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Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition to Premiere on Paramount+ on First Contact Day

The adventure that started it all makes a triumphant return

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Eagerly anticipated by Star Trek fans for over two decades, Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition will make its long-awaited debut exclusively on Paramount+ on April 5, 2022, in celebration of First Contact Day. The film will be available to stream on Paramount+ in 4K Ultra HD on supported devices and platforms. The newly restored film will subsequently arrive on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in September from Paramount Home Entertainment. In addition, fans will have the opportunity to see the restored version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition on the big screen for the first time when Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures bring it to theaters for an exclusive two-day event on May 22 and May 25. Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 8 at FathomEvents.com.

Originally released in 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture became the fourth highest grossing movie of the year and earned three Academy Award® nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Music, Original Score. The film successfully launched the Star Trek franchise beyond the original television series, despite having been rushed to theaters with incomplete special effects and forced editing choices.

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In 2001, director Robert Wise revisited the film to refine the edit and enhance the visual effects. His updated vision was released on DVD in standard definition and embraced by fans but has never been available in higher definition until now. Meticulously assembled and restored by producer David C. Fein with preservationist Mike Matessino, both of whom originally collaborated with Wise, the film has been prepared for presentation in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ high dynamic range (HDR) and a new powerful and immersive Dolby Atmos® soundtrack. Fein and Matessino assembled a team of special effects experts, led by returning visual effects supervisor Daren Dochterman, and utilized the extensive resources in the Paramount Archives to recreate the effects not just in HD, but in Ultra HD. After more than six months of painstaking work, the updated movie looks and sounds better than ever while staying true to Wise’s original intention.

“I couldn’t be prouder and more thrilled to have completed the film in 4K,” said Fein. “Paramount offered unprecedented access to the original elements and exceptional support and the results are stunning. Utilizing the latest discoveries and innovations of modern film production, The Director’s Edition delivers so much more today than was previously possible. It’s an adventure you’ll never forget!”

The Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital releases will include HDR-10 and Dolby Vision,™ as well as Dolby Atmos®, accompanied by extensive new and legacy bonus content, which will be detailed at a later date.

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Back in 1979, when Robert Wise ’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture first debuted, Wise very much viewed the film’s theatrical release as a rough cut. Over the years, the first Star Trek movie has seen a number of retoolings, from the release of its extended cut in 1983, to a revised release in 2001 which included new CGI sequences and a soundtrack remix so ominous it moved the film’s original G rating to PG. Now, in celebration of Star Trek Day, Paramount+ has released yet another new version — Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Edition — in 4K UHD.

Considering every version this first Star Trek movie has taken, its newest iteration, with its gorgeous new CGI and visual effects, most effectively-realize Special Effects Director Douglas Trumbull ’s original dream, which he discussed at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. Trumbull intended a beautiful space epic that really gave audiences the opportunity to bask in the glory of space travel, and the glory of Star Trek. When the original version of Star Trek was released, it received mixed reviews, as fans criticized the movie’s lack of impactful action sequences. Watching it, we do spend an awfully long time gazing at the stars and various spacecrafts. Our beloved space explorers do the same. And yet, that’s the point: a celebration of the great human adventure, and traversing this extraordinary world. The new Director’s Edition doubles down on this original intention, even more effectively realizing Trumbull’s goal. Now that four decades have passed since the film’s first release, technology has finally caught up to the Trumbull’s initial aspirations, and this cut realizes the movie’s modern space epic potential.

Originally criticized as devoid of enough action sequences and overly indulging in visual effects, this Director’s Edition turns that reaction into a celebration. This movie is now a feast for the eyes, complete with stunning new visual effects upgraded for the modern audience. A true revelry in the grandeur of space odyssey, the digital artistry, and care given to reimagining the look and feel of the original footage feels like an homage. Paired with the all-consuming soundtrack from the 2001 release, the entire movie feels crisp, bright, and exciting. When our crew struggles to regain control during a warp core malfunction, we see their essences stretch and strain through space-time, their struggle much more dynamic than in the first iteration. As the crew approaches what we’ll eventually come to know as V’ger, the cloud’s details shine brighter than ever before, giving an even stronger nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey . With glistening new motion graphics that read as clean, contextually appropriate reimaginings of the director’s original intention, the Director’s Edition is a celebration of all this movie wanted to be and has finally had the chance to become.

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As the first Star Trek movie in the franchise, at the time of its original release, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a reunion of sorts for the fans who had, at this point, only come to know and love the cast of the Enterprise through their television sets. The movie, flawed as it may be regarding its inactive plot, was an upgrade from the at-home experience. It’s clear everyone behind the film intended on giving fans the chance to bask in this space world, joke with their space friends, and ponder big questions. A reunion launching us into new escapades in the great unknown. Now-Admiral James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) returns to his beloved ship after time away, hell-bent on saving humanity from an unknown existential threat. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) finds his way back to the Enterprise, pulled to the mission by sensing the threat all the way on Vulcan. Much of the film's tension comes from Kirk’s determination to muscle through this mission, often casting aside advice from trusted crew faithfuls like Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), Montgomery Scott ( James Doohan ), and William Decker ( Stephen Collins ). The movie—as it did back in the ‘70s—still very much feels like one long episode of television. And yet, it eventually meanders its way toward its true purpose as an origin story.

Much like how Decker and antagonist V’Ger’s ultimate union and evolution births a new species, so too did this film birth a new chapter in the Star Trek universe. While many agree that it’s not until Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that the franchise fully finds its footing in terms of the tone subsequent movies will take, this film was the bridge along which the Star Trek universe made its way onto the big screen. This new edition honors that legacy, matching the film’s big questions about the nature of man, machine, logic, emotion, determination, acceptance, and evolution with the visual wonder questions like these warrants.

Other than the special effects advancements, the re-release of this particular film, a work exploring the consequences of man’s creations, feels unnervingly relevant today. What started as humanity sending a probe out into the universe searching for more ultimately devolves into V’ger’s longing to connect with its creator nearly turning catastrophic. Humanity misinterprets this yearning and curiosity as a hostile attack, a miscommunication that nearly costs everything. Four decades later, we humans continue struggling with the repercussions of our best intentions. Glorifying this version of that tale via a new director’s edition cements this take in the canon of man vs. machine science fiction, sure to offer audiences food for thought for decades to come.

The team behind this new release used CGI effects to resolve some visual effects issues that have always plagued this film. Now, the movie is the closest it’s been yet to its original vision. If you are a fan of the original, this new Director’s Edition will feel like a real homecoming. If this is your first foray into the Star Trek cinematic universe, welcome. The human adventure, after all, is just beginning.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Edition is available now on Paramount+.

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Fast forward to the turn of the century when Wise was given the opportunity by Paramount’s Home Entertainment division to revisit the movie and — joined by producers David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren Dochterman — complete the post-production process the way he intended for DVD release in 2001. Armed with the burgeoning world of CG effects, as well as the time necessary to revisit the movie’s editing, the 2001 edition of The Director’s Edition was released on DVD to great acclaim.

But that DVD release was 21 years ago, and saw the movie released only in the standard definition presentation of the time. During that period, the theatrical edition of The Motion Picture received several re-releases, including on Blu-ray and most recently in September 2021’s remastered 4K UHD box set.

