Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979).
“The New Enterprise”.
William Shatner As Admiral James T. Kirk.
James Doohan As Cmdr. Montgomery Scott.
Music by Jerry Glodsmith.
Directed by Robert Wise.
Paramount Pictures.
Duration : 0:7:44
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Always hated that …
Always hated that teleporter effect.
I Cried !
I Cried !
Drij86 Rocks !!!
Drij86 Rocks !!!
If I’m honest, I …
If I’m honest, I think this intro takes far too long. I much prefer the one of the recent movie. Short and sweet.
Too bad they don’t …
Too bad they don’t use models anymore. Something about using models for ships and what not, it adds a more realistic look to them than these CGI models.
Hey FYI if you take …
Hey FYI if you take a closer look at that space station in the beginning, then turn it upside down, you get Regula I’s space station from Star Trek II
still brings a tear …
still brings a tear to the eye like it did when i saw it on its release…the music and the ship are just awesome…..classic!!!
Scotty lied about …
Scotty lied about the Enterprise being ready on time; the warp engines were not working properly.
Great new book (Did …
Great new book (Did These Stories Really happen?) at amazon has Shatner dedication!
Great new book (Did …
Great new book (Did these stories really happen?) at amazon has Shatner dedication!
She was gorgeous …
She was gorgeous over 30 years ago, and the new Enterprise went full circle in 2009.
Something tells me Abrams was planning that.
I just think that …
I just think that epic sci-fi was done better in the 60s to early 80s. Maybe the last great EPIC sci-fi film was Tron in 1982. I did like “Moon” from last year, but that’s not EPIC sci-fi.
@manco82 For the …
@manco82 For the most part, I think the writing, editing, directing, and the music of the older movies was better. I also think that they put more work into making the special effects look as real as possible. If you go back and watch Star Trek 2, look at the scene where the Reliant is chasing the Enterprise into the nebula and look at how real the ships look. The filmmakers of years ago made better use of what they had. That’s what it boils down to.
I think that we can …
I think that we can see a side of humanity in science fiction that is rarely trod on by other genre. Of the great fictions, namely Star Gate, Star Wars, and Star Trek we can respectively see who we are, over coming what we fear becoming, and the ideal future of Humanity.
This scene for me brings back many memories of late nights and locker side conversations. I may be a Picard fan at heart, but this brought tears to my eyes the first time I saw it.
@mymyharlow I agree …
@mymyharlow I agree with every point you made, sir. I’ve been wondering of late why no one uses models any more for this sort of thing; is CG actually cheaper? Because really, it doesn’t look much, if any better (to me).
i don’t know about …
i don’t know about the rest of you but this was actually one of my favorite parts of the movie. the music, the introduction of the enterprise, and the emotions running through kirk just make this scene so memorable.
Erm, I’d hate to …
Erm, I’d hate to interrupt the philosophy discussion on new vs. old Sci-Fi movies, but does anyone know where I can watch the whole thing online?
It doesn’t look like anyone’s showing it on TV any time soon, and I’d feel awkward renting it.
Also, just to feel like I’m contributing something, I’m 19 and I can appreciate things for their time and context, regardless of effects being outdated, to me that has nothing to do with story; I can like reboot trek and old trek simultaneously ._.
Muy buena, serie es …
Muy buena, serie es de lo mejor.
Dont forget Alien.
Dont forget Alien.
Dont forget Alien.
Dont forget Alien.
the old girl looked …
the old girl looked beautifull, theres a lot to be said for the special effects back in the day, they built 20ft long scale models, now its all cg and the more realistic they make the graphics the more they lose the feel of the real world
@manco82. I so much …
@manco82. I so much agree with you in this. I’ve been wondering for some time about this. Include Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I suspect it has to do with the fact that Americans were not originally lovers of sci-fi. Remember, the first really good sci-fi was German, e.g. Metropolis. What that suggests to me is that the 70′s and 80′s represented a transitional period, where only VERY WELL written and produced ideas became movies. Today, sci-fi no longer has to pass that high standard.
@manco82. I so much …
@manco82. I so much agree with you on this. I’ve been wondering about this myself for a long while now. Include Close Encounters of the Third Kind. One possible explanation is that Americans were not originally lovers of Sci-Fi in general. At least that’s my understanding–remember one of the earliest sci-fi movies was Metropolis, German made. What this suggests is that only VERY well written and well produced sci-fi ideas got all the way to the theaters. Today, anything sci-fi gets produced.
i’ve always thought …
i’ve always thought that too. theres something dreamlike about big movies from that era, it just seems that those movies capture apart of fantasy that we all would like to experience in our own lives.
I wonder how many …
I wonder how many horse power the starship Enterprise is?