enterprise D is now a close second though.
This video presentation is like a whole book. Your research and presentation is top notch. Congrats! I'm not sure I can watch it all in one sitting, but I will keep coming back to it for a long time.
When ST3 came out I have never seen 1 or 2 at the cinema. My local cinema did a tripple show of all three back to back. It was a REALLY special occation for me as I was 11 and was quite restricted on what time I was supposed to go to bed at. This thing started at 6pm and just kept going. I was very confused about ST1 as it was so slow, in later years I appreciated it. ST2 was just AMAZING! And then we got to the new release ST3 and I was sat there going, it's good, but can I watched ST2 again?
You, young man, do what you do wonderfully. Keep up the excellent work bringing goodies to trek lovers, even us elderly ones. And even if we don’t agree with you. It is all perspective anyway, and we all have our own.
My heart broke and cried like a baby when they killed Spock. After I calmed down ( stopped crying) I was mad, so mad that they killed my favorite character.
I remember a very similar reaction. These characters have become "dear friends" to us.
Patrick Stewart in a Members Only jacket is so 1989.
THANK YOU for agreeing with me! I was worried for a minute that I was the only one who remembered.
Best 2ish hours I've spent in a long time. Most videos that would cover this material would not have the depth of research and would feel more click-baity. This is the real deal--well done!
Personally, I love "Star Trek:The Motion Picture" - not perfect, but it manages to be an amazing science fiction film regardless. If they'd had more of the typical character dynamics we'd come to expect from the classic crew, it'd be a perfect example of the more cerebral side of Trek. In an age where science fiction was over-represented by space fantasy instead, I find it refreshing to have something more than just lasers, robots and battles. And damn, the Enterprise never looked better.
I started watching TOS at age 13! During the height of the Vietnam War, seeing dead soldiers & those wounded, NIGHTLY, Star Trek was an escape to the future of koom-biya, acceptance, no money,no War, no hostility WAS VERY IMPORTANT !!! Seeing a future of true peace was wonderful during those years. My brother just came home last year after 53 years in 'Nam. That's why he was ADAMANT about militarism...
The problem I have with people calling the motion picture boring is that is was 10x the pace of any TOS episode. I have tried to sit and binge watch them and one 48 minute episode feels like 4 hours. Seriously, each episode has a 45 second slow zoom on a character's face to mimic "drama".
Its reallyyyy slow. WOK was faster paced!
Absolutely fantastic job doing this. Well done guys. Have only watched part of it and already loving it.
In the German version of TOS the "space the final frontier" of the intro had a year attached. "[...] wir schreiben das Jahr 2200" (it's the year 2200)
It was accually 2245.
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@@keit99 fair enough. I think we're not in a position to quibble over a few decades.
No offense to Majell, but Jess Bush is the quintessential Christine Chapel for me.
I’m only 26 minutes in but I was at a convention in Virginia Brach where they introduced the trailer without theme or special effects. As we watched the Enterprise leaving space dock surrounded by prop masters and special effects people. People started humming the theme to accompany the video.
The original pilot with Geoffery Hunter was the Cage which the Menagerie used clips from . The Menagerie is the episode with Pike in the chair and Spock on trial
Exactly. I explained to someone last week who didn't even know the pilot existed that he missed out (he's in his late 50s and early 60s, so I told him where to find the original pilot "The Cage"). I also explained where that footage came from for the court martial. I sent him off to go find the footage and I'll hear from him tomorrow.
During the pitching phase it was known as 'The Menagerie'. 121.
You did it! The majority of this was indeed new to me. Very long video but the time flew by. Great job!!!
I'm glad you brought up the 22nd vs. 23rd Century thing. You are right in saying that Roddenberry left the time frame for TOS ambiguous. However I've been saying for years that TOS took place in the 22nd Century and not the 23rd. All you have to do is listen to the dialogue in several episodes. Here's a few examples:
-Scotty says that Abraham Lincoln has been dead for three centuries. We all know Lincoln died in 1865. I think this is the most obvious example that TOS took place in the 22nd Century.
-Kirk tell Khan that he has been asleep for two centuries. In other dialogue it's stated that Khan was supreme ruler of 1/4 of the earth from 1991 to 1996 (I think those are the correct dates).
