The outfit It was not created by me. It’s one of Robert Fletcher’s costume concept art from The Motion Picture (which, unfortunately, does not appear in the film).
Front cover for Town Mook’s 1982 Super-Visual Magazine, Issue #8, devoted to the third part of a “complete visual guide of Star Trek,” something of a treasure trove for fans in Japan at the time. It’s laden with episode images and synopses for the Original Series, a guide to Star Trek: The Animated Series, material about the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and a preview of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. There’s even a full-color guide to the guest stars of Star Trek, with a heavy focus on the women.
If I were less precious about the magazines I spent over $40 on, I’d break the spine on this 110+ page guide to scan it, but, alas, I am not less precious about my expensive Japanese magazines.
Inspired no doubt by the licensing campaign that turned Star Wars into a revenue juggernaut for Lucasfilm, Paramount was eager to capitalize on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in many of the same ways George Lucas’s team found success: by selling cheap crap directly to kids through products they were already buying.
That’s why we’ve got this M&M/Mars tie in that lets you send in five candy bar wrappers and a buck fifty for a five ship mobile (featuring the K’Tinga class Klingon cruiser, refit Enterprise, Vulcan shuttle, worker bee, and shuttlepod) or, if you were feeling luxe, you could pony up $4.50 and two “Guarantee of Satisfaction” statements from bags of Milky Way, Snickers, or 3 Musketeers bars to get a pair of pajamas that were practically guaranteed to cause some sort of rash.
The extended mix of Bob James’ disco version of the theme to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, originally composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
As someone who loves disco and Star Trek, and especially ephemera connected to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I am downright baffled at the fact that I never knew this existed until today.
Some of Syd Mead’s concept paintings for V’Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. His first pieces of movie concept art, they’re the direct result of director Robert Wise’s demand that the movie show an object that “no man had ever seen.”
The medical tunic that DeForest Kelley sported in Star Trek: The Motion Picture andStar Trek II: The Search For Spock is up for auction at Heritage. With five days left and an opening bid of just $8,000, this gives you all plenty of time to rummage through your couch cushions and break open your Tellarite piggy banks.
Judging by the middling reviews at Board Game Geek, the box art is the single best part of Milton Bradley’s Star Trek game, loosely themed around Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I can’t track down who the painter for this piece was, but they did a superb job capturing the likenesses.
I’ll do a blow by blow of this reunion scene with Spock, Kirk and McCoy at some point. But this one line is so good. Kirk has been holding it together by a thread the whole movie. He’s trying to prove he can still command a ship, and he’s screwing up, and he feels old and useless and unwanted, and then Spock who’s been gone for so long finally, finally shows back up but he won’t just fucking sit in the goddamn chair and talk to him like he used to and Kirk loses it
Star Trek: the Motion Picture (1979). 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.
I love Star Trek a lot,but this is definitely not the franchise at its best. It’s a fairly generic space opera that never really grounds us in the crew we love, instead frequently sacrificing story for a lot of long, languid shots of space and a main plot that never really finds its footing. Not my favourite installment in the series by any stretch of the imagination, but still, it looks pretty good, and it’s still Star Trek. 6/10.
The question hung in the air like a gravity well in space.
“It seemed…logical, at the time.”
“That’s not good enough.” Jim couldn’t believe, wouldn’tbelieve, that mere logic was the reason for shattering the best thing that had happened to him.
“What would you have me say, Jim?” Spock’s voice was gentle; it was the most emotion he’d shown since returning to the ship.
“I - don’t know, Spock. Maybe there isn’t anything you can say.” Jim wrung his hands together. He inhaled sharply when Spock’s hands covered his.
De once said he was husky during Star Trek. I’d never describe him as husky (Shatner yes), but maybe the above time is when De meant. I’m swooning over his smile here… and the little flyaway hair.❤️❤️❤️❤️
1979
Everyone is looking trim for the first movie. Shatner said he started starving himself as soon as the movie was announced and Leonard was already thin. De is perfect— loving the gray hair at the temples (but you know how partial I am about him).
