It's grown on me over the years, but if I had to quantify it, I'd still say that it fails more than it succeeds. I wish the story was up to the spectacle of it.
How much stock do you put in the even/odd curse?
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This has been the most common complaint about it from the beginning. Back in high school, one of my few friends said it was more like "Star Trek: The Cast Reunion" than anything else. He's now a rocket scientist.
But as a cast reunion, it feels off. TMP presents us with both a Kirk and a Spock who are very unlike the the ones we knew in the series. Only McCoy is close to his TOS characterization.
Yeah, I tend to wonder if a lot of the problem with TMP in terms of it's off-character moments are because at the core it's a TV pilot trying to establish a new Star Trek. All three characters are back in the old dynamic in the final scene, as one might expect from a TV pilot leading into regular episodes. Their character arcs/journies are really only relevant to this one script, a means of demonstrating they've all gone seperate ways but are uneasily finding their way back together. A traditional 'reunion episode' would simply have them all back in the saddle doing their set pieces from scene 1. Indeed, the first ever story treatment by Alan Dean Foster, prior to the Enterprise-refit stuff being grafted on by Roddenberry and Livingston, did open with the ship already out there and receiving a distress call from the Starbase about the approaching cloud, just as you'd expect from any 'regular' episode 
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