Confession: I love Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[DerekG]

Seriously, I just viewed the director's cut of the much-maligned ST:TMP and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was admittedly clinical and remote, lacking the warmth of II-VI, but it remains the only one of the features to possess the spirit of exploration. The thing was bloody epic in scope; I never felt such awe and dread during a Trek production than when the Enterprise traversed V'ger. Best of all is the sublime music: Goldsmith's score is among the greatest ever produced for a science fiction film.

What say ye, Trekkies?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I've always loved it

Thought it was a great, incredible movie, full of Trekkiness, and probably the most artistic of any Trek movie or episode ever.

And the new director's cut version is even better!

I've never understood the maligning of the movie.

excellent every way possible.

if I had to find a problem/fault with it, it would be the somewhat cliche "guy we've never seen before, who's supposed to be captain, gets railroaded out of that spot and ends up finding lost love and descides to sacrifice himself for study of the alien being". That was a bit overwrought, but what the hell. Still a great movie.

[Bucky]

2. It was boring: nothing blew up!! McCoy as a prospector? Spock as a monk?!

Ridiculous. Plus it started the silly tradition of introducing new characters into the line up so they could be killed off right away.

Blech.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. "Started?" Two words: red shirt. (nt)

[James T. Kirk]

3. It was important, but not the best.

It has many good elements, but it is not the first Trek show I'd choose to watch on a rainy afternoon.

It must be watched every few years, though.

[moof]

4. It was a very good film.

Anything that brings into question what we really are as human beings is a wonderful thing.

The fact that 20 years had passed with nothing for Star Trek
seemed to have made the awareness that no matter what anyone thought
of the movie it was way better than more of the past 20 years.

It seems a shame that if your avatar represents what most people would assume ti think it does the think piece that the movie represents is going to mbe lost on you, but it's nice that you enjoyed it as much as people that had no restrictions on what reality could be.

Rabrrrrrr,

again what can be said, moof is Rabrrrrrr.

unit contained within Carbon unit moof almost ready to beam up.

[Gore1FL]

5. I liked 2 and 3

4, 5, and 6 were progressively stupider until they Made "Generations, which was little more than a 2-hour plot hole.

The Borg one "First contact?"proved they could come up with stupider plots involving time travel than any depth imaginable by any fan, while changing the characters wildly from what they had beocme in the show.

So comparatively, I like the first one too.

[Gildor Inglorion]

6. Me, too!

n/t

[TOhioLiberal]

7. Its a good one...

...now if you want to see real crap, watch Star Trek V:Final Frontier. Or as I like to call it, 'the Search For God'. Up until 'Nemesis' came out, it was the Trek I'd seen least (twice). I have seen Nemesis once, and let me tell you, thats 1 1/2 hours of my life I'll never get back. Blech!

[Love Bug]

8. The best description of the movie I've ever heard

The best description of ST:TMP I've ever heard is that it was good science fiction but bad Star Trek. Star Trek is fundamentally a space opera--ST:TMP was much too cerebral for that. Change the actors and the other ST trappings and this movie probably would be on the same pedestal as 2001: A Space Odyssey.

On edit: By saying "much too cerebral" I don't mean to suggest space opera can't be intelligent or deliver a message. ST was excellent at delivering messages and making you think.

[King Of Paperboys]

9. Kirk wore too much eyeliner.

It made him look slutty.

[Commendatori]

10. I'm sorry, but that movie was putrid.

Slow, boring and predictable. Even worst than the fifth.

The second one was twice as good as any other film in the series, old cast or new.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. What BOD Said!

The Professor