Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) on Netflix
PG19792h 12mAdventureMysterySci-Fi
An alien cloud destroys everything in its path as it heads for Earth. Admiral James T. Kirk takes command of the refitted Enterprise to intercept it, displacing Captain Willard Decker.
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In the 23rd century, a monitoring station called Epsilon Nine detects an alien entity hidden inside a vast energy cloud that is moving toward Earth. The cloud destroys three Klingon warships and the station itself. The starship Enterprise, recently rebuilt and barely tested, is the only vessel in range, so Starfleet sends it to intercept the intruder. James T. Kirk, now an admiral, uses his authority to take the command back from Captain Willard Decker, who oversaw the refit and becomes his first officer. The shakedown goes badly, and the untested engines nearly destroy the ship. Commander Spock joins as science officer, drawn by a consciousness he sensed inside the cloud.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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- Nimoy had been dissatisfied with unpaid royalties from Star Trek and did not intend to reprise the role, so Spock was left out of the screenplay. Director Robert Wise sent Jeffrey Katzenberg to New York City, and Katzenberg later recalled himself on my knees begging the actor at a restaurant to join the film.
- Wise reportedly became angry during a viewing of Abel's completed effects, of which the studio decided only one was usable, and Paramount fired RA&A on February 22, 1979, having spent $5 million and a year's worth of time with the company.
- Khambatta had no qualms about shaving her head at first but began worrying whether her hair would grow back properly. Roddenberry proposed insuring her hair, believing it would be good publicity, but legal teams determined the scheme would be very costly, and the studio instead paid for six facials and scalp treatments at a Beverly Hills salon.
- Despite tight security around production, in February 1978 the head of an Orange County Star Trek fan group reported to the FBI that a man had offered to sell plans of the film set. The seller was convicted of stealing a trade secret, fined $750 and sentenced to two years' probation.
- The V'ger set, which the production staff called the Coliseum or the microwave wok, was designed and fabricated in four and a half weeks and was filmable from all angles. During production the film used 11 of Paramount's 32 sound stages, more than any other film done there at the time.
- Property master Dick Rubin set up a makeshift office in the corner of stage 9 and held that nearly every actor or extra ought to have something in their hands, so he devised and fabricated about 350 props for the film, 55 of which were used in the San Francisco tram scene alone.
- The final production cost ballooned to approximately $44 million and the film earned $139 million worldwide, short of studio expectations but enough for Paramount to propose a less expensive sequel.
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