In 1979 we hadn't yet been saturated with 30 years of CGI/FX-driven movies and TV shows. Star Wars was 2 years old and Empire Strikes Back was still a year away. Alien was released the same year. We also hadn't seen Trek cast/crew in anything new in 10 years. So when TMP came out, many of us were willing to sit through it in the theater (multiple times) to drink in and savor all of it. There was no guarantee of another movie or TV series. Almost all of the special effects still hold up. Not as satisfying to watch as Wrath of Khan, of course, but I still enjoy watching the full-length TMP.

"Did we just see the beggining of a new life form" "Yes Captain" Abrubtly ends. I burst out laughing.

The whole point of setting up V'ger to be "an incredible enemy" was to show that its power exceeded that of the federation and that the only way to defeat it would be through reason, not force. They didn't "beat" V'ger, they gave it the answer it had come searching for. This is the whole point of the film. This is real Sci-fi, about big ideas, not some dumb JJ Abrams abortion that needs to culminate in an visually congested space battle.

I would've included Spock's line "This simple feeling... is beyond V'ger's comprehension." It was the main point of that scene.

You left out "Phoootooon tooorpeedoooes"

Keep in mind that it was a reunion film for those fans who were waiting, after rumors of phase II, to see star trek again. There had to be a milking of perspective scenes that show how big the enterprise is and the vastness of startfleet an technology that was not shown in the original series of the 60s. It was a visual love affair between the fans and what was shown on the screen.

I DIDN'T SEE ANY LENS FLARES!

I love Bones' humor "Your child is having a tantrum"

Nice thing to watch while waiting for kirk to reach the Enterprise

For a split second there, when Spock was trying to mind meld with V'ger, he did a wonderful impression of John Sterling making a NY Yankees game winning call.

For such a short clip, I think you did an admirable job of giving us the essence of the movie. I can fill in most of the blanks with my mind. Thank you!! From an OLD Trekkie 😉

I remember seeing this film 🎥 in High School 🏫 in 1979 when I was 19.There are some great 👍 ‘ being remembered ‘here!

God damn I miss movies like this. I saw this as a kid and it generated absolute wonder deep within my soul. The spacedock scenes everyone seems to feel were so long were like the Enterprise making love with my imagination. Pure love. It works because that's the way you would react if you were there, on that shuttle instead of Kirk. Just drinking in the magnificence of this huge, amazing thing in front of you. And then the music pushes that feeling of wonder to it's ultimate level.

Agreed. After waiting a decade for more live-action Star Trek, I enjoyed every minute of this movie in the theater.

I think my video summarises the good bits of this film pretty well. The main reason to watch the whole film would be to see the extended SFX sequences, if that's the kinda thing that floats your boat. They do look amazing though. Think 2001: a space odyssey, but slightly slicker and less psychedelic. If you wanted to watch more Star Trek films then 2, 4 and 6 would have my highest recommendation (yes, the even numbered ones).

Very nicely done. I tried something like this 6-years ago for, "Willow," to make it 10-minutes long and it was promptly deleted by KZfaq staff. Nice to know they're more lenient with videos today. Would've liked to see in this cut the attack on the Enterprise where they survive a hit from V'ger and the 2nd evaporates as Spock makes contact.

It's almost like saying you wanted the Discovery to have a space battle with the Monolith at the end of 2001

"Did we see the beginning of a new life form?" "Yes, Captain" The end lol Oh how I wish this was the real version of the film.

Bones: Spock, this "child" is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?

at this time Khan was waiting for revenge

I would have had a ten-minute shot of the crew watching the V'Ger cloud on the big screen, and then the end credits.

Nobody can flummox a computer like Kirk.

Absolutely I will not interfere! lol.

This edit misses out why you would want to watch TMP. The characters and their interactions, reflections on the nature of existence and the path of evolution, and the spectacle of the universe.

"The Motion Picture" is basically a 45-minute TV episode blown up to two hours.

I love Chekov's accent :)

Why do so many people hate TMP? I LOVE the movie!

the video quality is king.

Shatners acting is so riveting ;D

Love this movie. So late 70s in a charming way

Thank you!! That was wonderful!! I'll never have to endure that movie again, except in 10-minute blurbs!!

Issac Assimov is probably one of the fathers, or if not THE father of modern science fiction, true science fiction that went into the real of philosophy. Although he and Gene Roddenberry were later friend, he attacked Star Trek at the beginning for being inaccurate in many ways and even thought it was "dumb". Gene had to explain that his true goal with Trek was to make some of the issues important to sci-fi accessible to general audiences and TV also had big limitations.

Yep. I still remember the first time I saw it - was magical!

