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Your honest opinion on the Berman era
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We'll do our best to get you into witness protection, but make no promises...
The greatest movie. Ever!
There are dozens of us!Says the guy who thinks TMP is a great movie…
That's because it is.Says the guy who thinks TMP is a great movie…
Which it is.Says the guy who thinks TMP is a great movie…
It is.
The Creators have spoken.
The Creators have spoken.
I've probably seen it over the years a hundred times, and I've never been bored by it.
I own a copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on VHS, laserdisc, DVD, blu-ray, and UHD.
I've got a nearly complete archive of script drafts and revisions - many of them production-used, going back to the initial outlines for In Thy Image. Hell, I managed to snag Stephen Collins' own original script a few years ago (thankfully not from him directly).
I've gone to multiple archival collections in Los Angeles to research the making of the film over the years, including Robert Wise, DeForest Kelley, and Paramount's.
I've got the novelization, the photostory, several versions of the soundtrack album on vinyl and CD, multiple books on the making of the film.
I so dearly love Star Trek: The Motion Picture that I simply will not and cannot acknowledge the haters. There is no comparison.
I've got a nearly complete archive of script drafts and revisions - many of them production-used, going back to the initial outlines for In Thy Image. Hell, I managed to snag Stephen Collins' own original script a few years ago (thankfully not from him directly).
I've gone to multiple archival collections in Los Angeles to research the making of the film over the years, including Robert Wise, DeForest Kelley, and Paramount's.
I've got the novelization, the photostory, several versions of the soundtrack album on vinyl and CD, multiple books on the making of the film.
I so dearly love Star Trek: The Motion Picture that I simply will not and cannot acknowledge the haters. There is no comparison.
The older I get, the more I appreciate The Motion Picture. It's the only Trek film from the first ten that feels genuinely grand and truly cinematic in scope and ambition.
It takes its time and leans into the awe inspiring grandness of space, treating it as something vast and unknowable rather than just a backdrop for action. It wants to immerse the viewer In the universe. It feels closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to a conventional franchise movie, and that is exactly what makes it stand apart.
It takes its time and leans into the awe inspiring grandness of space, treating it as something vast and unknowable rather than just a backdrop for action. It wants to immerse the viewer In the universe. It feels closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to a conventional franchise movie, and that is exactly what makes it stand apart.
I can agree with this. I also think the film benefits tremendously from viewing in a theater versus watching at home.
It has ambition, but unfortunately doesn't quite succeed in entirely executing upon its grand ideas.
Aren't you a Voyager fan?
Boom.
That's clearly deliberate.
The involvement of Doug Trumbull is no small part of that.
The Shoulder Tabs for the ST:TMP era Uniforms were a good idea since it borrowed from IRL Navy uniforms.
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