star trek: the motion picture

[70], In the original series, divisions in ship assignments were denoted by shirt color; for the movie, these color codes were moved to small patches on each person's uniform. The only prop that remained from the original television series was Uhura's wireless earpiece, which Nichols specifically requested on the first day of shooting (and all the production crew save those who had worked on the television show had forgotten about). Kline recalled that there was not a single "easy" shot to produce for the picture, as each required special consideration. When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it. But on its own terms it's a very well-made piece of work, with an interesting premise. On October 8, 1976, Bryant and Scott delivered a 20-page treatment, Planet of the Titans, which executives Barry Diller and Michael Eisner liked. Cole and Povill rented an oscilloscope for a day and filmed its distortions. To move away from that look, Michelson created a new, bent and angular design. [151] When Apollo suggests that humans need a new pantheon of gods, Kirk dismisses the idea with the words, "We find the one quite sufficient." I wanted it to be this beautiful, epic, spectacular sequence that had no dialogue, no story, no plot, everything stops, and let the audience just love the Enterprise. They worked on designs for planets, planetary and asteroid bases, a black hole "shroud", a crystalline "super brain", and new concepts for the Enterprise, including interiors that Adam later revisited for the film Moonraker and a flat-hulled starship design (frequently credited to McQuarrie, but which McQuarrie's own book identifies as an Adam design[30]). [122] The torpedo effects were simulated by shooting a laser through a piece of crystal mounted on a rotating rod after experiments with Tesla coils proved insufficient. Book Origins. Spock takes an unauthorized spacewalk to the vessel's interior and attempts a telepathic mind meld with it. The idea for Phase II was that Chekov would have looked out toward space while cross-hairs in the bubble tracked targets. Having monitored the surprise attack, Federation space station Epsilon IX is still unable to prevent itself from becoming the next victim of this vast, mysterious energy cloud. [135] The final recording session finished at 2:00 am on December 1,[128] only five days before the film's release. [20], Roddenberry had first proposed a Star Trek feature at the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention. Before costs could be determined and Weldon could shop for necessary items, he and the other members of the special effects team worked out all possibilities for pulling off the effects in a convincing manner. [131], Much of the recording equipment used to create the movie's intricately complicated sound effects was, at the time, extremely cutting-edge. Trumbull was busy on Close Encounters, and was tired of being ignored as a director and having to churn out special effects for someone else's production; after completing the effects work, Trumbull planned on launching his own feature using a new film process. now. Bones says V'Ger says its creator is a machine, to which Decker replies "We all create God in our own image. [4] The Motion Picture was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction (Harold Michelson, Joseph R. Jennings, Leon Harris, John Vallone and Linda DeScenna), Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Score. There were difficulties in communication, as the shoemaker spoke limited English and occasionally confused shoe orders due to similar-sounding names. [148], When The Motion Picture was announced, many synthesizer artists submitted demo tapes to Paramount. The human adventure is just beginning.. [105][115] The Glencoe-based facilities the teams had used for Close Encounters were deemed insufficient, and a nearby facility was rented and outfitted with five more stages equipped with camera tracks and systems. [7][24] The film was postponed until spring (March/April) 1976 while Paramount fielded new scripts for Star Trek II (the working title) from acclaimed writers such as Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, and Harlan Ellison. [39], On March 28, 1978, Paramount assembled the largest press conference held at the studio since Cecil B. DeMille announced he was making The Ten Commandments. [62] The Enterprise was revised again after Abel & Associates were dismissed. McDonald's sold specially designed Star Trek Happy Meals. [161] The marketing was part of a coordinated approach by Paramount and its parent conglomerate Gulf+Western to create a sustained Star Trek product line. With the cancellation of Phase II, writers rushed to adapt its planned pilot episode, "In Thy Image", into a film script. David Gerrold estimated before its release that the film would have to gross two to three times its budget to be profitable for Paramount. All There in the Manual: He's the son of Commodore Matt Decker from the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine". By June 30, he had produced what he considered an acceptable script, but studio executives disagreed. [51], Aside from control interfaces, the bridge set was populated with monitors looping animations. The cloud easily destroys three of the Klingon Empire's new K't'inga-class warships when they fire on it and disintegrates Epsilon Nine when it tries to investigate. Here's this gigantic machine that's a million years further advanced than we are. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first Star Trek movie, released in 1979.As well as the novelization there was a comic adaptation, all released in December with the film. Koenig learned that rather than being released in 14 days after his scenes were completed, his last day would be on October 26—eight weeks later than expected. Roddenberry was forced out of creative control for the sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. [117], Post-production was so late that Paramount obtained an entire MGM sound stage to store 3,000 large metal containers for each theater around the country. Admiral James T. Kirk is ordered to take command of the USS Enterprise for the first time since her historic five-year mission. James T. Kirk now an admiral, and his crew must save humanity from an alien ship steadily approaching Earth and destroying everything in its path. [Star Trek: The Motion Picture] Director Robert Wise patted my shoulder and said, ‘Come on, Persis, this is costing about $10,000 a minute.’ He was joking, but I got the point in a hurry.” It was hard to frame shots so that reflections of the crew in monitors or light spilling through floor grilles were not seen in the final print. Showing all 4 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Synopsis (1) Summaries. 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the first Star Trek movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.All year long fans of the movie have been wondering if Paramount would do anything to celebrate. Livingston returned as writer, and though he also found Roddenberry unreasonable, Wise and Katzenberg convinced him to continue rewriting the script throughout production.