-When they go back in time to remove the evidence that Capt. Christopher gathered on them the Air Force Sgt. tell's Kirk he's going to lock him up for 200 years. Kirk's reply? "That ought to be just about right."
-Flint gives his year of birth as 3834 BC. Spock tells Kirk that Flint's age is "on the order of 6000 years." Add 6000 years to 3834 BC and you get the year 2166. I know Spock said "on the order of" meaning he couldn't be precise, but even if he was off by a decade or two that still places that episode squarely in the late 22nd Century.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more.
As for the title card at the beginning of Star Trek II that says "In the 23rd Century" it's likely that the movie took place in the first or second decade of the 23rd Century, not in the 2280's as the official chronology suggests.
In all fairness, the budget of TMP was not really as high as reported. They just rolled in all the development costs of the Star Trek Phase 2 into the budget.
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WOW! I'm at the Star Trek II part of this video now and already have to pause and comment. WELL DONE SIR! Informative, insightful, and as Spock might say..."Fascinating". I must admit, I'm a Scotty fan, having built and repaired ships and subs as a shipyard machinist years ago, so I know what hardship and crap engineers have to deal with...reversing the polarity and all of that. Grew up watching the original show in the 60's, and re-runs in the 70's, movies, subsequent TV series, and I still absolutely love it! I just subscribed to your channel, so keep up the great work!
I was an enthusiastic fan of Star Trek as a kid in the 60's. ....Me and all the kids in my elementary grade level. I think a lot of the appeal of the show was that Star Trek went way beyond the usual space themes at the time : the universe was populated and organized with well known, (anthropomorphic), civilizations and empires that interacted regularly, but space was still big enough that finding new alien stuff was also pretty common; it was the mission of the Enterprise to do that, after all. I think a lot of the show's appeal WAS the Enterprise: it was huge-literally a flying city- it was pretty- people now probably don't appreciate now how unique the design was for its time. We were in the middle of the race to the moon, so we were used to 1-2 astronauts crammed into a "capsule". The Enterprise glided around with smooth magnificence when it wasn't doing "warp speed". No one even questioned WHY it had to bank when it orbited a planet- it just really looked good. We all unreservedly loved the Enterprise.
The main characters were also a draw. The Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate with Scotty, Urura, Chekov , Nurse Chapel and Sulu orbiting it had more charisma and chemistry than the casts of most TV shows and the writers used them well. To this day you can mention those names and people know who you're talking about.
But then it ended despite all of the fan petitions sent to NBC. And back then, when it was gone it was GONE. There was no VHS or DVD, no personal computers, no digital files of the episodes and no internet from which to download them. A few people had tape recorded audio of the episodes when they were broadcast. Then came books, fan fiction and conventions. It's not surprising that the 1979 movie was well attended. Star Trek had been missed by many.
But- it was a disappointment in a lot of ways. I didn't like Spock being grumpy and I didn't care what made him that way.
I wanted cool, dry-humor Spock.
The interiors of the Enterprise were too different from the original. Wasted dollars.
I didn't care about the bald lady or her boyfriend. That was fluff.
The V-ger thing was cool, but then they did it to death...and beyond.
Flogging Kirk's advancing age was pointless and annoying.
However, Kirk's fly-by around the Enterprise at the dock was lovely, especially considering that the original series had established that he loved her.
The whiz-bang shift to warp speed was cool and a little scary. No wonder they kept using it subsequently to the point of it becoming canon.
The special effects were top notch for that time
The score was really good. The "yay us" optimism and energy of the main theme was consistent with.the mood of original Star Trek.
Finally, I think that it was nostalgia that ultimately drove fan acceptance of Star Trek: The Movie.
I remember that at the time, if someone asked me what I thought of the film, my answer was always:
" It was good to see the Enterprise again."
1:39:22 According to IMDB state that Layla Sarakalo happened upon the set from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) when her car was towed away to make room for the film's production. Sarakalo offered to be an extra so that she could make money to get her car back.
Motion Picture: The 2022 version is very different from the 2001 version of the Director's Edition. No-one seems even remotely aware of the 2022 version. Covid royalty f-d up the releases of this re-release, eventually being a direct to streaming release.
I love all the original Star Trek movies, even 5, i think its a bit underrated yes its got some issues (Effects, Turbo Lift numbers lol) but it still better than most of the Trek we get now.
