Star Trek - The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition)

Starring:Stephen Collins, Leonard Nimoy
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Back when the first Star Trek feature was released in December 1979, the Trek franchise was still relatively modest, consisting of the original TV series, an animated cartoon series from 1973-74, and a burgeoning fan network around the world. Series creator Gene Roddenberry had conceived a second TV series, but after the success of Star Wars the project was upgraded into this lavish feature film, which reunited the original series cast aboard a beautifully redesigned starship U.S.S. Enterprise. Under the direction of Robert Wise (best known for West Side Story), the film proved to be a mixed blessing for Trek fans, who heatedly debated its merits; but it was, of course, a phenomenal hit. Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) leads his crew into the vast structures surrounding V'Ger, an all-powerful being that is cutting a destructive course through Starfleet space. With his new First Officer (Stephen Collins), the bald and beautiful Lieutenant Ilia (played by the late Persis Khambatta) and his returning veteran crew, Kirk must decipher the secret of V'Ger's true purpose and restore the safety of the galaxy. The story is rather overblown and derivative of plots from the original series, and avid Trekkies greeted the film's bland costumes with derisive laughter. But as a feast for the eyes, this is an adventure worthy of big-screen trekkin'. Douglas Trumbull's visual effects are astonishing, and Jerry Goldmith's score is regarded as one of the prolific composer's very best (with its main theme later used for Star Trek: The Next Generation). And, fortunately for Star Trek fans, the expanded 143-minute version (originally shown for the film's network TV premiere) is generally considered an improvement over the original theatrical release. --Jeff Shannon

Star Trek Movie Set (The Motion Picture/ The Wrath of Khan/ The Search for Spock/ The Voyage Home/ The Final Frontier/ The Undiscovered Country/ Generations/ First Contact/ Insurrection/ Nemesis)
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ASIN: B000A6T262
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Spanning two decades and countless light years of interstellar adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Collection is a testament to the enduring goodwill of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic sci-fi concept. Long before Star Wars sparked an explosion of big-screen science fiction, Roddenberry had planned a second Star Trek TV series; the project fizzled, but its pilot script evolved into the first film in Paramount's most lucrative movie franchise. Despite its sluggish pace and bland "pajama" costuming, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) offered a welcomed reunion of the "Classic Trek" cast, packed with Douglas Trumbull's still-dazzling special effects. Trekkers were even more ecstatic when The Wrath of Khan (1982) revived the spirit of the original series, even though director Nicholas Meyer was a Trek neophyte. With Leonard Nimoy directing, The Search for Spock (1984) began where Khan left off, with a thrilling (albeit contrived) obligation to resurrect the formerly ill-fated Mr. Spock.

A box-office smash, Nimoy's The Voyage Home (1986) is the franchise's most accessible adventure--a high point offset by William Shatner's comparatively dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Meyer (and his penchant for quoting Shakespeare) returned for The Undiscovered Country (1991), a conspiracy thriller that put the series back on track, inspiring fans to invoke the "even number" rule in rating their franchise favorites. Generations (1994) gracefully passed the torch to TV's The Next Generation, bidding farewell to Captain Kirk with honor and integrity intact. Highlighted by the evolving humanity of Brent Spiner's android Lt. Cmdr. Data, First Contact (1996) explored Star Trek history with a logical (hint) surprise encounter, and Insurrection (1998) provided an adequate expansion of the successful NextGen series. Taken as a whole, these ten films demonstrate the consistent vitality of Roddenberry's original vision, stoking any Trekker's appetite for "ongoing missions" in Nemesis and beyond. --Jeff Shannon Most of the feature films were released early in the DVD era, but are represented here in their vastly improved two-disc special editions, which boast widescreen anamorphic pictures, director's cuts of the first two films, numerous commentary tracks by cast and crew, humorous and informative trivia subtitle tracks by Michael and Denise Okuda, and a wide variety of new and vintage documentaries and galleries.

Customer Reviews:

Star Trek Movie Collection.......2007-06-27

Overall this is an excellent collection of films. The Special/Director's Editions are wonderful upgrades to the original Dvd releases of the films. I would rate each individual movie as follows:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
B-

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
A+

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
A-

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
A

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
C+

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
A-

Star Trek: Generations
A-

Star Trek: First Contact
A

Star Trek: Insurrection
A-

Star Trek: Nemesis
A+

A Must Have!.......2007-06-27

I have seen all the movies before but with the extras it is a new expeience.