Meanwhile, fans of The Motion Picture Director’s Edition have had only ever had access to the original DVD release (or up-rezzed editions of that DVD picture through some streaming services). Until now!

The Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a superior film to the theatrical edition many of our readers are probably familiar with. And while a lot of the attention naturally falls on some of the movie’s sequences that have been significantly altered from the theatrical edition – Starfleet Headquarters has been improved, Vulcan’s moons have disappeared and the planet looks much more like it does in other appearances in the franchise, and we actually get to see the giant V’Ger vessel at the heart of the cloud – the Director’s Edition does more than just update the effects in a few places.

The whole movie has been upgraded, not just in its look and feel, but in how it runs, too. Robert Wise was an Oscar-winning movie editor before he moved to directing, and used the 2000-era opportunity to revisit the film to adjust a significant number of edits to the movie’s flow.

A lot of these changes aren’t major alterations – the movie is fundamentally the same – but through a series of targeted cuts and edits the movie flows better, and most importantly for fans who found the theatrical edition to be turgid, it feels like a brisker movie as well.

Drew Stewart of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Visual Comparisons project has meticulously documented the ways in which the Director’s Edition of the movie is different from the 1979 theatrical edition, and will be updating his project in the coming weeks with additional changes made in the 2022 version of the Director’s Edition . The new presentation of the movie is unlikely to fundamentally reshape your opinion of it — given that it’s still the same story and the same script — but you are very likely to enjoy it more than the theatrical edition that has been most prevalent for viewers.

And if you prefer the theatrical edition? Well the good news is, it’s available for you in the same 4K Ultra HD presentation thanks to last year’s movie box set. Fans now have the ability to choose which version of The Motion Picture they want to watch, and Paramount+ is to be commended for making that available to them… as another major science fiction franchise whose original versions have been vaulted for thirty years might take note?

Personally, I see no reason to watch the theatrical edition of The Motion Picture ever again. I’ve loved the Director’s Edition since the original 2001 release, and the 2022 4K remaster does the movie all the justice in the world. The picture is crisp, the colors more vibrant, the sound is incredible, and Jerry Goldsmith’s outstanding score has never sounded better.

The new effects are definitely not egregious additions for the sake of it; they help tell the story of the movie better for the viewer. It never made sense in the theatrical edition that on Vulcan Spock shields his eyes… from the night’s sky. And during the Enterprise’s approach to and journey inside of V’Ger, good luck being able to figure out where anything is or where the Enterprise is in relation to V’Ger as a whole.

The new quick effects shots help the viewer better understand the Enterprise’s journey, and provide more effective visual reference for how large V’Ger is… and what the ship actually looks like! The theatrical edition of the movie never even shows you a wide shot of the V’Ger spacecraft at the heart of the cloud. The Director’s Edition corrects this oversight, not for the sake of it, but because it really helps tell the story better.

The history of Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition is not one of making changes to the movie just to sell a new product for fans, but of honoring the legacy of the movie’s director and giving him the chance to finish it so that fans could see it in the way it was intended.

Even though Robert Wise passed away in 2005, he lived long enough to work with the Director’s Edition team through the original project that was released in 2001, and that same team has picked up the baton to remaster the movie for a 4K presentation today based upon his guidance during the first project.

The voyage of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition may be at an end, but the Human Adventure is Just Beginning, and you’d be wise to give this movie a chance using the biggest screen and the best sound system you have access to.

I know the Director’s Edition has significantly improved my opinion of the movie as a whole, and I hope it does the same for you.

The newly remastered Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition arrives in 4K UHD format April 5, exclusively on Paramount+. The new edition of the film will be screened in theaters in the United States in May, followed by a 4K Blu-ray physical release this September.

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Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition impresses with Dolby Atmos & New Bonus Material

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Theatrical Cut was already available in 4k in The Original 4-Movie Collection released exactly a year ago on Ultra HD Blu-ray. The 4k video and Dolby Vision/HDR10 color specs are the same on the Director’s Edition, but the English audio was upgraded from Dolby TrueHD 7.1 to Dolby Atmos. What’s more, there are deleted scenes, production tests, and an 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life all added as new extras along with legacy bonus material.

Colors are extremely vibrant with HDR (expanding the color depth limits up to 10-bits) on the 4k Blu-ray edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition . The bitrate averaged around 50-60Mbps with variations depending on the depth of color and detail in the scene. There are some shots that are somewhat blurry (like when the Klingons encounter the massive energy in the opening scene) but for the most part the restoration has delivered a vastly improved image in terms of both sharpness, highlighted by the U.S.S. Enterprise that had shots rebuilt using 3D software and the original scale model as reference.

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As far as sound, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition offers object-based Dolby Atmos immersive audio. This is an upgrade from last year’s Theatrical Cut with Dolby TrueHD 7.1 and one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, we were excited to review this disc from Paramount.

The introduction composition with credit is more crisp and detailed, with horns and instrumentals more focused in surround speakers. There are some bright chimes (a common thread throughout the soundtrack) in the front center speaker that are so crisp it’s as if the instruments are there in the room with you. Expectations were exceeded on the upgraded audio. The new Atmos mix doesn’t seem forced or gimmicky — it just seems like a great soundtrack to what some consider the best of the six original Star Trek films.

It was said that Jerry Goldsmith created a score so good that the filmmakers wished they had made a film that was as good. The soundtrack to Star Trek: The Motion Picture is as iconic as the movie itself (the number of CDs sold can attest to this). With sweeping orchestral movements and a theme that’s so easy to remember it’s a soundtrack that can easily be enjoyed without any visuals.

See scores and read the full review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition on 4k Blu-ray Disc.

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‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Edition’ makes its glorious return

It’s still the same film, but it’ll never look better than it does right now..

If there was ever a Star Trek film that needed a do-over, both artistically and reputationally, it was The Motion Picture . Dismissed by critics as boring and sterile when it came out, its nickname inside Trek fandom has long been “The Motionless Picture.” In 1997, director Robert Wise started the process of re-examining the film, with a Director’s Edition being birthed at the dawn of the DVD era in 2001. For a couple of reasons, the altogether better version of that movie fell into obscurity, unavailable for most people to see. Now, twenty years after Wise’s amended film made its debut, the film has been given a second do-over in the form of a 4K remaster for Paramount+ .

The Abandoned Picture

You can buy a shelf’s worth of books discussing the troubled production of The Motion Picture , and its creative failures. Paramount wanted a new Star Trek TV series, until the money men balked at the cost and potential disinterest from advertisers. The pricey show got crunched into a single movie-of-the-week, right until the moment that Star Wars (and Close Encounters ) swallowed 1977 whole. Bosses wanted a slice of that late ‘70s sci-fi movie pie and upgraded the Trek project to a big-budget movie. Except none of the already-made material was movie quality, and the effects house wasn’t up to the task at hand.

The Motion Picture was directed by Robert Wise, a footnote in a career that started in 1934 and ran through 2000. Wise got his big break as Orson Welles’ editor on Citizen Kane and, more controversially, The Magnificent Ambersons . He’d won enough Academy Awards that The Motion Picture wouldn’t be in the top ten of his most notable achievements. The special effects were eventually completed by the recently-departed Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra; both could point to 2001 and Star Wars as the highlights on their own resumes. Even so, Wise was battered by the process of making it, hand-delivering the prints to the film’s premiere and declaring it to be a rushed, unfinished job.