Brilliant! 🙌 so much new info.
Changing playback speed to
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Judson Scott also had a notable run on General Hospital, a show which has featured Star Trek actors going all the way back to its first episode in 1963.
EVERYONE should read Kim Katrell's interviews following her appearance in VI. Her comments demonstrate that she's not only a fan's fan when it comes to Trek, but she's also tremendously insightful, spotting the importance of her character's details and how they serve to make her more identifiable as belonging in Trek despite this being her first appearance in it.
I found her portrayal of a Vulcan most....illogical. There was simply too much emotion in her performance. No matter how many times both she and others would profess how much of a Vulcan she was, there were far too many emotional moments for the sake of drama. I would have easily taken her for an undercover Romulan; one of potentially many sewing the seeds of corruption between the Klingons and Federation.
There is just something special about TMP that many films lack, even with its flaws, but UC will always be my favourite, because it's the only one that really shows the crew striving to live up to the ethos of starfleet and the federation, of being better and of moving past their bigotry and shortcomings. 1 isn't even really about the crew, 2 is a revenge story, 3 is a treasure hunt, 4 is mostly wacky fun (and my second favourite) and 5 is a hostage story more than anything, but 6 is a story about making yourself better and about actually practicing what you preach.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of the greatest films I've ever seen - across all genres! It's brilliant, thoughtful, beautiful and timely!
@7Zark7-ez1gw Hahaa!! Yep! The Dead and Star Trek -it's hard to go wrong with either (although both have suffered in their later incarnations...
The motionless picture does have a fantastic soundtrack. Of course, everybody that knows film and TV music knows that. The opening credits start with the larger than life orchestral title score that eventually becomes the basis for the beloved TNG theme. Then the theme behind the Klingon’s opening battle (if you can even call it a battle) is gripping from the start and pulls you right in… Into an underwhelming film, yes, but at least music never disappoints.
Soundtrack is possibly the best and it's beautiful visually. It feels very much like 2001 A Space Odyssey but Trek.
@1:33:12 Jane Wiedlin was not the Lead Singer of the Go Gos. That Role was done by Belinda Carlisle.
The tag line, "A 23rd Century Odyssey Now" is in desperate need of a comma before the "now".
Absolutely love the Harlan Ellison reference.
There is some excellent history between Ellison and Roddenberry.
check it out.
Always remembered the happy meal boxes! Loved it
I'm sure I've watched parts of this, but my memory sucks, so it's all new to me. You somehow found fun factoids I did not know after a lifetime of fandom. Thank you for putting it all together!
Thank you for making this video, I am a massive Trekkie and I learned a LOT of things I never knew. I compliment your do dilligence and research.
I find it interesting and funny how many actors keep coming back around. Hadn't noticed the actor that played admiral Cartwright also played Mr Sisko.
I can understand Rodenberry not liking his stuff changed, but Star Fleet is more or less a space Navy, it's already militaristic at its core.
Well done ..absolutely brilliant .. you have done unbelievable research ..keep the videos coming ...live long and prosper trek culture
Love this long video, downloading to watch (listen to) on my phone while out and about
I have to say, Roddenberry's inputs on ST2 were very good. The mix of Bennett and Roddenberry's inclinations seems to have been a very good balance together.
The term, "Script Girl" has been replaced with, "Script Supervisor". However "Best Boy" is still in use today.
In one of the novels featuring Saavik, her emotional outbursts and seemingly unvulcan character notes are attributed to both her half Romulan heritage as well as a desperate and feral childhood spent surviving the wild outskirts of The Galactic Planet of Peace, the same planet that is featured in the first act of Star Trek V.
I hated that they replaced her from Christy Alley (wrong spelling I'm sure) then took away her emotions. Not only a tear at Spock's funeral but in the novel she had feelings for David. She cried when he was killed but was emotionally dead in the movie when she reported his death to Kirk.
This is a fabulous piece, thank you! I do feel a need to note that one quarter of the previous budget is 75% less, not 400% less. That's just my brain being itchy on the point, though, I see how much work you put into this and I appreciate it!
59:47: Loved the edit making it look as if Scott was pointing out his lack of credits to a sceptical Montalban
13:30 Ilya was stunning!