Star Trek DVD.......2007-05-29

100% Satisfied.
Bonus CD's are marvelous.
Delivered well within the time limit in perfect condition

Star Trek Movie Set.......2007-05-24

Excellent....This box set of Star Trek Movies from Captain Kirk to Captain Picard is spectacular. The money is worth it. The DVD'S quality, sound, graphics, etc... are top-notch. Do I need to say more.

Can't Go Wrong With Star Trek.......2007-05-22

The set has great special features and interviews that I had missed on the previous versions of the movies. I loved it! The set is well worth it, even if you have the original movies.

Star Trek - The Motion Picture: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

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Waiting for Orignal Release.
Still the biggest Star Trek fim to date.
Different... but not necessarily better
Too many effects, not enough story...but not bad
Awesome movie, terrible re-release

Star Trek - The Motion Picture: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: Majel Barrett , Ralph Brannen , Roger Aaron Brown , Ralph Byers , and Stephen Collins
Director: Robert Wise
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Release Date: 2001-11-06

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Back when the first Star Trek feature was released in December 1979, the Trek franchise was still relatively modest, consisting of the original TV series, an animated cartoon series from 1973-74, and a burgeoning fan network around the world. Series creator Gene Roddenberry had conceived a second TV series, but after the success of Star Wars the project was upgraded into this lavish feature film, which reunited the original series cast aboard a beautifully redesigned starship U.S.S. Enterprise. Under the direction of Robert Wise (best known for West Side Story), the film proved to be a mixed blessing for Trek fans, who heatedly debated its merits; but it was, of course, a phenomenal hit. Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) leads his crew into the vast structures surrounding V'Ger, an all-powerful being that is cutting a destructive course through Starfleet space. With his new First Officer (Stephen Collins), the bald and beautiful Lieutenant Ilia (played by the late Persis Khambatta) and his returning veteran crew, Kirk must decipher the secret of V'Ger's true purpose and restore the safety of the galaxy. The story is rather overblown and derivative of plots from the original series, and avid Trekkies greeted the film's bland costumes with derisive laughter. But as a feast for the eyes, this is an adventure worthy of big-screen trekkin'. Douglas Trumbull's visual effects are astonishing, and Jerry Goldmith's score is regarded as one of the prolific composer's very best (with its main theme later used for Star Trek: The Next Generation). And, fortunately for Star Trek fans, the expanded 143-minute version (originally shown for the film's network TV premiere) is generally considered an improvement over the original theatrical release. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Waiting for Orignal Release........2007-06-22

I sew this movie back in 1982 in betamex and i really like it very very much. I was hoping to see it again without any enhancement in DVD with a very good sound remastering like DTS. However most of new editions like Dir cut sometimes tend to make the movie slowing down and change the style which in most cases give different impression than the original one.

In original version, the opening title was in white text with black color background which was simple and traditional, but i felt it is better. Spock planet scene was showing a lot of other surrounding planets which i personally enjoy that picture. In Dir Cut it is different, its look improved for new generation and there were many scenes deleted and add new ones and trimmed as well. But in somehow i do feel the orignal version is essential for every person who love and sew Star Trek first release.

This is very good movie as it is my favorite one comparing to the rest, it has a good focus into characters and dialog and less action. Which is different than star wars. This movie deserve a DTS sound because for JeryGoldsmith composing here, it is much powerful and dynamic.

Still the biggest Star Trek fim to date........2007-06-12

Last year Star Trek celebrated a monument it turned 40 year and The Next Genration turns 20 this year , Star Trek has had luckly more ups then downs in 1979 it's first major motion picture graced the screen with much ambition.All the crew are here Willam Shatner,Leaonard Nimoy,Deforest Kelly,Nichelle Nichols,George Taki and Walter Koeing and Steven Collens as Com Decker and Persis Khambata as Lt Ilea.The film starts as Klingon ships are attacked by a massive cloud that is seeming to destroy everything in it's path and it is on a course for Earth.At Starfleet command Kirk gets command of the newly refitted Enterprise but must take command from Decker as he and his galliant starship are the only ship that can intercept the alien cloud.But when they reach the cloud they find that there is a massive alien ship with an alien named Vger that is seeking its creator and it will stop at nothing to find.Even if it means destroying earth.

While this film is very grand in scale for the fans who like intellectual plots itmay be endearing to those fans,but for fans who like the action of Star Trek most of these fans including me perfer Star Trek 2 , reveiwers seem to give this film mixed reveiws and it's length somewhat cripples it in 2001 Robert Wise did a refit of the movie and it seems to go by faster and look better.But it will forever be the start of the beloved first crew to the big screen and if anything that what makes this fun to watch.