Length was a problem for the film, a 90-minute TV pilot expanded to more than two hours, bloated with too many special effects shots. Paramount would subsequently produce an even longer cut of the film, letting ABC screen a super-sized, 143-minute TV version which included deleted and unfinished scenes. (There is a rumor, apparently tied to this forum post from 2016 (via Memory Alpha ), which suggests that Wise re-cut the film in 1980 to be 12 minutes shorter, but producer David C. Fein doesn’t believe it to be true.)

The Director’s Edition

In 1997, Wise, through his company Robert Wise Productions, enlisted the help of producer David C. Fein, post-production supervisor Michael Matessino and visual effects supervisor Daren R. Dochterman to help fix the film. They examined the original storyboards, fixed some of the more egregious effects choices and tightened the editing. While the runtime was longer, a snappier edit (more or less) helped contextualize some of the choices made back when the film was shooting. It also helped to kickstart the reappraisal of the film as something more valuable than the big-budget catastrophe it was treated as.

Part of that work was to broaden the visual palette, especially in some of the key sequences which weren’t fully-realized in ‘79. The inconsistencies during Spock’s first scene – which were shot in broad daylight but painted on a matte implying darkness – are fixed. Many sets that were constrained even with matte paintings were broadened out and CGI – by pioneers Foundation Imaging – used to fill the gaps in the action. The film remained, more or less, like it had two decades prior, but was a much more joined-up experience on screen.

But this edition, while considered “definitive,” was never re-released beyond its original 2001 DVD printing. According to Memory Alpha , it’s because Paramount never kept its own archive copies of the CGI files for its projects. And when Foundation Imaging went under after the death of its founder, Ron Thornton, it was believed that those files were gone forever.

The Re-Remaster

“Completely untrue,” said David C. Fein who produced both the first Directors Edition and its 2022 successor, to Engadget. “Everything was designed to be able to go to film, but the resolution [in those original files] wasn’t there, [...] so it couldn’t just be re-rendered,” he said. “It had to be recreated by people who knew what we were going for, because we’re now able to put the detail in for it to be full-size.” “We re-did all the visual effects, not from scratch – the setups [from 1999] were there – then we worked in all of the new levels of technology and information,” said Fein.

Fein says that the project, which was announced in July 2021 , is “not a restoration,” and that his team wasn’t just “polishing this film,” but working to tweak it to improve the overall storytelling. That meant scanning the raw material and re-compositing everything to make a fresh, 4K scan off the original 35mm live-action footage. (Douglas Trumbull, to avoid detail loss, would shoot on 65mm film, and so his material was scanned in at 8K, while Dykstra’s VistaVision material was scanned in at 6K.)

The project is, if we’re being a little too honest, long overdue, since Paramount opted to offer the theatrical print of The Motion Picture for all of the Blu-ray releases. “Unfortunately, when the hi-def [versions of the Star Trek films] came out, Bob [Wise] got to watch the fact that it was the original theatrical version,” explained Fein. “And he sat me down in his kitchen and said, ‘I need you to promise me something Dave’ – ‘I don’t care how long it takes, I need you to finish the director’s edition and it needs to be finished ,’ meaning film quality.” But Fein says that the lag time was down to a need for the technology to improve, and also for the “guardian angels” at Paramount+ to greenlight the work.

There are a number of small tweaks to the film, designed to smooth out even more of its visual rough edges. Keen-eyed fans will enjoy spotting the additions and changes, an early highlight is the addition of Shuttle Pod 5 to the exterior of Starfleet’s orbital office. “Just about every shot [in the film] has been touched in some way, there’s a lot of subtlety added to shots,” he said. “There’s [also] at least one clearly new shot in the film that helps continuity, and I hope no-one else notices it.”

One sequence that Fein spent lots of effort on, both then and now, was when the V’Ger probe attacks the bridge. The original film sequence was projected through a bent mylar filter with intentionally harsh lighting to create the alien effect. “The way that it looked, was almost like [our] film stopped and another one started,” he explained, looking at the washed-out colors, high grain and poor continuity. Fein credits the power of HDR which enabled his team to create a harsh overexposure of the probe without dulling the rest of the film.

And a less obvious change – unless you’re like me and watched multiple versions side-by-side – is a vastly improved color grade. Because the film was so rushed, Fein explained, the process of color grading, which can take months, was crunched down to four days. He said that the crew’s opinion, at the time, was “just ‘let’s get it done as flat [as we can] so everything matched, and [get it done] as quickly as it could.” The film’s colors are, traditionally, washed out, leaden with that ‘70s sci-fi beige that makes even the actors look like pieces of furniture. “Now that we’re working from negative scans, we’re able to do what [Robert Wise’s] real intention was.”

The final task Fein had to oversee was to ensure that The Directors Edition is no longer a rare curio. Fein explained that, having worked with the digital negatives and produced a new print designed for theatrical distribution, the film is now “future proof.” That should ensure that it never again becomes the sort of film you have to actively seek out to watch. Not to mention that Fathom events will offer a handful of screenings (in select theaters) for viewers to see the film on the big screen once again.

Give me a Good Time

I don’t want to be facetious when I say that The Motion Picture is less of a film and more of an experience . For all of the complaints that the film was slow, antiseptic and cold, it also offers something a little more heavyweight than you may expect from a franchise movie. The team behind the film may not have been making Solaris , or 2001 , but those influences are keenly felt through much of the movie. It’s not dumb noisy fun, and it’s not as clever as it thinks it might be, but it’s trying to deal with some weighty issues around what it means to be human. A computer looking to understand if there’s any meaning beyond its existence is something fiction has come back to again and again – it’s always been a fascination for Star Trek , too.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to watch the 4K transfer in all of its glory, since previews were capped at 1080p ( I know ). What is obvious, however, is that the new version is a whole lot brighter, with much more detailed CG models and much better sound, in most places. The new color grade makes a huge difference, with actors no longer blending into the background of their own film. There are only a few moments where the transfer seems less kind than you may expect, and that’s mostly when you go looking for matte lines. You can clearly see some of that hand-cut wonkiness in the more detail-heavy sequences, like the drydock scene.

(While we’re on the subject; the Drydock sequence is considered, by non fans, as the ne plus ultra of pointless fan service. Yes, it’s a six-minute scene in which Kirk stares, milky-eyed at the refitted Enterprise, well-known enough that even nü-Trek repeatedly tips its hat to it . But let’s be honest, if you wanted to spend six minutes staring at a model, you might as well make it the most beautiful model ever to be created .)

And as much as it’s Wise’s name on the film, in these modern eras, I think we should also offer kudos to Trumbull and Dykstra for their contribution. The effects sequences are, for their age, some of the best ever put to film and the trippy late ‘70s sci-fi visuals during the spacewalk sequence are on a par with anything 2001 offered. I can’t not also say that, without Jerry Goldsmith’s score, one of the best ever written, much of this film wouldn’t hold together nearly as well as it does. While the finished product is not to everyone’s taste, you can tell it is the product of a number of virtuosos all working to produce their very best work.

