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

7. Our First View Of Earth

trekstar

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.

Contributor

Chris Swanson is a freelance writer and blogger based in Phoenix, Arizona, where winter happens to other people. His blog is at wilybadger.wordpress.com