you prolly dont give a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can watch all of the latest series on instaflixxer. I've been binge watching with my gf for the last days xD
This film really was a visual spectacular and shows that great model work looks a lot better than CGI! I recently watched Classic Battlestar Galactica and bits of the remake and the 2003 CGI looks terribly dated and the late 70s early 80s model work looks excellent! I use this example because the movie and series came out around the same time as TMP! there is a place for CGI but it should be used along side the classic model work to get the best of both worlds! this is why so many sci-fi movies of the 70s and 80s still look great after all these years
hmm some of the model work is a bit clunky... and starwars especially the models don't work so well in HD.. like you can clearly tell they're flying around in a studio. but on the other hand cgi just looks faded and unfocused..you don't always get the same amount of detail
@@edharris2395 I dunno about that. I think the original star wars has some of the best practical effects sequences ever commited to celluloid. The imperial star destroyers are epic for example
This is a profound film. Everyone is allowed to have their favorites, and among all the Star Trek films this is mine! Even though this video is more than twice as long as the next longest "ships only" video, there are actually some missing exterior visuals--namely the departure from drydock sequence--as well as a few interior visual shots that in my opinion would have qualified for "ships only" (such as the cargo bay shot, the warp core shot, and numerous bridge viewscreen shots). This was the only time Star Trek ever fully explored the visual beauty of the Enterprise, and I love every single shot! It's also the only Star Trek film from the Kirk era to distinguish when the warp and impulse drives (denoted by whether their respective engines are lit up), and the main power systems (denoted by the main deflector dish), are operating. In all future films, the deflector dish is always blue and the warp engines are only lit up when the ship is actually traveling at warp speed. These are small details by themselves, but they really lend a sense of hugeness and reality to the Enterprise as a whole. In the few shots where the Enterprise is fully powered up--such as in the wormhole, and during the initial approach to Vejur--you really get a feeling for how capable the ship is, and how alone it is in a vast universe, with nothing to rely on but itself and the wits of its crew. That is a thing of beauty.
Absolutely agree, this film for me was the absolute embodiment of Star trek, the only one in the entire franchise to evoke awe, I never understood why it was so hated by true star trek fans.
It's tempting for me to be dismissive of people who hate this film and say that it just went over their heads. But what I actually think is the case is that it's simply _popular_ to hate on this film. The conventional wisdom is that Star Trek II and First Contact are the great Star Trek films. I think many people just follow the conventional wisdom--because humans are a social species and, in lieu of other considerations, conforming to popular conventions is what we do. Also, just as importantly, Star Trek's fandom has shifted demographically. The people who hold up a show like DS9 as the epitome of Star Trek may well call themselves Trekkers--and I won't debate their right to the label--but they are cut from an entirely different cloth from the fans who originally made Star Trek into the phenomenon that it has become. This newer breed of fan admires Star Trek for its violence, grit, and ethical ambiguity--antithetical to what Gene Roddenberry was trying to do. The later Star Trek series (everything after TNG really) abandoned the notion of a utopian future for humankind and instead preferred to transform the future into a dressed-up version of the present day. (The Original Series did this too, but it did so to point out the folly of our contemporary social conflicts--not bask in them, the way we see with concepts like Section 31 and the struggle for hologram rights.) Someone who holds up space battles and an ugly Federation as the ideal of Star Trek will, almost by definition, never be able to praise a film like _The Motion Picture_.
Outstanding points, I also think for a film to be made today, it has to be as commercial as possible, (stating the bleeding obvious I know) so a big budget SF film must be as visually appealing as possible. unfortunately this seams to mean space battles and light sabres, at the expense of anything more cerebral. I'd love to see some big budget, story led SF, something to wonder at, unfortunately I think we belong to a minority, one that doesn't warrant a 200million dollar budget.
+Grey Area The age range of audiences over the last twenty years has been getting younger. So movies have to be pitched at a mostly male audience between 13 and 30 (narrow that down further probably). Given the budgets of films, you can't really blame studios or finance companies for avoiding risky projects. Any studio that ignores this won't last long.