It’s funny, because I’d say that I’ve seen this film more times than I should probably admit, especially the first 40 minutes. Something that only occurred to me during this rewatch is how Wise’s direction, and the acting, loosens up as things go on. Kirk, Spock and McCoy all start this film stiff and stagey, acting like they’re all trying to act under the effects of a sedative. But once they’ve returned to the Enterprise and you see Kirk visibly relax into his chair, Spock and McCoy start bantering, and you could almost frame this as a deliberate choice to make the film a form of origin story.

While researching this piece, I went hunting for critical reviews of the film back when it first debuted in 1979. (The best modern essay on the film, and the best modern essays on any of the Star Trek films, is Darren Franich’s 2016 retrospective , which I urge you to read.) Weirdly, Roger Ebert wrote the smartest take on the film back then, and I reckon the conclusion of his review is probably the most elegant way anyone could discuss it. He wrote, “Some of the early reviews seemed pretty blase, as if the critics didn’t allow themselves to relish the film before racing out to pigeonhole it. My inclination, as I slid down in my seat and the stereo sound surrounded me, was to relax and let the movie give me a good time. I did and it did.”

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition , will be available on Paramount+ on April 5th, 2022. A physical media release will follow with new special features.

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| January 25, 2022 | By: Brian Drew 110 comments so far

The new 4K Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture made our Most Anticipated Of 2022 List, and this week the team behind the Paramount+ project released some new images that indicate just how much a visual upgrade it is going to be.

Going back to the archives to revive a classic

The first two images revealed by project producer David C. Fein at StarTrek.com show the USS Enterprise leaving orbit and the orbital office complex. According to Fein, they have been “digitally recombined with little to no loss in quality from the original negative of the elements of each shot.”

A few years back, we interviewed one of the film’s effects supervisors, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull , who speculated that the 65mm film elements he and his colleagues had shot in 1979 might be lurking in a Paramount vault somewhere. TrekMovie can confirm that the film reels were indeed found and are being utilized for the remastered Director’s Edition. The ability to use high-resolution elements (65mm is the equivalent of 8K+) is likely to yield some truly spectacular images.

Adding new elements

The team behind the project isn’t just recreating the 2001 DVD Director’s Edition for the HD era, they are also making a few additional tweaks. In the new high res image of the office complex, you can clearly see one of the new fixes that the Director’s Edition team made, one they intended to make in 2001 but they ran out of time and money to add. There’s now a travel pod docked to match where we later see Kirk and Scotty take off towards the Enterprise.

Using new color tech

The film is also getting a brand new color grade, which will utilize the HDR (High Dynamic Range) process that allows for a wider color palette and greater image fidelity. The tools being utilized did not exist during the first iteration of the DE 20+ years ago, and the ability to color correct scene-by-scene will allow all of the original elements to look far better than they ever have.

In the images below, you can see colorist Matt McFarland tweaking the film’s finale and Klingon attack sequences.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition will premiere on Paramount+ sometime this year. Check back with TrekMovie for more updates about this very cool project.

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Sure, it’s coming to P+ (which is still woeful in Australia – e.g. for some reason Disco isn’t in HDR and is lacking surround sound on the amazon FireTV stick (and lacking Prodigy episode 6 onwards)), but is it coming to 4k blu-ray? And if so, will they replace the current 4-disc set? I would imagine not? Another double dip?

I think Daren Dochterman has alluded to such, but he isn’t really willing to go on record with anything definitive, because.. things can change.

But if you think about it.. as good as the new stream will look. Blu will be better. When you hear the lengths they’re going to, you better believe they’re going to try to maximize their opportunity to get the money back.

I am betting it gets a standalone release, the way they did with the Trek II Director’s Cut. Which I’m fine with, I like having both versions. Can’t wait for the blu, don’t want the P+ service.

Hopefully they can edit out people’s crushed junk in those dreadful 70’s inspired uniforms ;)

What’s wrong with a little 23rd century moose knuckle? Some folks might enjoy that. IDIC, my friend, IDIC.

What’s wrong with these 2370’s uniforms? The 2360’s uniforms and skirts were/will be/will have beenn/will have had been out of fashion around 2371. ;-)

What’s wrong with these 2370’s uniforms?

That they’re 2270’s uniforms? 2370’s uniforms would place it in TNG.

AAAAA…. my mistake. 23th century… 2270 not 2370. But even the 2360s skirts will be out of fashion in 2371. We saw men wearing skirts in TNG season 1, but not later…hahahaha…

The best thing about those uniforms, and frankly “the look” of the entire movie is that it ages better than the other movies.

MUCH prefer the TMP uniforms to what came later! Simple and comfortable looking. The TWOK uniforms looked like dress uniforms, not daily work uniforms. And, frankly, they looked tacky.

I guess Kirk’s Captain’s T-Shirt didn’t really catch on as standard Starfleet duty wear. That Kirk was definitely a pioneer though!

Even HD can’t rescue those photo-flares. They were an eye roller even in the theater.

What worries me most is the predilection with the HD detailing of the non-beauty shot space stations, office complexes, and the such. I don’t see how those shots are going to match stylistically with the beauty shots of the Enterprise which were done in a highly chilled room with soft focus to produce a natural diffused beauty.

As in this post, fretting over the details of a missing travel pod on a clustery, overly-complex model in tight focus are unimportant unless your doing a jarring jump-cut to close-up of the travel pod.

The focus should be in matching the other models stylistically to the best that the Enterprise can look with this “remastering” and ensure that all the live action meets that look halfway. The rest of the fretting can’t do anything but ruin the entire transfer…

We’ve all seen half-a**ed HD transfers where the HD upgrades to the visual effects, and model shots from 65MM source make the rest of the film look like amateur hour 16MM garbage. The Kohlinar scene is especially prone to those eye-cancer provoking mismatching failures…

…if only I could believe in Paramount and the Star Trek post crew. Maybe if I clap my hands and wish. : /

@ Bee Dee I’m acquainted with Daren Dochterman from the Star Trek Set Tour and I was his 1st AD on a Phase 2 episode. He’s an amazingly talented individual, with an eye for detail. He “gets” and loves Star Trek like we fans do. In fact, he’s just an uber Trek fan, who has worked, very hard, honing his talents, to actually work for the franchise on different productions. This film, with his other co-workers on the re-mastering team, is in good hands. It took a bit of lobbying, behind the scenes, to get Paramount to agree to fund the project. (If I recall correctly) I’m beyond excited to see the final product.

Yes. Out of everything and everyone that has been associated with Trek since Enterprise ended, there is no one better suited to be working on a Trek project than Daren. The one thing that makes me give this entire effort… all the way back to the edition produced in 2001.. the approach has always been about realizing the director’s original vision, and the travel pod is a great example of fixing consistency issues. But outside of that, Daren said nothing is being changed that doesn’t honor his intention. Love that.

I like Daren’s work but he was just plain toxic when it comes to the new TREK shows. I love TREK as much as he does but he has no place for those who love the new *and* the old.

Do you have a source for this? According to Memory Alpha he worked on both Beyond and Picard.

Even if that’s true, does that matter when it comes to the work someone does on what they ARE passionate about?

