So, with Star Trek Into Darkness out this year, I'm going to be posting some of my thoughts about the previous films, beginning with Star Trek: the Motion Picture
Having failed to launch a new Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry got to make a film, and oh boy, what a film. It's huge, packed with special effects which still hold up pretty well and which, at the time, were clearly so good that they couldn't get enough of them, because while the film has some incredible moments, it also has some interminable quarter-hours while the camera pans around an effects shot to show us every imaginable detail and angle. You could lose an hour and not lose any story; possibly more, since this is essentially a hyper-extended version of an original series episode.
As an aside, it also features appearances by several members of the proposed cast of Star Trek: Phase 2, who all die, some in worse ways than others.
The story may be a little thin, but the visual effects are still almost worth the time lavished on them, and Jerry Goldsmith's score (including the theme tune originally intended for Phase 2 and later used for TNG, which also sounds a bit like the theme tune to The Vikings) is amazing. It also uses an instrument made out of magnets sliding around in a plastic tube, which is kind of awesome.
Man I love trivia about this film.
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