Star Trek The Motion Picture: 10 Reasons It's Underrated

By Chris Swanson / August 1, 2013

7. Our First View Of Earth

Believe it or not, through the entire three-year run of TOS, we never, even once, got to see the Enterprise visit Earth. Given how often EVERY SINGLE OTHER Trek series, including, bizarrely, Voyager, felt the need to visit the place, that€™s something of a surprise.

We don€™t see much of Earth; basically all we get is Starfleet command. But getting anything at all, after all these years of wondering what it might look like, was something nice.