You’re thinking of Robert Meyer Burnett… and while I wouldn’t go so far as to call RMB toxic, he’s beyond forthright. If it comes across as toxic to anyone it’s because they like the new Trek, and I get that. As for Daren, He and Mark Altman both have said on numerous occasions on their podcast, that they prefer to talk about the things they love, and not spend time on the things they don’t. Daren and Mark have spun out a couple of times on their show and made some comments, and yes they are critical and don’t hide that they’re not fans of the Discovery era stuff, but they are not toxic.

Well, as with the Wise Director’s cut, it’s really about when Paramount bean-counters walk through the door and declare the project completed and send everyone home (as per the Original Series HD-DVD/Bluray upscaling and original model and VFX shot replacements). Paramount is notorioius for letting things go on until they don’t, rather than prioritizing finishing goals. It really doesn’t matter, at that point, about the reputation, genius gifts, or experience of the crew.

You seem fun.

Great contribution to the technical response to the mismatched stills and the lack of any actual footage…

Oh, is that what that was? I thought it was sh*tting all over the work that the current and original TMP DE artists have done by way of supercilious nitpicking from a keyboard. My mistake.

geez, can’t you find a comment about watching Star Trek on computer screens and tablets to reply to??

No, I can’t see very well anymore; I rolled my eyes too hard because of the lens flares in TMP and then I saw the Kohlinar scene in the DE and all the eye cancer it gave me has really handicapped my winge game.

You are my favorite person right now.

I wonder if they are also gonna improve some minor imperfections (from todays (!) point of view) of composite shots like the travel pod with Kirk and Scotty inside. (Or the people moving inside the space station). The angle looked wrong and very flat like puting a 2D-foto on a 3D object.

I don’t need them to do that.

Yes, that travel pod shot was a rushed rear-screen projection, that can easily be fixed by a scan of the element and a skewing as the window changes angle with today’s post software.

The shots in the officer’s lounge (?) and others – especially with Spock’s blue-gray uniform across the blue-screen generated star field are painful. That can’t just be color corrected, the elements need to be scanned and re-composited. I noticed that was NOT done in the Wise Director’s cut nor were some of the restored V’Ger inner chamber shots..

Yeah I honestly hope this is the final, “definitive” version of TMP we ever see, with every possible tweak and element put in place to make it perfect. There shouldn’t be a single effects shot that looks like it was made in 1979; it should feel as flawless as a modern day production. I’m delighted that the elements all look so crisp and have no matte lines in the composite, and you’re right they should add depth to the travel pod shot. I would even argue they should make the deflector dish consistently blue versus changing color from one shot to another, especially since it was only ever blue after TMP. If they have 8K renders of some effects footage, keep them in 8K for the inevitable time when it will be the standard format. Don’t lock it into a 4K only resolution; just like some movies have IMAX sequences within them, this would be the same idea. Do all the work now.

It sounds like what you really want is for them to go back in time and have the original production shoot all the original footage differently from how it was shot then.

Hopefully this does well on Paramount+ and they decide to remaster DS9 for streaming and release a new episode week by week before dropping each season on disc

And Voyager as well.

I’d dearly love that. Of the two DS9 is my favorite, but I love Voyager as well, and if either show got the TNG treatment that would be wonderful, and most especially if it happened with both.

Even after over two decades since Enterprise began, the majority of this franchise is still stuff originally produced in the SD era for SD viewing, but TOS, TAS, and TNG all miraculously made the leap to HD, and I think both have had their viewership popularity prolonged considerably by it. Only two shows now remain locked in SD.

Yeah, these are both tough, which is why Paramount has thus far passed. All of those shots are VFX, not models. That means that all of those composition would have to be re-rendered – very different than up-scaled scans of camera original elements. Same problem for poor Babylon 5. : (

Actually, both DS9 and VOY started out using models. They only switched over to using mostly CGI later during their runs. Things like the wormhole on DS9 or some of the space backgrounds in the VOY title sequence are CGI from the start but they did use models for the ships for a few more years.

I read somewhere (Memory Alpha?) that in the whole series, the only CGI shot of DS9 (the station itself) was the very last one, the long pull-away from Kira and Jake at the Promenade window.

Are you sure? Including the scenes where DS9 is turned into a weapon with lots of turrets etc.? Or the big battle scenes happening around DS9 towards the end of the run? That’s rather impressive.

But still, many of the bigger battles were CGI, like what happened in Tears of the Prophets. The shots are clearly CGI… impressive for back then, but they can be improved upon. That will increase the cost of remastering the show, but I suppose it will still be financially viable.

Agreed. If Paramount+ comes standalone at a reasonable price to my country, I’ll subscribe. For Disco S4 (which so far is pretty good… far better than the barely watchable mess that was season 1), for Lower Decks S2 (most of all), Prodigy and perhaps even Picard S2. And, most of all I suppose, to watch the DC of TMP (which is a VASTLY superior film).

And hopefully, this will make them remaster DS9. They could air it on a weekly basis in weeks where there is no new Trek… that way, fans would have a reason to subscribe all year. And remastering DS9 episodes is going to cost very little compared to creating new DSC / Picard episodes. How much was TNG? 50k per episode? Lets quadruple that, and it’s still 1/40th of an DSC episode at 8 million USD… surely they can earn back the cost of remastering DS9 with added subscriptions.

Add a mid end credits scene: ilia/borg queen awakens.

And a post end credits scene: ceti alpha V goes boom as 1967 Montalban watches in horror and screams ‘KIIIRK!’

Yeah, it should add “James T. Kirk will return in the Wrath of Khan “. ;-) Sounds familiar. hahaha.

By the way, they really could have added a flashback scene of Space Seed in ST II. Didn’t know that connection for a long time and when ST II was aired in german cinemas, the viewers had no clue because Speed Seed would be aired for the first time years later in Germany.

Regarding a flashback to Space Seed, I guessed they wanted to avoid the jarring visual difference between 1960’s TV and their movie. There was a reason they completely overhauled the look for TMP.

Of course. Back then it wasn’t possible but nowadays it would when it comes to the quality of the picture. But you can add flashback scenes and smooth out visual differences a bit. Using black/white, “dream-scenes” effect, blurred vision, overlapping, having a small, dark scene in the background and so on. At least they could have tried it.

There was a reason they completely overhauled the look for TMP. But that is canon and was mentioned in TMP.

That’s not exactly, what transpired here. I’ve seen “Der schlafende Tiger” in 1972 – here in Good Ol’ Germany. It preceeded STII by far. ;-) Even 1978 saw a repetition, when I recorded it with a cassette player back then.

Aaaa… I must have got it wrong. Then this maybe refers to the final scene when they decided to leave Khan and his crew (and his future wive) on ceti alpha VI. Or V :-P which was missing (?) in the german version.

I’m growing weary of these photos, beautiful as they may be — let us see some actual footage already!!!

While I feel the same, I’m cool if my first glimpse is when I pop the blu-ray in.

Thank you Brian Drew and Trekmovie for this update.

I had no idea the original effects were being recomposited digitally! No matte lines!

Well yeah how else would they do it? It’s beautiful!

Great news. It is great they found the original 65 mm elements. It appears as if the final restoration efforts and tweaks will yield a movie that will visually equal that, if not surpass that of Blade Runner :)

I suppose there’s no news on whether other scenes have been restored such as the other part of the Vger probe on the bridge and guard zap. Scotty’s line about showing Ilia and wish to throwing the probe inside a trash compactor. Spock’s last line about his presence on the Enterprise is a certainty as McCoy will also be on board for new missions. At least include them as the final word on lost/cut scenes. Who knows if the film elements will survive long enough for a further dig into the vaults for yet another edition.

