What's Your Favorite Derisive Nickname For TMP?

[BillJ]

"Where Nomad Has Gone Before"

Though TMP has always been my favorite Trek movie. But it is hard to miss the similarities.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

That Mad parody is quite curious. It has both Kirk and Spock in spacesuits going into V’ger and the “Learn all that is learnable” line is delivered by Kirk like it was in some drafts rather than Decker. I wonder if they were working off of an early script and some still photos rather than basing it on the movie as released?

They probably were.

They absolutely were. Mad usually tried to have its movie parodies on the stands while the movie was in the theaters. That meant often working from incomplete reference or from a version of the film that was still in flux.

I'm suddenly curious about parodies of something like The Odd Couple. Which couple do they use; Art Carney and Walter Matthau (Broadway), Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (film), or Tony Randall and Jack Klugman (TV)? Or even one of each?

Depends if you're doing a parody of the Broadway play, the movie, or the television show.

 

[mb22]

The Mad #216 issue with TMP had a cover date of July 1980, which means it actually hit the newsstands in May (I remember it personally, as well). I suspect that writer Dick De Bartolo and Drucker were working from stills and the Marvel comics adaptation (and perhaps even the novelization) published in December if they had unused concepts in their parody. I think its unlikely they were able to get their hands on an early script, unless someone had connections with paramount or some other entity.

 

[somebuddyX]

I like The Slow-Motion Picture but I don't think that's a bad thing, it's just how I think of it. It's slow. I'm kinda ambivalent to the film in general but I like the music and look a lot and I like seeing that look referenced in other things, like comics or fan films.
What about the acronym TMP? Sometimes when I think of it it's pronounced "tee-em-pee" and others it's "temp" like how TWOK is "twok".

 

[Bad Robot]

Star Trek - The Screen Saver.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"The Motionless Pitcher" being zapped by "The Raft of Khan" by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Not my personal feeling about TMP, but this was intended cover art for a movie-related "Star Trek" compendium-type fanzine I worked on for years, but which never saw publication. New movies kept coming out and making it obsolete! (The coloured collage here was based on a b/w cartoon I created for the Australian club, ASTREX's newsletter, "Data".)

We once got a letter from a TV station saying they "had no plans to screen 'Star Trek: The Motion'."