Persis khambatta died of a massive heart attack she was a beautiful lady. The Star Trek movies were brilliant films.

"YOU ARE THE KIRK UNIT!" XD

That's exactly all we needed - although this edit removes both Rand and Chapel.

Wow. Persis Khambatta is proof that some women do not need hair to be beautiful. What a perfectly shaped and smooth head she has. She is absolutley stunning in this movie.

"The main reason to watch the whole film would be to see the extended SFX sequences" And to see all the character interaction and philosophical intrigue which you blatantly ripped right out of it.

From Memory Alpha: "According to the Borg Queen, the species known as the Borg started out as normal lifeforms without any cybernetic enhancements thousands of centuries ago. Over the years, they evolved into a mixture of organic and artificial life. It is believed that the Borg originated in the Delta Quadrant, where they already existed in 1484. At that time, only a handful of star systems had been assimilated by them." So the Borg pre-date the events of TMP by a long way.

The Klingons stole prototypes for the Virtual Boy.

I was so craving this. Just to watch the film but not to watch the whole film. God bless you.

Incredible production … power of creation! Thank You for sharing this, it’s Awesome. 🤔 🧐 😎

Thank you. Made more sense than when I saw the full movie! Well done.

Loved your work! Thanks!

A one-hour edit would capture more nuance, of course. Plus you could have that scene where Kirk sees the Enterprise for the first time in years, with that wonderful Goldsmith score. Spock on Vulcan would be nice to see too. Yeah, the original ST:TMP plods along a bit slow. It is an excellent science fiction film. Just not for everybody.

I don't think it was too long at all. I was seven when I first saw this in the theaters and was engrossed the whole movie. Then again, we didn't have rampant ADHD back then. We actually had these things called "attention spans".

Very good editing - you should work in the industry ! the only thing i would have included Kirk and Spock's reunion with the crew ( particularly Spock's ) that was a large part of the film - maybe in a longer version

I was going to buy this movie and found this abbreviated version. I do recall the movie was very long and this does hit all the highlights. Well done.

My experience of this film is watching it on a battered vhs. From the start, right up to the first encounter with V’ger. Then skip to the end and watch Wrath of Khan again preempt ting every line of dialogue 💪

John Burns, you very accurately summarized this movie. I like it!

Just saw this video, viewed the comments and saw one was from 10 years ago and that was 2011. Ten years ago? Where did time go. It's 2021 and I'm seeing this for the first time. I loved this movie, it is a real Star Trek movie, confronting issues like Spock acting like a computer, Kirk commandeering the ship, Doc bitching as usual, etc. But what I liked so much is the overall story, yes it is a little too long, the Klingons who looked like some angry predator roaming the jungle, seeing the old crew back and the newly rebuilt Enterprise. It's more than a popcorn movie, but popcorn works well at the theater. It is a thinking person's movie. This is what Star Trek was all about. Not cowboy and Indians fighting it out, no mindless shootouts, no massive explosions, no bare naked women, it was Star Trek.

Why do the security personnel look like they are wearing purple bowling balls on their heads?

THANK YOU so much for saving me from hours of wasted time! Seven of Nine says you are "most efficient." Thanks for this!

The latest Missionlog: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, had a bit to say about the years leading up to the making of this film. In their TOS series, they also noted how this was a re-telling of a TOS episode. ( I know, they broke the timeline, but sometimes, timelines have to be broken.)

As much as it may be seen as a long drawn out film... I think a ten minute version is waaay too short to have any impact.... it only works for us because we have all seen the movie. Anyone who has never seen it wouldn't have a clue about what is happening - or even care about the story and characters, but a nice experiment

Well done! I remember seeing this as a young boy when it was first released and it was interminable. Nothing happens for SUCH a long time, there's so little action! NOT the film I wanted to see at 10 years old. Some great SF ideas here, but we want to see this distant planet full of living machines close up too, don't we?

Though it may have been a little drawn-out without much to the plot, it still had a top-notch & cutting-edge soundtrack, and a lot of the special effects were well done. It is what introduced me to Star Trek in 1983, when I was 6, so I'll always have an affinity for it. For the plot, it has a rather eerie, dark, mysterious, and suspenseful feel. I enjoy the nostalgic trip, but it is sad that those days are gone forever.

This is good. I would like to see what you could do with a 45 minute edit, to make it more in line with an episode from the Original Series.

How did V-Ger accumulate all the knowledge in the universe in less than 300 years? Also, Decker says it was launched "over 300 years ago", Voyager II launched in 1977. VI would have launched after that. ST The Motion Picture was set in 2273. That's less than 300 years after launch. Finally, when Decker merged with the probe, did they become Q?

