![]() ![]() ![]() It's the closest in story and tone to The Original Series of any of the first six features (although Voyage Home would reflect some of the similar "different time period" TV series episodes, ironically the only other 'pure Original Trek' feature was really Shatner's ill-fated directorial debut, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier), taking a simple premise about a massively powerful and utterly unstoppable alien entity on a collision course with Earth, with only the Enterprise in its path, and turning in some real Hard Sci-Fi, a thoroughly satisfying twister of a story which enjoys some classic Old Trek moments, as well as a wonderfully epic sci-fi backdrop. Part- 2001, part- Star Wars, and all The Original Series, The Motion Picture is - both as a blessing and a curse - very much an Original Series episode, only embiggened to a feature length runtime and emboldened with all the Big Screen tech wizardry that money could buy, and then some. likely the most refined pure Trek film of all time, the likes of which we would basically never see again But none of that really mattered in 1979, when audiences got to see the unwieldy, indulgent but undeniably magnificent Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Eventually the production would go significantly over budget, also yielding a Box Office return that underwhelmed the studios and almost killed the franchise dead before it had even begun, eventually seeing them shift direction drastically for a comparatively low budget, small-scale sequel. The sets and miniatures they had commissioned for the cancelled Phase II series, to be reworked for The Motion Picture, now needed a complete overhaul. Securing the talents of legendary Oscar-Winning Sound of Music director Robert Wise, and adapting Phase II's unused pilot script written by Alan Dean Foster - itself spawned from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's own unused script for an episode of the aborted Genesis II TV series - The Motion Picture had all the pedigree to make it something special.īut it had added pressure. Star Trek: The Original Series wowed TV audiences with the boundlessness of space a decade before Star Wars hit the Big Screen, but its first motion picture had to deal with a world post-Star Wars.ĭespite retaining almost the entire crew under contract - barring Spock's Leonard Nimoy - the planned follow-up show to the Original Series, Star Trek: Phase II, never got off the ground, with the 2-part pilot episode script instead reworked into what would prove to be the most expensive feature of the first six Original Films, by some margin. ![]()
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