What Your Favourite Star Trek Movie Says About You
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek had been on a break since The Original Series was axed in 1969. Surprisingly, Star Treks popularity grew once the show went into syndication and fans yearned for more. The Animated Series in 1973 didnt really fill the void, what people wanted was another live action show.
Star Trek Phase II was set to continue the adventures of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise, and was well into pre-production by the time Star Wars exploded like a bukkake all over cinemagoers faces to become the first science fiction blockbuster. Paramount wanted a piece of the new found love for all things space and converted the planned TV show into a big budget movie. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was presented to the world in 1979.
With an older crew in a redesigned Enterprise, they boldly went to confront a large energy cloud on its way to Earth. It turned out that it was in fact a NASA Voyager satellite that had gained conciseness and it wanted to know the meaning of its existence.
With a budget that probably eclipsed the entire Original Series put together, one of the best movie soundtracks ever composed and directed by Hollywood icon, Robert Wise; The Motion Picture is still considered by many to be the boring one. Granted it was far more serious in tone than the Original Series and it may have lacked a punchy script, but it is criminally underrated. Undoubtedly a feast for the eyes, ears and mind, The Motion Picture the most pure Star Trek movie out of all of them.
What It Says About You:
You like Star Trek when it is being cerebral, who needs action when the mind is getting a workout. You grow tired of endless good guy V bad guy storylines so it was a joy for you to find out that the villain in the Motion Picture was not intent on destroying the Earth or the Federation; it only wanted answers to the same question we all ask, What is the point of everything?
Some may moan that the film was too heavy on the special effects but they really brought home to you the majesty of space, and the beauty of the Enterprise. Gene Roddenberry had full control over this film, more than any other, and as he knows Star Trek better than anyone else, you class this as what Star Trek is really supposed to be like. If he had more money, the Original Series would have been like this; just look at the original pilot ''The Cage,'' a pilot that was rejected for being too cerebral. And with a story by Alan Dean Foster, no science fiction fan should hate on this movie.
You like Star Trek when it has a message and you feel The Motion Picture is the purist form of Star Trek. The message that love will bring the next step in our evolution is something you wish everyone would take away from the movie. It annoys you that people call it The Motionless Picture but ultimately you feel sorry for them because of their short attention spans. They are probably the same people who think art galleries are boring because you just look at drawings and stuff. and you wish people would remember that if it wasn't for commercial success of The Motion Picture, there would have been no other Star Trek.
You are scientifically minded, you dream about exploring space. It upset you when NASA mothballed the Space Shuttle and you internally giggle when people dont know that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.
Favorite Moment In The Film:
The 10-minute journey into the cloud and Spocks space walk.
Other Films You Like:
2001: A Space Odyssey & the Cosmos TV Series.