Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

  • Director: Robert Wise
  • Writer: Gene Roddenberry,Harold Livingston,Alan Dean Foste
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Klingon
  • Release date: December 8, 1979
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround 7.1
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition
  • "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is a science fiction film produced by Paramount Pictures, Inc. Directed by Robert Wise, starring William Alan Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelly, James Montgomery Doohan and others.
    The film tells the story of Captain Kirk being ordered to command the Enterprise spacecraft for the last time against a large-scale alien attack on the earth. The film was released in the United States on December 6, 1979. 

    Details

    • Release date December 8, 1979
    • Filming locations Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures, Century Associates, Robert Wise Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $35,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $82,604,699

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,926,421

    Gross worldwide

    $82,604,699

    Movie reviews

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    • By Letitia 2022-12-03 19:41:59

      The driving force of evolution is the imperfection of human nature

      As a fan of sci-fi movies, it's a secret that I can't tell if I haven't seen the Star Trek series. That's what a canon is about -- you watch it or you don't watch it, it's there, and you can't go around the Star Trek franchise when talking about sci-fi movies. Today, I came to make up the class.

      After watching the first installment in the series: Infinite Space, the first thing I did was check the chronology of classic sci-fi movies. "2001: A Space Odyssey" was filmed in 1968 and "Star...

    • By Krista 2022-11-27 18:57:32

      logic cold sadness

      This series is all jumping to watch, because I have never been able to find the complete film source before, and jumping to watch it in time does not affect the look and feel, each one tells a different story. After watching the new trilogy on iQIYI and finding out that it has all the episodes, I was so excited to watch it all at once during the holidays, starting from scratch, this is the first one.

    • By Jimmie 2022-10-10 03:47:50

      Private Memory: Leonard Nimoy

      In the Star Trek series, I've watched all 79 episodes of the original 3 seasons of the TV series, most of the 178 episodes of the 7 seasons of The Next Generation, parts of Deep Space Nine, parts of the animated version, all 10 early films and 3 recent movies. They occupied my bedtime for several years. Every time you turn on the screen, it is like entering another world, reuniting with old friends and reminiscing. Sometimes I don't want to go to sleep after reading the ending. I open the...

    • By Izabella 2022-09-16 05:46:49

      Star Trek: Infinite Space failed comic adaptation

      As an elderly reader who has read the original comics for a long time, the author is very angry to find that the movie version has been adapted like this. (`pan´)

      Many years later, I found out that this manga actually has a live-action version. At first, I started watching it with great expectations. At...

    • By Charlie 2022-09-14 16:13:53

      The plot can't make up for the delay caused by the special effects due to time constraints

      First of all, this drama really has a sense of age, pictures, special effects and so on.

      As an audience who has watched a lot of today's advanced special effects technology, there will undoubtedly be a strong sense of disobedience when watching this drama. In addition, there are no era filters, and the plot is particularly important at this time. It is understandable that the technology at that time was not as good as it is now, but only film and television works that can still...

    User comments

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    • By Eryn 2023-09-26 13:02:17

      The director wasted good material - a Blade Runner-like Rachel robot and its subsequent awakening of human consciousness. He wasted a lot of time on special effects - it's just a bunch of 2 hours of visual YY in outer space!!! The characterization and the cause and effect of the events were not explained clearly. The main line of the story is purely to add more special effects shots! Feels like watching an ad about outer...

    • By Abigayle 2023-09-22 03:04:33

      A large number of SHOW special effects have become tasteless today, and the plot is loose enough. . . The imitation of a Space Odyssey 2001 is too...

    • By Jevon 2023-09-09 23:56:43

      Pushing on the Enterprise's surprisingly slow footage, relative to Trekkie's decade, is no...

    • By Christopher 2023-08-31 18:57:58

      It is indeed an authentic sci-fi movie. Although it is a work from more than 30 years ago, everything is just right. There is no such thing as an action movie, a thriller or a horror movie like the current sci-fi movie. The music is indeed much different from that of 2001: A Space Odyssey. , the camera dare not slow down a bit. . . . . . Spock's gestures are stress-free! ! I am Vulcan star...

    • By Dan 2023-08-22 08:00:59

      The rhythm is slow and the story is not well told, but the sci-fi creativity of this film is still good, and it is worth seeing the handsome and tender appearances of the leading actors who are now old men. The intro would be nice if it wasn't so...

    Creative process

    As early as when participating in the World Science Fiction Convention in 1968, Gene Roddenberry , the producer of the TV series "Star Trek", proposed to make it into a movie, but it was not until May 1975 that Paramount and Roddenberry began to write the script. The budget is between US$3 million and US$5 million. On June 30, Rodden Berry completed the first draft of the script, but was rejected by the upper management of Paramount....
    more about Star Trek: The Motion Picture Creative process

    Shooting process

    NASA consultant Jesco von Puttkamer (Jesco von Puttkamer) played an important role. From 1976 to the filming of the film, Puttkamer, a fan of the series, has been paying close attention to the technology in the script. He provided detailed notes to the screenwriter, producer, and director, and carefully reviewed every dialogue in the script. As an important behind-the-scenes hero for the entire film, Putkamo didn’t take any money.

    Movie quotes

    • [a transporter accident has just occurred]

      Transporter chief: Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately.

    • Captain James T. Kirk: [33:14] Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet...

      Dr. McCoy: Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used "reserve activation clause." In simpler language, Captain, they DRAFTED me!

      Captain James T. Kirk: [in mock horror] They didn't.

      Dr. McCoy: This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn't it?

      Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, there's a... thing... out there.

      Dr. McCoy: Why is any object we don't understand always called "a thing"?

    • Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well Jim... I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well I'm gonna need a top nurse... not a doctor who'll argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too! I know engineers, they LOVE to change things.