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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [Hosted By The JamesMadison]Star Trek: The Motion Picture: A Defense There's a reason for that. The Motion Picture actually started life as a script for the aborted attempt to bring Star Trek back to television called Phase II. It was supposed to be a single episode in length, but when the opportunity arose to turn it into a movie, Gene Roddenberry never really fleshed out the script in a conventional way. You see, Gene Roddenberry was never a very good writer (one writer from The Original Series said that there was no script that Roddenberry ever touched that he didn't make worse), but he did provide two unfiltered versions of his vision of the future in Star Trek. The first was the original pilot to the television show, "The Cage", while The Motion Picture was the second. "The Cage" also happens to be my favorite hour of Star Trek because I am under the impression that science fiction should be weird, and that episode does capture that feeling while also telling a cogent story at the same time. I feel much the same way with The Motion Picture. It's not a great movie (for all of my defense, I am happy to acknowledge the film's flaws), but I do think that there is genius to it.
The great ship dwarfs everything. The drydock becomes a fragile filigree framing the ship's great curved bulk. The tiny pod continues to move along it. The second half to this visual puzzle comes in the below clip. But before we get to that, look at this image: This impression is also explicit in the shooting script: CAMERA TRAVELING WITH ENTERPRISE as it moves on a parallel--closing course -- Alien continues to GROW IN SIZE. Although it already seems an impossibly large vessel compared to the Enterprise, in reality they are still tens of thousands of kilometers apart; the incredible size of the Alien is nowhere near being realized yet. The fact that that impression and theme is played out completely visually is impressive. That is why I think the movie is a work of genius.
Part of me wishes that the movie series had continued in this vein: throwing millions of dollars at the screen to be heady and weird. But then we got Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan which is one of those movies that I have a hard time calling anything other than perfect. I'm happy with what we ended up with afterwards, but still, I wonder how Star Trek would have manifested in the movie theaters had The Motion Picture been more accepted by audiences and critics. We would have probably avoided Star Trek: Insurrection, at least. | Recent Comments
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