Numinous20111, movies have always heavily targeted younger and male demographics, clear back to the 1930s. The changes that have occurred in the film industry in the past twenty years have nothing to do with that. They are a result of the changing structure of the companies that produce these movies, and the changing economic landscape of the motion picture market. Your perception of risk aversion comes mainly from the facts that: A) the big studios have created a market environment where they think they have to (and usually do have to) spend nine figures (hundreds of millions of dollars) to produce a blockbuster, which is a huge sum to invest in a riskier proposition; and B) the big studios are currently in the process of playing out a profitable fad of making comic book films and sequels thereto, both of which have less risk than a generic original movie.
I wish to god that Paramount would release this in 3D at cinemas. If any Star Trek movie deserves the 3D treatment it is this one. Imagine getting good and stoned and watching this in 3D! It would be mind blowing.
Wow, amazingly beautiful, really. Doug Trumbull and crew were really inspired when they produced this. Jerry Goldsmith's musical accompaniment could not be better.
I think that ST TMP was ( and always will be ) a very historical figure of the original, beloved crew of the most well know ship, that shined their way onto the big screen...and with extordinary music scores by the most well known music conductor....Jerry Goldsmith, and with Robert Wise that directed this film...makes ST TMP a very good classic movie that most still want to see today!
The only real Star Trek movie where there is no stupid villain who wants revenge or whichever stupid motive along with Voyage Home... Of course, the Borg in First Contact is entirely different business, they feel nothing, so...
There are parallels with this and Voyage Home - in TMP V'Ger wants to find the creator (on Earth) In Voyage Home the Whale probe wants to find, err, Whales. On Earth. It's Trek, I love 'em all anyway (even Final Frontier)
This film is truly amazing and thank you for collecting some of my favourite parts dude. Fuck the haters. This film is stunning and it's my favourite of all of them!
The Motionless Picture has never been so exciting! i remember thinking i'd enjoy a supercut of only ship shots from the flick a few years ago, and here i find someone has done it! well done!
The special effects in Star Trek: The Motion Picture are brilliant. I love the shots of the Enterprise in drydock and what we see of the V'Ger spacecraft (not counting the shots from the Director's Edition).
LandMill I heard that the reason why they haven't released the Director's Edition in HD is because the CGI shots were apparently created in a format that is not suitable for full HD conversion. Whether this is true or not I don't know. If it is, then I guess that means they would have to redo the CGI shots again, but this time with today's technology to present them in full HD.
They wanted the new SFX to fully integrate between the old ones, in the D's Cut, you see for example that the Klingon ships scen is barely enhanced and left much like it was. They wanted the new SFX to look like the old ones in order to do better than Lucas in the Star Wars Special Editions which were quite ugly by comparison with their old original selves.
They did a lot of endless shots of spaceships where nothing in particular happened but they didn't manage to complete the scene with the Klingon ships in the beginning -three ships all of a sudden becomes two without explanation.
This is incredible. Is amazing the quality of TMP effects. The first shots of the Enterprise in the drydock are better tan all CGI crap theyre using today.
USS Columbia (NCC-621) Hermes Scout (One Nacelle) USS Revere (NCC-595) Hermes Scout (One Nacelle) USS Entente (NCC-2120) Federation Dreadnought (3 Nacelle) These ships originated in the Starfleet Technical Manual. Nice to see them mentioned in canon. We also see images of these vessels in TWOK on the Computer Displays.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely greatly fabulously well done and executed in every detail way shape and format provided indeed Sir's!👌. (We are Vger of the Borg collective resistance is futile!).
The storyline really held this film back. Basically a retelling and extended version of The Changeling from the 2nd season of TOS I believe. The effects however were outstanding and IMO still hold up very well. Much better than CGI.
Thanks for posting. This really is so well done...I have seen the film many times and have always been fan of the extraordinary work done by Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra.
Those are K'Tinga-class Battlecruisers. Improved versions of the venerable D7 Battlecruisers. I think they're the oldest spaceframes still in use in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants by any power. The K'Tinga-class still being very much alive and well as late as DS9 and a TOS-era D7 surviving into Voyager and least one other TOS-era D7 surviving until early TNG
ok the V-Jer ship was awesome. Big enough to contain entire star systems (I think). I would have wet my pants traveling thru something like that. And the special effects with the former commander and the robot "melding" was awe inspiring. An electrically charged orgasm of sorts!
I think the whole cloud was as large as earth's or it around the sun. the ship itself planets sized. Still mind boggling, but not swallowing systems just yet
In Star Trek an astronomical unit or AU is equal to 150 million kilometers, or approximately 93 million miles. Originally the energy cloud from V'Ger was 82 AU's, which would have been bigger than the entire solar system. In the new versions they edited the dialog to have the cloud at only 2 AU's, which puts it at Earth's distance from the Sun.