You state the DeForrest Kelley's last appearance in the Star Trek Franchise was Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country. What about his cameo in the first episode of Next Generation with Data getting a tour of the Enterprise D?
Encounter at Farpoint aired before the release of Star Trek VI.
12:12 Regarding director Joseph Sargent: he not only directed the first episode of Star Trek after the pilots ("The Corbomite Maneuver"), he also directed a 1964 episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. called "The Project Strigas Affair" in which an exterminator, played by William Shatner, interacts with a foreign operative, played by Leonard Nimoy - the first time the two actors worked together.
Blish was the author of the first ST books I read, back when I was a kid digging through my grandparents attic.
Flashing back to seeing Star Trek VI in the cinema. I was recovering from minor surgery and nursing a lingering fever, so I really shouldn't have been out and about, but there was no way I was going to miss the chance to see it on the big screen. We had to drive an hour to the nearest big city to see it as it wasn't playing at the local mall. Good memories.
My dad, sister, and I saw TMP in the theater, and I fell asleep watching it. I have no desire to revisit it.
I also fell asleep watching TMP at the cinema and was snoring very loud according to my then friends. LOL. I haven't watched TMP since.
Great information thank you for the posting and all that you do
1:37:36 Fun fact with the USS Ranger. My uncle was stationed on that ship only a few years earlier. So if he had renewed his contract and served another term, he could have been an extra in the movie.
I saw this back in 1979....but I don't remember a lot, because I fell asleep 😂
I don't know why people hated on Star Trek the Motion Picture... I remember begging my mom to take me to see this film at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. You can imagine my excitement when she did. The most startling thing I remember was the big update to the uniforms, the update to the starship and the architecture inside the ship. If you think about it, the uniforms in this film are still the best looking futuristic uniforms and they hold up even to this day beating out... Star Trek The Original, Star Trek Next Gen, Star Trek 2009 and so on... but this is just my opinion. Overall, I loved Star Trek The motion picture.
Outstanding video. I regret i can only like and upvote it just once 👍
I know Star Trek III isn't the most popular of the TOS films but it's one of my favorites, it was the first one I got to see in theaters and I remember being heartbroken when the Enterprise was shown as a trail of flame in the sky. I am also in the minority but I think Robin Curtis was the better Saavik and is who I think of when the character is mentioned.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well executed and informatively explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on and about the 120 things you didn't know about all the various 6 different Star Trek Movies indeed Sir!👌.
The Dragonzord and then smash cut to Ronald Reagan is a crazy montage
Zenu called Alley home to his Volcano lol
DeForest Kelly (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) referred to it as "Star Trek Zero."
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Excellent analysis 🖖🏽
I attended my first Star Trek Convention in 1974.
One thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is the money spent on all the canceled projects were tacked on to the budget for TMP, and that's really what put it over $44 million. With just the cost of the movie, it's probably about $10-$15 million less than that. Maybe more.
Lol, The Motion Sickness.
9:44 V'Gr does not knock things "out of existence". It breaks it down and reassembles it inside itself, similar to what a transporter does. A transporter breaks things down and beams them to a set location to reassemble them there. It "records" everything for future reference.
AMAZING VIDEO. The Spock final line (no. 2) should have been left in.
Circa 34:00 onwards:
You don't mean 400 percent less, you mean 75 percent less
Loved the whole review (although I must say it took me awhile to get through the whole video.
I've never understood why people hate on Trek V so much... While not a "perfect" Trek film it wasn't horrible either, and actually was a decent stab at doing a "human-centric" story that Trek does so well, and is so famous for. I also can recall a friend of mine actually saying that he saw Trek V as a two-part TV episode, and he thought the character moments between Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Spock and Sybok came off really well.
In 1978 I remember reading a review of a Yes concert in which the band say that they are working on the soundtrack music for a Star Trek movie. Nothing seems to have come of that but it could have resulted in an interesting album!
The Undiscovered Country was NOT Deforest Kelley’s or Walter Koenig’s last appearance in the franchise. Encounter at Farpoint (Kelley as a 150y/o Admiral McCoy) and the last episode is Picard (Koenig’s voice as the Federation President).