When all is said and done, how about a re-release even if its a limited one. With Covid, maybe its not a good idea now, but when things approach a level of close to normal, give it the IMAX treatment. The first person aspects of the movie just demand a huge IMAX, if not also 70mm experience. A few prints for posterity for things like retrospectives and art house showings.. ala 2001. The 40th anniversary TMP release did a few hundred thousand showing in the smaller theaters at the multiplex with no national promotion.

So cool! Can’t wait to see the entire movie on any day between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter!

Looks like it’s missing patches of film grain overall, plus the addition of the travel pod is very, very poorly integrated. Are those two final shots? I hope not!

Yes – both the grain and the colour balance on the pod are off. Plus the rear end should be masked off so it appears behind the station from that angle. Must be a WIP. Odd that they shared it as such.

I agree, the addition of the travel pod looks pathetic, like it was done with MS Paint.

Yeah the pod looks not good, they better fix it up

I hope Paramount improves their picture quality on their streaming, its very subpar compared to Netflix and Disney+’s streaming IMO. (Then again, I get why this will be a streaming exclusive first, this project probably is only happening because of Paramount+ in the first place)

The transfers they used for DS9 are awful – they didn’t overscan them so there’s a little black and white line at the top of the picture that’s really obvious in dark scenes, of which DS9 has plenty.

I do hope remastered DS9 and Voyager as streaming exclusives are being floated as possibilities at P+.

It’s criminal that we don’t have DS9 and Voyager remasters yet.

i hope they do this for all the movies

Recompositing the original elements shows just how much money Paramount are throwing at this! I think the end results will be stunning & no doubt it will be on a 4K UHD Disc in fall 2022!!

I can’t wait to hear the remastered soundtrack in Atmos. Its going to be tremendous. I just wish Jerry Goldsmith was around to see it.

Will this be getting a 4k Blu Ray release? Or P+ only? I’ll buy the disc but I’m not getting P+ and I’d hate to have to pirate it.

I’d like a Blu-Ray release of this, I Haven’t got the Kit to watch 4K and don’t expect to have it any time soon. In the meantime I’ll stick to my DVD copy

I do and it’s glorious, You’ll be beside yourself when you upgrade :)

I’m interested in the HD upgrade from the standard DVD. So I will be happy if they have a BD of this. Not just the 4K version. Which doesn’t do me much good.

The Enterprise never looked better than it’s depiction in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The detail, the depth of size and scope! Even many years later, with all the advancements in CGI, the Enterprise in the Kelvin universe movies looks like a phoney computer graphic hack job.

The main vehicle was lovingly featured in the TOS and TNG movies and the TV shows – longer beauty passes and all the stock shots used out of necessity that still helped make ships and stations into characters in their own right.

Now the shots are fleeting, busy, murky and flashy. Bit of a shame.

I really miss such beauty shots in the newest shows.

Yup, me too. And sadly, I don’t find the ships in the new ones all that beautiful.

And it’s amazing how much effort they spend on those shots in the old tv shows although it wasn’t THAT visible on tv back then. TNG in HD reveales how much details they used.

32nd century Federation ships all look like concept cars now. The new ships in Picard were sadly anonymous too. Perhaps a victim of the rushed production schedule, but surely a 2399 Federation fleet would have still had some Sovereigns and Intrepids in it, and the Romulans could have at least had a few Valdore-classes if not the elegant older warbirds. Just seems like such an easy bone to throw fans.

Secret Hideout doesn’t care about Star Trek lol they’ll throw anything together and slap the title on it and know they’ll make money

Wanna reiterate everything you and others in this thread have said – the Kelvin movies look like hollow CGI nothings, they have no depth, they’re completely unreal. This is why I prefer the original TOS shots to the phony remasters – I don’t care how “grainy” or “cheap” the Enterprise model looks on screen, it still feels real, like an object. It’s not some fake computer simulation. Even with the biggest blockbuster budgets and today’s CGI, the only effects that look real are actual models.

As for Ian’s comment first, yeah it is too bad that new Trek just doesn’t treat its ships with the reverence of the old series and the beauty passes they had. It’s all just CGI murk. But as Danpaine said, the new ships are across the board ugly, literally thrown together at the last minute in the case of the Zheng He, so the real tragedy is that we’re given such sad designs to look at in the first place. Maybe it’s for the best that we don’t get to see much of them.

Seems like TMP is being remastered on the Enterprise itself! That space station now looks amazing and very realistic, like it could REALLY happen in a not so distant future! It matches the IXS Enterprise NASA-design!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXS_Enterprise

A cool bonus would be a “Phase II – In Thy Image” edit and recut to a version of how the planned pilot episode could have looked and aired in 1978. :-) Which would be either a “demaster”.

Hopefully DS9/VOY next for P+ *fingers crossed* I know the subscriptions numbers would rocket far higher & quicker if they did, more so than for the Kurtzman shows.

That seems unlikely. New shows would probably get more subscribers than new versions of old shows. Especially since you already need to subscribe to stream the old shows anyway.

‘stop competing with me, decker!’

‘absolutely i will not interfere!!!!’

Hmmm… my first comment still hasn’t been released due to a link. That space station looks amazing and now veeery realistic like it could REALLY happen in a not so distant future! It matches the look of the NASA-designed, proposed IXS-Enterprise (just google it)! amazing!

Looking forward to this. I hope it gets a cinema release in the UK. The older I get the more I appreciate this film, particularly the much improved Directors Cut.

Um, I can see the rear door/hatch on that travel pod that is ‘docked’ at the station. Someone needs to practice their parking skills. :D

Wow, the love and attention to detail is unbelievable! would be a shame to lavish this level of care on TMP and not do something for Star Trek V The Final Frontier?

Yeah, it’d be nice to get V brought up to speed, but TMP is easily the biggest and most ‘cinematic’ of the films.. so it makes the most sense to focus on that. With V, I’ll be happy to get a remastered blu when it comes like we did of ST I-IV.

As soon as TMP DE is actually out I will flip the FB page from Release the Motion Picture DE 4K to Release The Shatner cut 4K, or something similar! You never know

I’m so excited for this. The revelation they’re recompositing the original elements is fantastic.

I know that even in its ideal state, Star Trek – The Motion Picture will forever remain a movie many fans deride, struggle through or skip altogether, but it’s absolutely a favorite of mine and I adore it in all its versions. Getting (a version of) the DE in HD (4K or otherwise) is honestly the single thing to which I’m most looking forward in all of live-action Star Trek for 2022 and beyond.

It’s not a favorite of mine, but I absolutely love the soundtrack, so it’s worth it to just relax and enjoy the visuals and music.

I am so looking forward to this. I haven’t watched TMP in a few years even though I have it on Blu-Ray. Once this hits P+, I may never watch that Blu-Ray again anyway lol.

I just hope the streaming quality is good.

So looking forward to this and thanks TrekMovie for the continuing coverage. Glad to see Matessino et al are working on this. They have a passion for the material and the technical skills to match.