According to star trek wiki page. The cloud measured eighty-two AUs in diameter. In case you don't know, a single AU is the distance from Earth to the sun. So that would make it about 7,626 million miles across
I honestly don' get the dislike for this film, imo it's certainly better than the some of the stupid new stuff like young kirk driving around in circles on a motorcyle.
That was curiously satisfying, thank you. During watching it occurred to me to wonder what that physically done moving glass matte cloud effect would have looked like had it been filmed in 3D. I bet that would've been really amazing.
I love two things about it. A. The way it was achieved, and B. That sound effect. That whistling WHHEWWW... It sounds powerful without being a really overt PEW PEW PEW!
I wish Robert Wise was still the director for the other Star Trek movies since he is a great underrated director. He said it wasn't pleasant working on it because they keep changing the scripts even filming and no one knew what the story was going to be about which resulted in a "boring" plot although I did like the concept of a machine having an intelligence of it's own.
Must have been interesting to expect a big screen version of Kirk doing weird shit like pretending he's a horse on a big chessboard only to get something as deep as this.
OKAY, how can you claim to love it but fail to show her pulling out of spacedock? As many faults as the film had, raising the hair all over my skinny bod and eliciting tears of happiness was NOT one, when Kirk commanded, "Take her out." I laughed out loud in kindred spirit with the dock hand doing somersaults (in microgravity and a spacesuit) as the Great White Lady shifted orbit and appeared to "pull out" of whichever spacedock it was at the time (too early/not large enough for McKinley Station). THOSE were shots we original Star Trek fen wanted to see! ... at least, we wanted a few, and they didn't HAVE to be minutes in length. "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture" was a lot like Los Angeles ... I went on for a long time after it made its point.
Great video, great job. Deserves to be seen on a big HD TV. Gives you a sense of the "2001" vibe that they may have been going for. Give them credit for long shots, whereas these days it's always cut, cut, cut and slam bang thank you ma'am. Robert Wise directed but I don't know if he really had the feel for Star Trek. Too many shots of "people staring in awe at something". If TMP could be severely edited down, it could be a more exciting forward-moving film. Plus, Kirk was "ticked off, bad mood" for the entire movie, which is "no fun" to watch. Still love Trek, even though they disappoint me sometimes. Eager to see what Discovery will bring.
I saw this during the christmas hols in 1979. As it dragged on and on, we were getting more and more bored! My mates said it had no story, which isn't actually correct. I probably would 've enjoyed this whittled down version back then. But now, i'd probably appreciate the dialogue and story a bit more.
Sad to think that the practical effects and model work in this movie will probably never be bettered. This might be the high point of that kind of film making. Even state of the art CGI films like Prometheus which have a lot of work and thought put into the visuals don't quite match up.
Cloak may have still been detected by Vger. Also Klingons are known for their aggression and also can't fire while cloaked. It is also not in their nature to run away.
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Goldsmith scored the hell out of this movie.
and then some...
you prolly dont give a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can watch all of the latest series on instaflixxer. I've been binge watching with my gf for the last days xD
@Emery Ryan Yea, I've been using instaflixxer for since december myself =)
It is one of the best yes :)
Especially that Klingon theme!
This Enterprise is so Beautiful.
There will never be a Star Trek movie like this ever again. Unfortunately.
The music score for this movie is uplifting,
This film really was a visual spectacular and shows that great model work looks a lot better than CGI! I recently watched Classic Battlestar Galactica and bits of the remake and the 2003 CGI looks terribly dated and the late 70s early 80s model work looks excellent! I use this example because the movie and series came out around the same time as TMP! there is a place for CGI but it should be used along side the classic model work to get the best of both worlds! this is why so many sci-fi movies of the 70s and 80s still look great after all these years
Agree totally.
hmm some of the model work is a bit clunky... and starwars especially the models don't work so well in HD.. like you can clearly tell they're flying around in a studio. but on the other hand cgi just looks faded and unfocused..you don't always get the same amount of detail
@@edharris2395 I dunno about that. I think the original star wars has some of the best practical effects sequences ever commited to celluloid. The imperial star destroyers are epic for example
This is a far superior film than any JJ Abrams garbage on all levels.