Wow. This was actually really good. Nice!

I can't believe I'm saying this, because I thought that The Motion Picture was the most boring Star Trek movie, even if it wasn't the worst--that honor goes to 5 and the TNG movies--but I think that this edit actually cuts out too much. There's some good stuff with Spock on Vulcan, and I like Jim's return to the Enterprise. Still, I feel like the problem with this movie was that they were trying too hard to go for a 2001 thing. It compromised the pace and the visual look drastically.

Back in 1979 we called it "The Slow-Motion Picture." Everybody so so excited for fresh Star Trek (especially after Star Wars) but I remember we all felt pretty disappointed after this snooze fest (though not as much as we did after "Return of the Jedi"). Thank God it made enough money to warrant a sequel.

The movie didn't seem slow to me, but I saw it in 1979 and was probably drunk at the time. I had seen Star Wars a couple years earlier and was happy to see sci-fi making a resurgence, but while Star Wars was a classic space opera, this movie was barely an improvement over the trash that passed as 1970s sci-fi since Kubrick's "2001". These days young people think it was a steady progression from TOS to the movies to TV, but at the time, we never thought it would come back. It had been 9 years!

This...simple... feeling 🖖

Good stuff, I started watching this movie but not understanding Klingon and Vulcan annoyed me. This is exactly what I needed.

So much in common with The Changeling from TOS.

You'd prefer computer graphics that make everything look like a cartoon? I prefer the older effects myself, because they're actually physically done and not just drawn in.

Interestingly when one adjusts for inflation, Star Trek The Motion Picture, is the most successful of all the Star Trek films. It is a great Sci-fi mystery adventure,

I wouldn't say it's hard to watch, it's definitely slowly paced, which the Directors cut helps to fix, but during those long drawn out sequences, it's more about the admiration of the special effects, which I was surprised at how good they were, then about the story or plot. It felt very unique as a film since it's focus was on landscape and philosophy instead of "action and drama" as which is seen so common nowadays.

Funny. The machines from Machine Planet were able to construct such a big fat technodrome but were NOT able to clean the lable and to see that V-Ger actually is Voyager :P

how dare you do this its a classic .BUTCHER

Thanks, you saved me 3 hours.

the electric power beam is just how it feels. Ahhhhh, god.

i absolutely agree

Sometimes, finding one's identity is better than a battle. That's what V'ger wanted. To know who it was.

While the motion picture is a "slow sci-fi movie" and there were many other slow sci-fi movies that did slow sci-fi better than TMP, it is still very much star trek and looking back on it, being a TNG fan more than any of the other series, i see it more fondly that perhaps others do.

i really like this film mainly cos its very different to the other films, its a stand alone film, apparently when this film was in production the film was about 3 hrs long id would have liked to have seen what they actually cut out! i love this film mainly cos of the music is unique and the visual effects are amazing i just wish they released the directors edition on blu ray.

it amazes me how much different from the original series is from this in terms of style. In this style it seems more of a modern day sci fi setting than back in the 60's I even wonder how a star trek series would look now in 2012 if done.

Perfect synthesis of the movie!

But... but... where are the three hours of reaction shots to V'ger?

I don't believe Gene Roddenberry never really wanted to turn Star Trek into an action story. Sure there are space battles, but overall, Star Trek that really most of us love is slow, procedural, with very good writing. The Next Generation basically. While there have been good Star Trek action films, the only director that in my opinion who was good at them was Nicholas Meyer. JJ Abrams just makes "guilty pleasures".

TMP is more about the experience of traveling through V'Ger than watching a movie with a great story. Its a hard movie to watch, but if you're in the mood, it can be very immersive.

Not as boring as the original, but it not only has all the gaps in logic as the original, but adds new ones (as well as continuity problems and a general feeling of being rushed). I also wish some of the more cheesy moments (e.g. the ridiculous smiles when Ilia enters) had been cut.

One of the ST video games showed that V-Ger was created by the Borg...a computer race that wanted to accumulate knowledge.

Richard H. Kline's cinematography on this film is astonishing.

Surprisingly complete.

Next time I want to watch the motion picture... I will watch this.

Great job!

I'm trying to figure out the relevance of the last sentence.

One of the best😊

V'ger....sent by the borg.

Fascinating.

Well done

The end was great! Blammo... credits

That's a killer ending (last 10 sec.). Enjoyed it.

what do you do when something like this really happens? nothing? react, think and plan.

Saves watching the whole film again...got more

this is the first heard of this into turn Q I think it have something do with the beginning of the Borg.

1:17 she will be getting plenty of that on the enterprise.

Kirk was TOO STOIC in this flick.