The original cast series and movies are most endearing to me. What has always puzzled me is the constant concern over the budget, in not only the tv series, but the movies as well. This continued thorn in the side of the franchise led to many of the films becoming the masterpiece they should have become. I would also venture to say that having inter office grumblings between Roddenberry and other creatives, ruined what could have been better movies. But my biggest beef is with those who truly feel that the Star Trek franchise is not worth the effort to have put all their eggs in one basket, to create a good storyline, good FX, and overall great experience for the audience.
The Motion Picture…what can I say…. The title didn’t even meet my expectations. And although I desperately wanted to see this movie after the cancellation of the series, I was very disappointed. The long dramatic scenes where we watch the crew looking at the cloud, just nearly made me go to sleep. It’s like no one could figure out how to write dialogue. The sterile environment they created in not only the uniforms, but the ship itself took away the once colorful look from the series. (At least hint to the colors!)
The fact that Savick was not played by the same actor was just thoughtless. If the actor could not be in the film, neither should the character. I mean would they have done that with Spock?
So while I adore the original cast movies for the sake of seeing the original actors, I truly am dismayed at the mindset of the execs and their only interest in making money, without any thought of story, plot, and all around care for the fans.
If the powers that be want to keep the franchise alive, do what’s right, and the money will be there. Trust the process, not your pockets.
Jane Wiedlin was NOT the lead singer of the Go-Go's, she was a background vocalist and rhythm guitarist. And the band really wasn't punk...they were more new wave and pop.
I remember seeing the movie when it was released. I had watched the original television series as a child, and was an early super fan, although never quite reaching the level of being a “Trekkie”. While I enjoyed the movie and found the visuals very impressive, I had a league feeling of letdown at the end. My appreciation of that first film has grown since that first viewing, however, and I have since come to the realization that my letdown feeling was due to how long it had been since the end of the original television series, and I think that no matter what script they would have written and produced, I would have had the same response, merely because that interval between the cancellation of the television series and the release of the first movie, which I had hoped for during all of those years, had built up a level of anticipation that no movie could possibly meet it. My perspective has changed over the years and subsequent viewings, and it I find it quite enjoyable and satisfying today.
One personal note: I find the uniforms of the first motion picture far superior to the “swashbuckler” uniforms of the subsequent films. They are cleaner, simpler, and in my personal opinion more impressive in an understated way.
The military elements included in the Star Trek “universe” do not seem out of place to me at all. First, a well delineated command structure would be essential to allow Star Fleet and its ships and missions to function, and defaulting to the already well developed and functional command and rank structure would seem (with apologies to Mr. Spock) logical. Second, exploring the vast reaches of space would involve an almost unimaginable number of potentially dangerous and deadly unknowns, so arming the vessels to be able to respond to and, if need be, as many different threats, dangers, and situations as possible. In addition, the original television series had already established the existence of an existential threat to the entire Federation, including of course the Earth, in the form of the aggressively militaristic Romulans, so it is equally logical, indeed it is essential, that many of the Federation starships would be fully equipped to be able to engage in full-fledged combat.
Mr. Roddenberry’s more utopian views and desires for the nascent Star Trek franchise, and in particular the Earth, while admirable, were simply unrealistic, even within the context of the internal logic of this fictional universe. Infusing as much reality as possible into the fictional universe of any franchise is essential to facilitate the suspension of disbelief necessary to permit viewers to become fully immersed in the story.
Thank you everybody involved. It’s my nighttime therapy
I was at a Shakespeare play in Klingon some years back in Arlington VA and, yeah, Takei came out for the last bit. =)
Ironically, perhaps, the theatre, from the outside, looks a bit like an Ion cannon from Hoth
The undiscovered country is my favorite also.
18:30 I always reckoned when they left the saucer section they were walking on V'Gers KNOB (the cameras using Dutch Angles so we wouldn't twig it).
1:14:20 Sure he isn't most recognized for playing Castillo on Miami Vice?
1:57:00 I'm all about no armrest! I sit on my legs more often than not and a chair with armrest is uncomfortable for me. lol
One thing I like to laugh at when it comes to the ending of TMP is how McCoy and Spock are standing side by side with these tan jackets. One with a blue stripe on the left upper arm the other with a red stripe as they spoke. When it cuts back to Kirk and his last line, their stripes changed between the two of them. It can even be seen in the movie photo book. 😅
I have always loved the Motion Picture but will admit that I prefer the Directors Cut over the Theatrical