This is a profound film. Everyone is allowed to have their favorites, and among all the Star Trek films this is mine!
Even though this video is more than twice as long as the next longest "ships only" video, there are actually some missing exterior visuals--namely the departure from drydock sequence--as well as a few interior visual shots that in my opinion would have qualified for "ships only" (such as the cargo bay shot, the warp core shot, and numerous bridge viewscreen shots). This was the only time Star Trek ever fully explored the visual beauty of the Enterprise, and I love every single shot!
It's also the only Star Trek film from the Kirk era to distinguish when the warp and impulse drives (denoted by whether their respective engines are lit up), and the main power systems (denoted by the main deflector dish), are operating. In all future films, the deflector dish is always blue and the warp engines are only lit up when the ship is actually traveling at warp speed. These are small details by themselves, but they really lend a sense of hugeness and reality to the Enterprise as a whole. In the few shots where the Enterprise is fully powered up--such as in the wormhole, and during the initial approach to Vejur--you really get a feeling for how capable the ship is, and how alone it is in a vast universe, with nothing to rely on but itself and the wits of its crew. That is a thing of beauty.
Absolutely agree, this film for me was the absolute embodiment of Star trek, the only one in the entire franchise to evoke awe, I never understood why it was so hated by true star trek fans.
It's tempting for me to be dismissive of people who hate this film and say that it just went over their heads. But what I actually think is the case is that it's simply _popular_ to hate on this film. The conventional wisdom is that Star Trek II and First Contact are the great Star Trek films. I think many people just follow the conventional wisdom--because humans are a social species and, in lieu of other considerations, conforming to popular conventions is what we do.
Also, just as importantly, Star Trek's fandom has shifted demographically. The people who hold up a show like DS9 as the epitome of Star Trek may well call themselves Trekkers--and I won't debate their right to the label--but they are cut from an entirely different cloth from the fans who originally made Star Trek into the phenomenon that it has become. This newer breed of fan admires Star Trek for its violence, grit, and ethical ambiguity--antithetical to what Gene Roddenberry was trying to do. The later Star Trek series (everything after TNG really) abandoned the notion of a utopian future for humankind and instead preferred to transform the future into a dressed-up version of the present day. (The Original Series did this too, but it did so to point out the folly of our contemporary social conflicts--not bask in them, the way we see with concepts like Section 31 and the struggle for hologram rights.) Someone who holds up space battles and an ugly Federation as the ideal of Star Trek will, almost by definition, never be able to praise a film like _The Motion Picture_.
Outstanding points, I also think for a film to be made today, it has to be as commercial as possible, (stating the bleeding obvious I know) so a big budget SF film must be as visually appealing as possible. unfortunately this seams to mean space battles and light sabres, at the expense of anything more cerebral. I'd love to see some big budget, story led SF, something to wonder at, unfortunately I think we belong to a minority, one that doesn't warrant a 200million dollar budget.
+Grey Area The age range of audiences over the last twenty years has been getting younger. So movies have to be pitched at a mostly male audience between 13 and 30 (narrow that down further probably). Given the budgets of films, you can't really blame studios or finance companies for avoiding risky projects. Any studio that ignores this won't last long.
Numinous20111, movies have always heavily targeted younger and male demographics, clear back to the 1930s. The changes that have occurred in the film industry in the past twenty years have nothing to do with that. They are a result of the changing structure of the companies that produce these movies, and the changing economic landscape of the motion picture market. Your perception of risk aversion comes mainly from the facts that: A) the big studios have created a market environment where they think they have to (and usually do have to) spend nine figures (hundreds of millions of dollars) to produce a blockbuster, which is a huge sum to invest in a riskier proposition; and B) the big studios are currently in the process of playing out a profitable fad of making comic book films and sequels thereto, both of which have less risk than a generic original movie.
I wish to god that Paramount would release this in 3D at cinemas. If any Star Trek movie deserves the 3D treatment it is this one. Imagine getting good and stoned and watching this in 3D! It would be mind blowing.
just imagine the reaction when v'gers engines are revealed.
I agree
I'd take this one light-year further. Do a remastered version at the sphere in Las Vegas.
This is the first time that the Warp Speed effect was introduced.
And we were introduced to your mom.
@@jamessullivan4391
Putz.
Thanks for putting this together! Even though ST:TMP was kind of boring at times, the cinematics was way ahead of it's time and extremely beautiful!