I have to say that this film has a soft spot in my heart and always will. When it hit the theaters, I was ecstatic because TV came to the big screen. Since we had no other (Trek) film to compare it to, this was a big hit. Then came TWOK and things changed in most peoples opinions. Mine did and with the subsequent films, it really was all over the map. I have to take my hat off to Director Robert Wise who made outstanding films, TMP was among them. Jump ahead to 2022 and with current tech, we can have a visually better film. Looking forward to seeing it. I got a chance to speak with John Povil who worked on TMP when he appeared at the CON in Vegas over 10 years ago. He was walking through SpaceQuest casino where I was playing the Trek slot machine. I stood up and asked if he had a moment to talk, he said yes and over an hour later, I came away with some great insights and facts from behind the scenes. The funniest was the bet he had with Walter Koenig regarding the film…

Second shot looks really cgi, hopefully the final version looks better.

And it is not CGI! Except for the pods, all the rest are the original elements, recomposed (without matte lines!).

Exactly! Much to my delight, they have found the original negatives and are assembling the original filmed effects elements using modern equipment. This was something I had been hoping they could do after the fantastic results remastering Star Trek: TNG. It’s amazing that Paramount funded the extra work, I’m honestly stunned they did it. Looking forward to seeing the original effects work without the matte lines.

The first DVD I bought was TMP-DE. This whole package may kead me to a 4k TV.

Same here. I bought a DVD burner for my PC and watched it on my 17″ lcd. Now I’m on a 50″ plasma. haha Can’t wait to own this on bluray.

Yeah I love the color upgrade and all but HOW MANY MORE MINUTES will it have?

Add an additional 15 to 20 or 30 minutes and I am there.

For me its subtract 30 minutes and I’m there.

That would be the planned Phase II pilot TV-Version of it. ;-)

“For me its subtract 30 minutes and I’m there”. I second that! Chop half of the ‘tour’, chop the transporter accident altogether, etc., etc.

The transporter accident was the most shocking and I would argue impactful part of the movie, that distorted scream just horrified younger me. And if you get rid of that, you need to get rid of Kirk’s arrival at Starfleet or come up with dubbing in some lame excuse why he wasn’t at the ship while launching.

Coolness… Coolness… Just need to know when it will be out on Blu Ray.

My favourite part of the whole film is when the Klingon commander puts up his hand, and says ‘Ishhh’, and then fires the torpedo at V’ger from the Klingon D7.

I wonder what ‘Ishhh’ means in Klingon?

Actually looking forward to seeing this (weird for me to say with reference to ST:I) On the whole, I’m just glad we call it the Enterprise and not the Yorktown (yorktown just aint right for something as pretty as a refit connie).

The spacedock scene is great — I do see more detail.

For the Enterprise “earth sunrise” scene I think the original scene on my existing blu-ray looks better — the sun now looks kind of fake.

Waiting for news of the 4K/Blu-Ray/Digital copy combo. As well as the same for Treks V-Nemesis.

With you there, my friend!

The best Trek film. Weird, but true.

What I would like to know is when/if this will be released on 4K UHD Blu-ray disc. Not all of us are streamers nor wish to be. Physical media is our only source of tv and would be a shame, as much as I love TMP to miss out on this.

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This must-have, limited collector’s edition—THE COMPLETE ADVENTURE—exclusively contains the “Special Longer Version” of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, alongside the original 1979 theatrical cut, in 4K UHD in deluxe packaging with unique collectibles. Additionally, a disc has been included with hours of new and legacy special features, including extensive behind the scenes footage, never-before-scenes deleted scenes, and more.

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Director Robert Wise’s definitive vision, eagerly anticipated by STAR TREK fans for over two decades, has been meticulously restored and remastered for optimal picture and sound. This must-have, limited collector’s edition—THE COMPLETE ADVENTURE—exclusively contains the “Special Longer Version” of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, alongside the original 1979 theatrical cut, in 4K UHD in deluxe packaging with unique collectibles. Additionally, a bonus disc has been included with hours of new and legacy special features, including extensive behind the scenes footage, never-before-scenes deleted scenes, and more. The adventure begins when an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers. Captain James T. Kirk boldly returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. This bold adventure launched one of the longest running movie franchises of all time and features the cast of the original STAR TREK series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.91 x 6.93 x 0.71 inches; 10.72 ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2022
Actors ‏ : ‎ William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, George Takei
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Studio ‏ : ‎ PARAMOUNT
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B45BZZCH
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Director's Edition

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“The human adventure is just beginning,” reads a title card at the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . It’s a bold statement at the close of a big movie. And until now, it was frequently met with rolled eyes.

Paramount+’s latest version of the 1979 resurrection of the interplanetary adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Director’s Edition , is actually the fourth iteration of this enormous movie. While it does come with a lot of baggage for longtime fans — and we’ll get into that in a moment — the crystalline 4K imagery and Dolby Atmos audio are so impressive that even the Star Trek agnostic will be blown away by the sound-and-light show. More than anything else, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a “head film,” deeply influenced by 2001: A Space Odyssey , but intended for an even more I’m OK You’re OK -attuned 1970s audience. It’s always been an incredible artifact, now it’s one you simply must see.

By 1979, Star Trek was one of the most famous cancelled shows on all of television. Programming snafus kept its ratings low from 1966 through 1969, but its fanbase was (as it is today) extreme. It was nearly junked after its second season, but a letter-writing campaign (among the first of such events in pop culture) begat a third season. Alas, the “five year mission” of the opening voiceover never happened, but that third season got the series past a certain numeric threshold—there was enough material to sell the program into syndication.

This, of course, is where things took off. (A short-lived animated series also kept the flame alive.) Soon there were conventions, and, in time, a deal in place for series creator Gene Roddenberry to develop a show called Star Trek: Phase II . Then Star Wars hit and everyone saw dollar signs. Phase II was repackaged into The Motion Picture .

As anyone who has seen both films can tell you, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Wars are galaxies apart. Star Wars is a high fructose romp through ‘30s serials. ST:TMP , for better or worse, is sober, serious, and intentionally heavy . The look is also a relic of its time. From the texture of its film grain to the orange hue of the carpet on refit Enterprise recreation deck, it bellows out “late ‘70s!”

“ Star Wars is a high fructose romp through ’30s serials, while Star Trek: The Motion Picture is, for better or worse, sober, serious, and intentionally heavy .”

The reason why this is the movie’s fourth draft isn’t all that sexy. The theatrical version simply had a December deadline that director Robert Wise, working with state-of-the-art special effects, simply couldn’t meet. Much of the disdain surrounding the film stems from the fact that what was lingering for years was essentially a working cut. Many shots would eerily begin before any movement. This has a psychological effect on the viewer—one that can put you to sleep.

Then there was a Special Longer Edition (actual name) made for television, absolutely the wrong direction to take this in. (It also included non-sequiturs and continuity errors.) This is what was released to VHS, in a grotesque, cropped form.

In 2001, a team working directly with Robert Wise made appropriate edits to the movie and created special effects that worked for the standard definition DVD format. It really helped the story move along, but some of the visual gags (not so much the costumes, colors, and all the whiz-bang light-up panels on the ship, but the outer space stuff) still looked hazy. Finally, in 2022, it has all come together.