Different... but not necessarily better.......2007-06-05

This revised version of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" definitely moves at a faster pace than the original, which was notoriously slow. The notorious and nigh-comic scenes of people staring in awe out of windows for minutes on end have been trimmed, for instance.

Yet... the faster pace seems to eliminate some of the mystery and wonder of the original, as well as some of the (admitted limited) character development. My own view is that too much was lost.

As for the new effects, some are definite improvements (Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco) or at least fix continuity errors (Vulcan now looks like it does in the other movies). Some are OK but forgettable (V'ger in orbit around Earth). Some things that should have been easy to fix were cut instead (such as the missing matte when Kirk leaves the airlock). Some things were changed apparently just for the heck of it (the red alert klaxons).

One thing that SHOULD have been fixed, and wasn't (perhaps it couldn't be), was the dim lighting on the Enterprise bridge and the endless film loops on the display screens. This more than anything dates the film and makes it seem relatively primitive.

So... Some aspects better than the original, but some good points lost in the process. On balance, I don't think it any better than the original.

Too many effects, not enough story...but not bad.......2007-05-23

Maybe the title of my review says it all, but here goes. I got to admit, I was somewhat dissapointed with this movie. Although, it was great to see the original crew back from a nearly 10 year hiatus, I have to say that the overall plot of this film was weak. Now I have read reviews saying that this edition has cut out some sub-plots and storylines, so maybe I should watch the original cut, but I just couldn't stay really interested in the overall story. I also think, especially with this edition, the movie was overloaded with too many special effects. Some of the scenes were drawn out just so the effects could be shown. Take the scene when Kirk and Scotty were in the pod boarding the Enterprise toward the beginning of the film. That scene seems like forever. Its just shot after shot of the Enterprise sitting there in space at every angle imaginable while Kirk and Scotty fly around it. Ok, I get the picture..it's the Enterprise..cool shot...now move on please! Another thing is that I don't think the original crew actors had really shaken the rust off yet. They just didn't seem to mesh as well as I had expected. Now I know it seems I'm bashing this film badly, but its not that this is a terrible movie. Maybe I was just expecting better, but I was just dissapointed.

Awesome movie, terrible re-release.......2007-05-17

A more terrible hatchet job I have never seen. They took out a half-hour of dialogue, including a sub-plot essential to the end of the movie and put in a bunch of half-finished special effects shots. It actually makes the movie look cheesier to update the FX. (In one case, half the background is gone! Kirk & McCoy are talking in his quarters, and instead of leaving in the original where the camera cuts back and forth to each of their faces, they took a shot of both of them standing facing each other from 20 min later in the movie and dropped it on the scene. Lame, yes, but what's worse is that the bottom half of the wall is gone! Cummon. They butchered this movie. Just get a VHS copy of it and burn it to DVD. Do yourself a favor.)

Star Trek - The Motion Pictures DVD Collection

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Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!
Hold out
The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot.
Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better
Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results.

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Spanning two decades and countless light years of interstellar adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Collection is a testament to the enduring goodwill of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic sci-fi concept. Long before Star Wars sparked an explosion of big-screen science fiction, Roddenberry had planned a second Star Trek TV series; the project fizzled, but its pilot script evolved into the first film in Paramount's most lucrative movie franchise. Despite its sluggish pace and bland "pajama" costuming, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) offered a welcomed reunion of the "classic Trek" cast, packed with Douglas Trumbull's still-dazzling special effects. Trekkers were even more ecstatic when The Wrath of Khan (1982) revived the spirit of the original series, even though director Nicholas Meyer was a Trek neophyte. With Leonard Nimoy directing, The Search for Spock (1984) began where Khan left off, with a thrilling (albeit contrived) obligation to resurrect the formerly ill-fated Mr. Spock.

A box-office smash, Nimoy's The Voyage Home (1986) is the franchise's most accessible adventure--a high point offset by William Shatner's comparatively dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Meyer (and his penchant for quoting Shakespeare) returned for The Undiscovered Country (1991), a conspiracy thriller that put the series back on track, inspiring fans to invoke the "even number" rule in rating their franchise favorites. Generations (1994) gracefully passed the torch to TV's The Next Generation, bidding farewell to Captain Kirk with honor and integrity intact. Highlighted by the evolving humanity of Brent Spiner's android Lt. Comdr. Data, First Contact (1996) explored Star Trek history with a logical (hint) surprise encounter, and Insurrection (1998) provided an adequate expansion of the successful TNG series. Taken as a whole, these nine films demonstrate the consistent vitality of Roddenberry's original vision, stoking any Trekker's appetite for "ongoing missions" in Nemesis and beyond. --Jeff Shannon

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Star Trek: the motion picture director's edition, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection.

