Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The human adventure is just beginning.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$35 000 000
Box office
$82 258 456
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Gene Roddenberry, Jon Povill, Jeffrey Katzenberg
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Harold Michelson, Harry Moreau
Audition
Marvin Paige
Editing
Todd C. Ramsay
Whole Team (68)
Whole Team (68)
Short description
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
What's left behind the scenes
- The voice of Majel Barrett, wife of Gene Roddenberry, who played Christine Chapel (as well as other characters, including Troi in the 1987 film "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), was also used to voice the computers of Starfleet—specifically, the onboard computer of the starship "Enterprise" from the "Star Trek" franchise (1966-1969) to the eleventh feature film "Star Trek" (2009). She voiced few lines, but the voice is easily recognizable.
- The character of Lieutenant Uhura, played by Indian model and actress Persis Khambatta, was intended to also appear in the subsequent television series.
- The film's production utilized sets and models created for the canceled series.
- Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, refused to appear in the upcoming series, and his character's place in the script was taken by the character of Zorn (actor David Gautreau). Upon learning that a film would be shot instead of a series, Nimoy agreed to participate in it. Thus, at the last moment, Spock returned to the script, and actor David Gautreau played the role of Commander Branch.
- The film was one of the first to feature composite shots created using the Vista Flex motion control system, which allowed for the combination of multiple objects and background elements filmed separately from each other in several exposures.
- To create the theme for V-Ger, composer Jerry Goldsmith used an experimental string instrument called the blaster-beam, invented in the 1970s.
- According to "The Guinness Book of Records," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) was the most expensive film upon its release, costing $46 million to produce. With the 1980 release of "Superman II," the combined budget of the first two Superman films reached $109 million, as they were filmed simultaneously as a single unit. The producers later stated that the production of the first film (1978) cost $55 million and the second $54 million, meaning the title of "most expensive film" should belong to them.
- The costumes of some alien races at Starfleet Headquarters were made from unused rolls of fabric left over from the filming of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
- Nichelle Nichols wrote in her autobiography that she was one of those who objected to the new uniforms sewn for the film, reasonably believing that her character, Uhura, was too beautiful for the dreary "unisex" style.
- The prop object "V-Ger" turned out to be so large that work on assembling some of its parts continued even during the filming of other parts.
- Following the resounding success of the television series "Star Trek", Paramount decided to release a full-length feature film based on the series. One plot was selected from several proposals (authored by well-known American science fiction writers), tentatively titled "Star Trek: Planet of the Titans" by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott. However, due to the immense popularity of the then-released film "Star Wars", the studio halted further work.
- Paramount planned to create its own television channel with the subsequent filming and showing of a new series, "Star Trek: Phase II". For this series, Gene Roddenberry created the script "The Return of the Robot", which was later reworked by Alan Dean Foster and given the title "The Counterfeiters". This plot was to be turned into a two-hour pilot episode of the new series. In 1977, Paramount Pictures decided to cancel work on the new series, and the completed script was decided by the company's producer Michael Eisner to be used in creating a feature film. However, preparations for creating the series continued until 1978.
- The voice of Majel Barrett, wife of Gene Roddenberry, who played Christine Chapel (as well as other characters, including Troi in the 1987 film "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), was also used to voice the Starfleet computers—specifically, the onboard computer of the starship Enterprise across the franchise from "Star Trek" (1966-1969) to the eleventh feature film "Star Trek" (2009). She voiced only a few lines, but her voice is easily recognizable.
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