The funny thing about this movie is that people think it was a total flop. It wasn’t. It made decent money ($82MM worldwide on a budget of $35MM), just not what the studio was expecting. It was successful enough for Paramount to roll the dice a second time and make Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , a pop culture masterpiece that put dilithium back into the franchise, bringing us sequels, The Next Generation , and the wider Trek universe still expanding today. TMP was even nominated for three Oscars. (How Jerry Goldsmith lost for his miraculous original score to A Little Romance is a far greater scandal than anything Will Smith did.)

As far as the plot? Okay, the truth is not too much really happens in this 136-minute movie. A bunch of people get together on a ship, fly away to go inspect something, and then some trippy consciousness-expanding mumbo jumbo happens. Along the way a woman stands on an X and very eerily points at something no less than four times.

What it’s really about, however, is a somewhat counter-intuitive rebuke of technology in favor of human connection. Easy to say when you’ve got transporters and warp drive, eh Starfleet? Still, despite the unusually cold spin to the performances, when there are cracks of humanity between these characters, the emotion really jumps out. It’s a big diss to the Vulcan pursuit of mechanical logic, even suggesting that this philosophy can lead to genocidal destruction.

For decades fans have cherry-picked the best parts of this movie. At conventions you will always see a woman rocking an Ilia Probe look (that’s a bald head, white robe, and ruby crystal on the throat) or trying for a “Disco Bones,” the bearded Dr. McCoy in the 23rd century equivalent of a leisure suit. There’s always been a sheepish quality around loving TMP . “Yeah, yeah, I know it’s boring, but I dig it.”

I think, with this new coat of paint, those days are gone. If you put aside your skepticism and don’t wince at the very feelings-first scenes, there’s enough spectacle that even “regular” people will like it. Yes, it’s one of the least energetic entries in the entire Star Trek canon, but it’s also the only one with a lengthy, near-fetishistic survey of the Enterprise in spacedock, begging for you to hit pause. In 4K, it really goes where it’s never gone before.

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How Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K Director's Edition puts the Star Wars Special Editions to shame

The best way to upgrade a classic science fiction film is to change it as little as possible.

The human adventure is just beginning. At the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), these words appeared on screen in plain white text. In the most recent 4K director’s edition , those words are in golden text. Believe it or not, this is one of the more radical changes made to the first theatrical Star Trek film.

Here’s why the beautiful new 4K restoration of this Trek film takes a subtle approach to updating an older sci-fi movie. And how it course corrects a trend established by the infamous Star Wars special editions .

Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Director’s Edition

The Enterprise leaves spacedock in the 4K version.

On April 5, 2022, the new 4K restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Director’s Edition debuted on Paramount+. Overseen by David Fein, Daren Dochterman , and Mike Matessino, this cut of the film is, essentially, a spruced-up version of a previously released “director’s edition” from the year 2001. Back then, director Robert Wise was still alive and approved a few of the movie’s bigger changes, which, for the most part, are very minor.

In other words, just like there have been multiple “Special Editions” of the 1977 Star Wars or the 1982 Blade Runner , this isn’t the first time Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been re-released. In 1983, a “Special Longer Versions” of the film hit VHS , which notoriously spliced in footage from one of the film’s deleted scenes, creating a continuity error in which Kirk is wearing two radically different spacesuits just seconds apart.

Neither the 2001 nor the new 2022 Director’s Edition have these kinds of problems, but that doesn’t mean Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a perfect movie. Whether it's 1979, 1983, 2001, or 2022, the film is still a fairly humorless, slow-paced, and derivative of a pre-existing TOS episode, “The Changeling.” These days, homages and Easter eggs in Trek feel normal, considering there’s so much material to work with. But in 1979, there had only been 79 episodes of TOS . Why the eventual shooting story was, in essence, the same story that The Original Series had already told is still baffling.

Of course, there are various explanations for why The Motion Picture was written and filmed the way it was, and those accounts have filled several books, including Return to Tomorrow by Preston Neal Jones , The First Star Trek Movie by Sherilyn Connelly, The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry and Susan Sackett, Chekov’s Enterprise by Walter Koenig.

tl;dr: Nearly the entirety of the 1970s were filled with attempts to get a Star Trek film made, which, at one point, resulted in a new Star Trek TV series entering pre-production, and that failed TV show eventually resulted in The Motion Picture .

A classic science fiction film

The remastered Enterprise in the 4K Director’s Edition of The Motion Picture . This is not a new VFX shot.

But the power of The Motion Picture has almost nothing to do with its story or the behind-the-scenes machinations. Like much of what is powerful about Star Trek, the subtext matters more than the context. Even with its flaws, there’s no denying this is a classic science fiction film. And it’s also obvious the film made history in many significant ways: It was the first major motion picture based upon a TV series, it was the first mainstream science fiction film to use the word “wormhole,” and it was the first feature film in what would become the ever-expanding Star Trek media franchise. Released on December 6, 1979, The Motion Picture was the literal last word in the sci-fi cinema of the 1970s, a bold and thoughtful film that has proven itself more timeless than some of its peers, most notably, the 1977 version of Star Wars .

From a purely superficial standpoint, what makes the new 4K Director’s Edition so shocking is how well the visual effects and overall design of the film hold up to contemporary scrutiny. The Star Trek franchise wouldn’t begin using Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic until Wrath of Khan in 1982, meaning the effects and production design of TMP came from a combination of talents including Doug Trumball, Alex Weldon, Robert Abel, and legendary model and prop-maker Brick Price, credited on screen for the first time in this 2022 edition.

There are a lot of behind-the-scenes reasons why The Motion Picture had so many cooks in the VFX kitchen, most of which are detailed in Jeff Bond’s amazing 2020 book, Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Art and Visual Effects , but the result is clear: From the redesigned USS Enterprise to the mysterious V’Ger cloud to the massive sets and, of course, Spock’s ultra-memorable space-walk scene, the way The Motion Picture looked in 1979 was an achievement in a specific type of science fiction cinema which, can only be called epic . Arguably, it hasn’t been replicated, and seeing it in 4K only proves how amazing it looked the first time around.

What the Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Director’s Edition changes

Kirk arrives at Starfleet Command in a new VFX shot. This is one of only a handful of “new” shots in the “Director’s Edition” of the film.

So, what did the new 4K version change? Essentially, everything about the original cut of the film simply looks crisper and clearer. Some of the sounds have been remixed for clarity, most notably, the trippy “wormhole” scene. A few new VFX shots have been either added or cleaned up, specifically when Admiral Kirk arrives at Starfleet Command toward the beginning of the film. And yes, the font for the opening and closing credits is gold now, not white.

But the result is pretty much the exact opposite of watching any of the various “Special Editions” of Star Wars: A New Hope . Although the enhanced DeathStar battle in the Special Edition of Star Wars is, admittedly, great, The Motion Picture didn’t actually need to do anything radical like that. Starship shots have not been replaced with new angels, and the meaning of each scene has not been changed. There is no “ maclunkey” moment in the Director’s Edition for The Motion Picture . There are no distracting CGI characters. The movie is simply the movie, just way better looking.

Because The Motion Picture is arguably the most beautiful Star Trek film of them all, this means this restoration doesn’t feel silly or gimmicky. This is Star Trek as it was in 1979, which, watching it now, feels shockingly brand new.

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