Comments on: Review: Star Trek The Motion Picture

By: Bruce Koski

Bruce Koski — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:58:44 +0000

ST-TMP still holds a special place for me. I remember the anticipation and finally seeing the film opening weekend, and just being thrilled to see the whole crew again. And with these amazing new designs and uniforms. The film seemed to hold closer to Gene’s vision of the continuing future than Bennett’s and Meyer’s did in II and III. For me, it feels the most like a motion picture feature than the later films. There was something magical about it at that time. Yes, it was slower, more ponderous, but I like it.
Flaws: rubbing off the cordite to spell Voyager, yeah, that’s slim. However, in ST II, “You thought this was Ceti Alpha 6?” was a pretty slim facet as well. All of the films have their issues, but ST-TMP stands out for me more for the environment, universe and technology of the future. And the crew was back on board the beautiful, new Enterprise. Yeah, I know, guilty pleasure.

By: Marian Ciobanu

Marian Ciobanu — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:50:37 +0000

-This is not my favorite trek movie..The story works for 60’s..maybe…

By: Katie G.

Katie G. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:13:08 +0000

A lot of people complain that it dragged out too much. Example: there is a scene when Kirk is being transported to the ship. Yes it takes it’s time but I think they are forgetting that this was the triumphant return from cancellation so I guess they were trying to be grand about the whole thing.

Maybe there WERE some mistakes but each movie has a particular slant given which director takes the helm. To prove my point, look how many different opinions there are on all of the reviews of these movies. If any of us made the movie, there would be a lot of complaints like “I would not have done that” or “I would have done this”. We were fearfully and wonderfully made and it comes out in our varying opinions. Such is the spice of life, people.

By: Holger

Holger — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:01:32 +0000

Although I didn’t particularly like TMP at first (I was a teenager when I first saw it on VHS) it has now become my favorite Trek movie. I’ve been watching it over and over. It is a very visual, unemotional movie, but hey, so is Kubrick’s 2001.

By: trlkly

trlkly — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:37:13 +0000

Hey I just wanted to say, be nice to GR. According Nimoy’s autobiography I Am Spock, the original special effects looked like crap, and the new ones were last minute. Unfortunately, the last minute crew made too much, and it was all he could do to shorten it down to 8 minutes

By: Xai

Xai — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:00:38 +0000

I will give kudos to the refit Enterprise. I love the ship in profile…. a functional sculpture. The pylons became wings and her proud stance is wonderful.

By: Jeyl

Jeyl — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:44:46 +0000

Ah, heck. I grew up with this film dangit I still have the urge to watch it every now and then. One of the fatel flaws however is that we spend about half of the time watching people “watch” what’s going on the main screen. I’m so glad they heard us and trimmed it down for the DE.

I will always stand by this film. I love the music, I loved the “Blue” colors, and the opening Klingong battle scene is both the creepiest, coolest and scariest moments I’ve ever seen in all of Star Trek. The Fifth Element even ripped that off!

And of course, if it wasn’t for this film, there would absolutely be NO Star Trek II. Period. And thank god Nicholas Meyer acknowledges that.

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:04:42 +0000

Yeah I like the TMP-STIII Enterprise the best. Never was much of one for vaguely phallic orange bits on the nacelles!!

By: MichaelJohn

MichaelJohn — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:38:54 +0000

As much as I’m a TOS purest…I must admit the Enterprise A first featured in Star Trek TMP is, by far, the best looking Enterprise of all!

For me it’s hands down the coolest looking “space ship” I’ve ever seen in any science fiction movie!

If I had an extra 100K in spare change laying around, I would have bid on this ship during the recent auction. It would have looked sooo cool hanging in my den!!

PS: Seriously though, It’s too bad the Enterprise A model and the TNG Enterprise model weren’t donated to the Smithsonian, like the original Enterprise was. This way all fans could see and appreciate them.

Merry Christmas!

Mike :o

By: Xai

Xai — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:32:54 +0000

#97 Dr.
The characters never truly “worked” together in the film. Intentional or not, it did not take advantage of one of TOS’s strengths…. the chemistry of the main 3. Very little humor, very little humanity. Decker was more human than the big 3. Even after Spock cried for V’ger, the relationships that built in the original TOS were not there. It was a film that wanted to be thoughtful and taken more seriously than Star Wars and was a let down for many because it failed in the attempt. It was as vanilla as the uniforms. It wasn’t truly TOS.
One reason it did as well as it did was that it was the first new live-action Trek in many years. Many people forgave the flaws because they needed to see their heros.
Your comment including Nemesis, while it IS your opinion, is out of context. Nemesis wasn’t reviewed here, and as I said in #87… why the comparison? Deflection? This still is not a Trek vs. Trek thread.
That movie was a flawed attempt at an “action” Trek and failed due to poor writing and direction.

All in my opinion.