Missed the shot of the Enterprise over Earth after she leaves spacedock and flying past some planets in the solar system.
Wow, amazingly beautiful, really. Doug Trumbull and crew were really inspired when they produced this. Jerry Goldsmith's musical accompaniment could not be better.
16:12 Probably my favorite effects shot of the whole film.
I think that ST TMP was ( and always will be ) a very historical figure of the original, beloved crew of the most well know ship, that shined their way onto the big screen...and with extordinary music scores by the most well known music conductor....Jerry Goldsmith, and with Robert Wise that directed this film...makes ST TMP a very good classic movie that most still want to see today!
Good: Intriguing Plot, Fantastic Visuals, Amazing Score
Bad: Glacial Pacing, Stiff Acting
Yeah, you have good points.
This is still, by far, the finest Star Trek of them all. Nice ship shot compilation :)
The only real Star Trek movie where there is no stupid villain who wants revenge or whichever stupid motive along with Voyage Home... Of course, the Borg in First Contact is entirely different business, they feel nothing, so...
There are parallels with this and Voyage Home - in TMP V'Ger wants to find the creator (on Earth) In Voyage Home the Whale probe wants to find, err, Whales. On Earth. It's Trek, I love 'em all anyway (even Final Frontier)
@@quoniam426 and the Borg were Swedish 🇸🇪 so that explains a lot 😂 😂
This film is truly amazing and thank you for collecting some of my favourite parts dude. Fuck the haters. This film is stunning and it's my favourite of all of them!
I strongly agree. The opening Klingon K'Tinga' Battlecruiser's Battle With V'Ger scene is my Number #1 favorite epic scene in this movie.
@The last Prussian HEY!!! This movie isn't TRASH!!! FUCK YOU!!!
Missed the whole enterprise leaving dry dock I'm sure I'm the 333rd person to say this.
Something about the last Klingon Ship shooting that last, futile Torpedo a microsecond before it gets hit by Vgers probe thingy gets me everytime.
Press pause at about 8:41, just as the torpedo comes out of its spout! It lights up the whole screen and looks fantastic. Photon Torpedastic!
The Motionless Picture has never been so exciting! i remember thinking i'd enjoy a supercut of only ship shots from the flick a few years ago, and here i find someone has done it! well done!
The special effects in Star Trek: The Motion Picture are brilliant. I love the shots of the Enterprise in drydock and what we see of the V'Ger spacecraft (not counting the shots from the Director's Edition).
+Andrew Chapman If i recall. There are some ships in STO which are actualy based in design off of the Vger ship.
I agree. However, I think the Director's Edition is better than the Theatrical Edition. Too bad it's only available in standard definition on iTunes.
LandMill I heard that the reason why they haven't released the Director's Edition in HD is because the CGI shots were apparently created in a format that is not suitable for full HD conversion. Whether this is true or not I don't know. If it is, then I guess that means they would have to redo the CGI shots again, but this time with today's technology to present them in full HD.
They wanted the new SFX to fully integrate between the old ones, in the D's Cut, you see for example that the Klingon ships scen is barely enhanced and left much like it was. They wanted the new SFX to look like the old ones in order to do better than Lucas in the Star Wars Special Editions which were quite ugly by comparison with their old original selves.
Quo Niam Yup, the Star Wars Special Editions are terrible.
22:39 STILL Impressed that they did this in 1979. This looks familiar to the reboot energizing effect
We are Klingons lets fly by that gigantic unknown entity and fire photons into it.
They did a lot of endless shots of spaceships where nothing in particular happened but they didn't manage to complete the scene with the Klingon ships in the beginning -three ships all of a sudden becomes two without explanation.
It was originally composed in 1979 for this film. They later reused it for TNG in 1987. It then returned for movies V, VIII, IX, and X.
This is incredible. Is amazing the quality of TMP effects. The first shots of the Enterprise in the drydock are better tan all CGI crap theyre using today.
USS Columbia (NCC-621)
Hermes Scout (One Nacelle)
USS Revere (NCC-595)
Hermes Scout (One Nacelle)
USS Entente (NCC-2120)
Federation Dreadnought (3 Nacelle)
These ships originated in the Starfleet Technical Manual. Nice to see them mentioned in canon. We also see images of these vessels in TWOK on the Computer Displays.