[7]. [53] Michelson wanted the engine room to seem vast, a difficult effect to achieve on a small sound stage. Helicopter lights, 4,000-watt lamps and wind machines were used to create the effect of Decker's fusion with the living machine. Features. Roddenberry had insisted that the technology aboard the Enterprise be grounded in established science and scientific theories. Directed by Robert Wise. Although irked by the rejection, Goldsmith consented to rework his initial ideas. [128] Several state-of-the-art synthesizers were used as musical instruments, notably the Yamaha CS-80, ARP 2600, Oberheim OB-X, and Serge synthesizer. Wise, Kline, and Abel had been unable to agree on how to photograph the sequence, and the result was a poorly designed and ungainly effect that Trumbull was convinced was disruptive to the plot and would have cost millions to fix. [89] Security swept cars leaving the lots for stolen items; even the principal actors were not spared this inconvenience. Check out our gallery of the 2021 Oscar nominees in the leading and supporting acting categories, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life. [155], To coincide with the film's release, Pocket Books published a novelization written by Roddenberry. Changes included "radiator grill" nacelle caps, a glowing deflector dish, a new impulse engine, new shapes for the aft end and hangar doors of the secondary hull, more docking ports, rounder windows, hatches, and windows for an observation lounge, recreation deck, and arboretum. This was a uniquely creative and enormous effort, and considering the technological limitations, the demands of the studio, and the many demands of the Star Trek Bible that qualified the creation of the movie. [119] The Klingon cruiser sequence was developed to avoid an opening similar to Star Wars, with one model used for all three seen in the film. Probert also replaced the Phase II ship weapons tube with a twin launcher torpedo deck and added elements such as features for a separating saucer and landing pads that were never utilized on any film featuring the model.[21]. Red gel lights appeared orange upon reviewing the daily footage; the lights were faulty, and three people were nearly electrocuted. [8] By the time The Motion Picture was finished, $26 million was spent on the film itself, while $18 million had been spent on sets for the undeveloped Phase II series, much of which were not used for the film itself, which brought the total cost of the movie to $44 million. Jumpsuits, serving a more utilitarian function, were the only costumes to have pockets, and were made with a heavyweight spandex that required a special needle to puncture the thick material. Other actors from the television series who returned included Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel, a doctor aboard the Enterprise,[17][18] and Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand, formerly one of Kirk's yeomen. By October 1976, Robert Silverberg had been signed to work on the screenplay along with a second writer, John D. F. Black, whose treatment featured a black hole that threatened to consume all of existence. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. First detected when passing through Klingon territory in the 2270s, V'ger was unlike anything that Starfleet had ever encountered. The blue color of previous uniforms was discarded, for fear they might interfere with the blue screens used for optical effects. A plywood base was built on metal platforms to create stone silhouettes, reinforced with chicken wire. Canby wrote that the film "owes more to [Trumbull, Dykstra and Michelson] than it does to the director, the writers or even the producer". [114], Trumbull recalled that Wise "trusted me implicitly" as a fellow director to complete the effects and "fix this for him". The Star Trek: The Motion Picture Soundtrack is the Ultimate Meditation Mixtape. )[78][8], In the decade between the end of the Star Trek television series and the film, many of the futuristic technologies that appeared on the show—electronic doors that open automatically, talking computers, weapons that stun rather than kill, and personal communication devices—had become a reality. "[204] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the actors did not have much to do in the effects-driven film, and were "limited to the exchanging of meaningful glances or staring intently at television monitors, usually in disbelief". [8] A final draft of the third act was approved in late September 1978, but had it not been for a Penthouse interview where NASA director Robert Jastrow said that mechanical forms of life were likely, the ending might not have been approved at all. Ilia reminds Sulu of her oath of celibacy, and Decker informs Ilia that the captain didn't mean anything personally, and Ilia says she would never take advantage of a sexually immature species. Well, Jim, I hear Chapel's an M.D. [95] Yellowstone was selected after filming in Turkish ruins proved to be too expensive. The prop came with a hefty $4000 price tag; to save money, the lights were dropped, reducing the size of the phaser by a third. 9×12 inches. [63][105] A similar method was used on the Klingon cruiser model, but he made it less well-lit to convey a different look than the clean visuals of the Federation—the cruiser was meant to evoke "an enemy submarine in World War II that's been out at sea for too long". Star Trek I: The Motion Picture. [205] Livingston felt that Trumbull and Dykstra's work on the film was not as impressive as on Star Wars and Close Encounters due to the limited amount of production time. Production was moved to April 1978 so that the necessary scripts, sets, and wardrobe could be upgraded. Roddenberry was allocated $3 to $5 million to develop a script. Each sequence was then storyboarded and left to Kline to execute. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (OST) - V'Ger Flyover. [8][54], Redesigning the Enterprise corridors was also Michelson's responsibility. [112] By then Trumbull was supervising effects, greatly reducing Abel's role. Decker goes to help Spock, and we return to the theatrical footage of the second (or third) energy torpedo being fired. Most of the bridge consoles, designed by Lee Cole, remained from the scrapped television series. Even better maybe. The red, black, and gold brocade was woven with real gold and silver wrapped around silk thread; the resulting costume was used for a Betelgeusean ambassador and, at a price of $10,000 for the fabric alone, was the most expensive costume ever worn by a Hollywood extra. The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions to learn all that can be learned and return that information to its creator. When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation conspiracy against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion. [8] Because of likely changes, actors were at first told to not memorize the last third of the script,[45] which received constant input from actors and producers. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. They are a relief from the stars, and a delight." [19], The original Star Trek television series ran for three seasons from 1966 to 1969 on NBC. 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