Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Regisseur:

Robert Wise

Drehbuchautoren:

Gene Roddenberry (television series Star Trek) and
Alan Dean Foster (story) ...

Premierendatum:

7. Dezember 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Abenteuer | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Werbezeile:

The human adventure is just beginning

Plot:

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

Plot Keywords:

Overture | Psychedelic Image | Golden Gate Bridge | Score Employs Electronic Instruments | Space Station

Filmpreise:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 15 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

an under-rated film

Besetzung

William Shatner	...	Admiral James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
James Doohan	...	Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
George Takei	...	Lt. Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
Majel Barrett	...	Dr. Christine Chapel
Walter Koenig	...	Lt. Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols	...	Lt. Cmdr. Uhura
Persis Khambatta	...	Lt. Ilia
Stephen Collins	...	Cmdr. Willard Decker
Grace Lee Whitney	...	CPO Janice Rand
Mark Lenard	...	Klingon Captain
Billy Van Zandt	...	Alien Boy
Roger Aaron Brown	...	Epsilon Technician
Gary Faga	...	Airlock Technician

Alternativ:

Star Trek II (USA) (working title)
Star Trek: Phase II (USA) (working title)
Star Trek: Planet of the Titans (USA) (working title)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition (USA) (DVD title)
Star Trek: Der Film (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG for sci-fi action and mild language.

Länge:

132 Min | USA:136 Min (director's cut) | USA:143 Min (TV version)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Klingonisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Metrocolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital EX (director's cut) | Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:PG (Ontario - 2006) | Italy:T | Iceland:L | Brazil:Livre | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:K-10 | France:U | Ireland:G | Netherlands:12 | Norway:12 | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:G | USA:PG (director's cut) | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | Canada:F (Ontario) | Canada:PG (Nova Scotia) (director's cut) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:G (Nova Scotia) (original rating)

Drehorte:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Century Associates

Dies und das:

The producers and the cast were very worried about their appearance after being away from "Star Trek" (1966) for ten years. Special lighting and camera tricks were used to hide the cast's aging, and William Shatner went on a near-starvation diet prior to filming. However, in all subsequent Star Trek movies it was decided to make the aging of the crew part of the story.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: As the transporter flies by to dock with Enterprise, it is shown passing in front of a light beam that was pointing at the Enterprise's stardrive section. When the transporter passes in front of the beam, it is lighted. However, there should have been a shadow on the Enterprise when the transporter passed by.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Klingon captain: [giving an order in Klingon] Tactical...

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007) (V)

an under-rated film

This was an under-rated film in the first version, and it is improved a great deal with the changes that Robert Wise made just a few years before he passed away. There has been a backlash against this picture, mostly for two reasons; it was not Star Wars, and it was not what people expected of Star Trek.

If you put these expectations aside, and if you also have some attention span and willingness to relax into a picture this is a remarkable experience. I often here people use words like boring, too long etc. Well yes, if we are expecting a quick-hit, film that can be digested in 90 minutes like a TV show, this is not that type of film. If we apply these standards to Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, Blade Runner, Bridge on the River Kwai, or Citzen Kane (which Robert Wise edited, none of these films would have ever been made.

If you put Star Trek The Motion Picture in context of it's scale and the craftsman involved you start to appreciate it's quality and elegance. Robert Wise does not need qualification. He brings an elegance and texture to work and life in space that StarWars has not put to screen to this day.

Star Wars even now seems like nothing more than an impressive exercise in effects and sound. It is always reminding us that it is a movie. ST-TMP on other hand departed into an "immersive experience" developed by Robert Wise, with the amazing talents of Doug Trumbull and John Dykstra, and the enormous contibutions of Jerry Goldsmith. Likewise, the photography, the scale of the sets and the editing of the film all contribute to a immersive world that saturates the viewer into the film.

You gain a lot of knowledge and appreciation of this film and the experience that they achieved by watching the Director's Edition DVD and listening to Wise, Trumbull, Dykstra, Goldsmith and others discuss the production. This was a uniquely creative and enormous effort, and considering the technological limitations, the demands of the studio, and the many demands of the Star Trek Bible that qualified the creation of the movie. I am pleased to see that other reviewers here have come to appreicate this movie many years later. I encourage the skeptics to find the time to relax and watch it on the biggest screen you can find.