No leaving spacedock, with all the lights coming on?
Jerry Goldsmiths music score is one of the most memorable features of this Star Trek movie
The shuttle scence with the Golden Gate Bridge is missing :(
And Enterprises departure out of dry dock..
My favorite Star Trek movie and the music score was inspired ,
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely greatly fabulously well done and executed in every detail way shape and format provided indeed Sir's!👌. (We are Vger of the Borg collective resistance is futile!).
Haven't seen this movie in ages ... holy *** the effects looks great!
Such a under rated film the special effects and soundtrack is so cool
The storyline really held this film back. Basically a retelling and extended version of The Changeling from the 2nd season of TOS I believe.
The effects however were outstanding and IMO still hold up very well. Much better than CGI.
Then it's just a Remake with Worthy Epicness
Partly inspired I believe by the cancelled Star Trek 2 tv series.
Thanks for posting. This really is so well done...I have seen the film many times and have always been fan of the extraordinary work done by Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra.
23:52 Always loved the sound of the Enterprises engines humming to life over earth.
just wonderful made I'm in awwwwe
The birds of prey are so “klingon” . . . I love them. Awesome job whoever designed them 🥰🥰
Those are K'Tinga-class Battlecruisers. Improved versions of the venerable D7 Battlecruisers. I think they're the oldest spaceframes still in use in the Alpha/Beta Quadrants by any power.
The K'Tinga-class still being very much alive and well as late as DS9 and a TOS-era D7 surviving into Voyager and least one other TOS-era D7 surviving until early TNG
ok the V-Jer ship was awesome. Big enough to contain entire star systems (I think). I would have wet my pants traveling thru something like that. And the special effects with the former commander and the robot "melding" was awe inspiring. An electrically charged orgasm of sorts!
I think the whole cloud was as large as earth's or it around the sun. the ship itself planets sized. Still mind boggling, but not swallowing systems just yet
In Star Trek an astronomical unit or AU is equal to 150 million kilometers, or approximately 93 million miles. Originally the energy cloud from V'Ger was 82 AU's, which would have been bigger than the entire solar system. In the new versions they edited the dialog to have the cloud at only 2 AU's, which puts it at Earth's distance from the Sun.
According to star trek wiki page. The cloud measured eighty-two AUs in diameter. In case you don't know, a single AU is the distance from Earth to the sun. So that would make it about 7,626 million miles across
best star trek movie ever
I honestly don' get the dislike for this film, imo it's certainly better than the some of the stupid new stuff like young kirk driving around in circles on a motorcyle.
TIMELESS MASTERPIECE ❤🖤🤍 A MAGNIFICENT AND MAGICAL FLICK FROM MY YOUTH WHEN MY CLEAR HEAD WAS FULL OF EMPTY SPACE HAPPY DAYS !
That was curiously satisfying, thank you. During watching it occurred to me to wonder what that physically done moving glass matte cloud effect would have looked like had it been filmed in 3D. I bet that would've been really amazing.
Movie was beyond its time
O captain, my captain we entered a 70s rock concert.
lol...it’s......lonely......out....in......space
Wonder why we only saw two of the Klingon K'Tinga cruisers destroyed.
The battle cruisers always looked like they were wearing graduation caps or something
20:39 Such a Fantastic and unique Shot/scene with being Outside of the Ship !
Much like the First Contact Borg Scene
I actually really liked this movie
Really love the way you Edited the video👍
This movi is so great 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I love what those V'Ger plasma torpedoes do to ships..
why did you cot out the leaving drydock scene? that should give you about an extra 10 minutes of footage.
Indeed. The sun coming around Earth, which was spectacular, has always stuck in my mind since first seeing this in 1979 at our local flea pit!
I love two things about it. A. The way it was achieved, and B. That sound effect. That whistling WHHEWWW... It sounds powerful without being a really overt PEW PEW PEW!
Gorgeous effects work. Enjoyed the video... Love STTMP
i have never seen this, great quality.
I wish Robert Wise was still the director for the other Star Trek movies since he is a great underrated director. He said it wasn't pleasant working on it because they keep changing the scripts even filming and no one knew what the story was going to be about which resulted in a "boring" plot although I did like the concept of a machine having an intelligence of it's own.
I love this film.
Listening to this music is simply uplifting compared to all the political upheaval right now.
