Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Plot

When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the starship Enterprise, James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is an unhappy, desk-bound admiral at Starfleet headquarters. Kirk goes aboard his old vessel to observe its re-launch under new captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins). Soon, however, an escalating crisis causes Kirk to take command of his old ship. A mysterious, planet-sized energy force of enormous power is headed for Earth. Reunited with Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and the rest of his former colleagues, Kirk takes the Enterprise inside the massive energy cloud and discovers that it is the long-lost NASA space probe Voyager. Now a sentient being after accumulating centuries of knowledge in its deep space travels, the alien, which calls itself V'ger, has come home seeking its creator. Although not a critical home run, box office receipts for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) were strong enough to inspire a revamped television series and a long-running line of theatrical sequels. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Cast

• William Shatner - James T. Kirk
• Leonard Nimoy - Mr. Spock
• DeForest Kelley - Leonard "Bones" McCoy
• Stephen Collins - Cmdr. Willard Decker
• James Doohan - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
• George Takei - Hikaru Sulu
• Walter Koenig - Pavel Chekov

Majel Barrett - Christine Chapel; Persis Khambatta - Lt. Ilia; Nichelle Nichols - Uhura; Mark Lenard - Klingon Captain; Billy Van Zandt - Alien Boy; Grace Lee Whitney - Janice Rand; David Gautreaux - Commander Branch; Marcy Lafferty - Chief DiFalco; Michael Rougas - Lt. Cleary; Ralph Brannen - Crew Member; Roger Aaron Brown - Epsilon Technician; Ralph Byers - Crew Member; Paula Crist - Crew Member; Gary Faga - Airlock Technician; John D. Gowans - Assistant to Rand; Jon Rashad Kamal - Lt. Commander Sonak; Tom Morga - Klingon Crewman; Franklyn Seales - Crew Member; Paul Weber - Vulcan Master; Joel Kramer - Klingon Crewman; Momo Yashima - Crew Member; Susan Sullivan - Woman; Craig Thomas - Klingon Crewman

Credit

Joseph Jennings - Art Director, Leon R. Harris - Art Director, John Vallone - Art Director, Jon Povill - Associate Producer, Isaac Asimov - Consultant/advisor, Robert Fletcher - Costume Designer, Robert Wise - Director, Todd Ramsay - Editor, Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score), Fred Phillips - Makeup, Harold Michelson - Production Designer, Richard H. Kline - Cinematographer, Gene Roddenberry - Producer, Linda de Scenna - Set Designer, Douglas Trumbull - Special Effects, John Dykstra - Special Effects, Harry Moreau - Special Effects, Dave Stewart - Special Effects, Richard Yuricich - Special Effects, Robert Swarthe - Special Effects, Marv Ystrom - Special Effects, Don Baker - Special Effects, Steve Maslow - Sound/Sound Designer, Phil Rawlins - Unit Production Manager, Alan Dean Foster - Screen Story, Harold Livingston - Screenwriter, Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor, Philip Barberio - Visual Effects

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