Must have been interesting to expect a big screen version of Kirk doing weird shit like pretending he's a horse on a big chessboard only to get something as deep as this.
Why did they use The Next Generation theme tune for this movie?
no,because this movie were the first star trek movie on screen...the next generation was more than 3 dacade after this movie
@@dviessdelufwaluvwa6301 Er... it was less than a decade between TMP (1979) and TNG (1987).
The music was used in this 1979 film first. It was then adapted for TNG which started in 1987.
OKAY, how can you claim to love it but fail to show her pulling out of spacedock? As many faults as the film had, raising the hair all over my skinny bod and eliciting tears of happiness was NOT one, when Kirk commanded, "Take her out." I laughed out loud in kindred spirit with the dock hand doing somersaults (in microgravity and a spacesuit) as the Great White Lady shifted orbit and appeared to "pull out" of whichever spacedock it was at the time (too early/not large enough for McKinley Station). THOSE were shots we original Star Trek fen wanted to see! ... at least, we wanted a few, and they didn't HAVE to be minutes in length. "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture" was a lot like Los Angeles ... I went on for a long time after it made its point.
Cool video.
Great video, great job. Deserves to be seen on a big HD TV. Gives you a sense of the "2001" vibe that they may have been going for. Give them credit for long shots, whereas these days it's always cut, cut, cut and slam bang thank you ma'am. Robert Wise directed but I don't know if he really had the feel for Star Trek. Too many shots of "people staring in awe at something". If TMP could be severely edited down, it could be a more exciting forward-moving film. Plus, Kirk was "ticked off, bad mood" for the entire movie, which is "no fun" to watch.
Still love Trek, even though they disappoint me sometimes. Eager to see what Discovery will bring.
VGER was a very naughty boy 👿
I would argue that neither Spock nor Decker/Ilea should've been part of the segment. They're not ships or even non-living objects.
Anybody else ever wonder what those glowing organic looking balls are at 14:53?
10:39 My favorite is the interior of the V'ger
If the Enterprise was centered, 16:42 would've made a beautiful desktop background.
Nice.
0:01 Interesting ship there...
高清影像，好好聽！
LOL. I want one!
Awesome
you completely missed the sequence of the Enterprise leaving drydock and passing Jupiter!!! Where is that scene?
18:39 Behold: Miss Piggy and Darth Vader combine to thwart Mr. Spock.
Yeah, the flyby's of Enterprise in space dock with the orchestra music blaring were about third of the movie. How could you leave them out?
They didn't replace all the shots of the Enterprise with CGI for the remastered version.
can you do star wars episode 4-6?
Should have included the shot of Vger being revealed
Wait a minute. Mountains are actually SHIPS?!
Urm... is this missing the whole bit where it leaves dock
Epsilon: That's not a ship....that's a space station!
The section where the Enterprise is leaving drydock is missing.
The cosmos intergalactica species
Not nearly precarious as the Kirk/Gorn fight. Now that shit kept me on the edge of my seat.
I saw this during the christmas hols in 1979. As it dragged on and on, we were getting more and more bored! My mates said it had no story, which isn't actually correct. I probably would 've enjoyed this whittled down version back then. But now, i'd probably appreciate the dialogue and story a bit more.
Sense the Wonder!!.
Sad to think that the practical effects and model work in this movie will probably never be bettered. This might be the high point of that kind of film making.
Even state of the art CGI films like Prometheus which have a lot of work and thought put into the visuals don't quite match up.
Prometheus has state of the Art Cgi ?
I think First Contact (which was the last Star Trek movie to have practical effects) matches this and in some aspects outdoes it.
THE STAR OF "KING YISRA'EL".
Though I think star trek II is better I love this film and the ships are stunning
My favourite is Star Trek 4 - when they go whale hunting (so to speak)
Question??? If Klingon gave cloaking device and warp capability why didn't they use it to escape
Cloak may have still been detected by Vger. Also Klingons are known for their aggression and also can't fire while cloaked. It is also not in their nature to run away.
Ships plus space stations, not just ships
How comes you didn't use the Special Collectors Edition with the updated special effects?
No wonder the films so bloody long!
are any of these clips the new ones from the enhanced special edition.?
It doesn't look like they are, they seem more to come from the original version.
Why didn't you use the remastered version for this?
I AM V'GER LIGHTNING 553 - 17 -01 AS SAME, WITH Q. AND USS ENTERPRISE.