Customer Reviews:

Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!.......2004-12-26

There is no point in purchasing this set when it only includes a few of the special edition DVDs. Despite the attractiveness of the box itself, it is best to wait until all of special/director's edition movies come out.

Hold out.......2004-02-25

The special editions are coming! They're done with the first six already, making this collection out of date. Another blow to the set is Nemesis' DVD release. The two together tell me about how old this set is.

(Eric, Montalban's chest is real. Meyer says so on one of the featurettes. It's his trainer's fault if it looks cheesy.)

The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot........2004-01-03

This Box set was one of the first DVD sets I got, almost a year ago. It includes all of the Star Trek movies up to and including Insurrection. This set does not have Nemesis.

A NEW BOX SET with that 10th Movie is out now.

Heads Up -- this 9 movie set (which I own and watched) and the other 10 movie collection do not include all of the Special Editions. So you get a little less bonus material, and it is pricey. But hey, it is Star Trek.

The First 3 films in this set have two discs with lots of extras, interviews, trekkie stuff. The other six are single discs only, and honestly they are pretty light on anything "bonus". Like nil.

The Films are old, and it shows. Just look at the trailers on STTMP, and you'll know what I mean. The effects really do look corny by today's standards, but the stories are solid and the acting is decent -- more or less throughout the whole series.

I will skip the review of each film, and sum it up -- this is a solid buy for the first 9 movies, but additional special edition discs will be coming out soon. You might be better off picking and choosing. But I got this and started my DVD collection with a decent beginning.

Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better.......2003-06-11

This is the date i wrote my review and got this box set. It is so kool + 9 awesome flicks. I have watched 1,2,3,& 4 so far and let me tell you they are nothing like i imagined. I thought they would be like the star trek TV show. But there not they have the same characters and all but so much more. I would really buy this before it goes out of stock again.

Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results........2003-01-29

(Opinions of The Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country are based on years old memory)
The original Star Trek crew worked solely on the basis of its lead trio. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley made for arguably the most charismatic and enjoyable trio to watch in cinematic history. As for the rest of the crew, I didn't much care for anyone else, though George Takei probably came across the best as Sulu, mostly because he never succumbs to the silliness that pervades the other three (Scotty's prat falls, Chekov's accents and mispronunciations, and Uhura's horrific dance number in Star Trek V).

It's been years since I've seen The Motion Picture, and memory serves that it was an engrossing adventure that was so far off from the camp I'd been used to while watching the original TV series. Basically, I liked it, and this is without having seen the director's cut, which I hope to catch some day. The Motion Picture is decidedly an attempt at the kind of cerebral science fiction that 2001 attempted, and while I'm quite certain it's not in the same league as that film, it holds its own.

Ooh, boy, it's with The Wrath of Khan that I'm sure people will shouting blasphemy when I state that I actually didn't much enjoy the film. Sure, the effects were good and the trio was as entertaining to watch as usual, but Nicholas Meyers' direction is stale, Ricardo Montalban is a cheesy-looking villain (that fake chest can't help, either) who talks tough without actually proving his dangerousness, and the space battles prove to be little different than two submarines stalking each other. The idea of two starships battling each other has never appealed to me, and the case is no different here. I will admit, however, that Spock's death scene is poignant.

Star Trek III is even worse than II. Cheap-looking sets, meaningless blather, and the overall snail pace make this easily the most boring film of the entire franchise. The only highlight is Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon commander.

Star Trek IV is a marked improvement, an enjoyable and funny fish-out-of-water tale. There's little else going on here than seeing our beloved crew interact in the 20th century, but that alone is enough to inspire a barrage of belly laughs, particularly Spock's use of colorful metaphors. Catherine Hicks' rather neurotic performance as a whale specialist is pretty annoying, and a downspot in an otherwise entertaining outing.

Star Trek V is easily the silliest of the lot, but it's also kind of fun and the premise is the most ambitious of them all: it's an all-out quest for God, who is believed to live in the center of the galaxy. The trio is given more screentime together here than in any other film, Jerry Goldsmith's score is marvelous (the best of the series), and there's actually a genuine sense of awe when they reach their destination. Oh, this isn't a good movie, but it's an undeniable watchable and often entertaining one, and I personally liked it more than Star Trek III.

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Devoted Star Trek fans will surely cite the "even number" rule in evaluating the Original Crew Movie Collection, but all six of these films qualify as rousing entertainment. Undeniably, the even-numbered films in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise tended to be the best, as demonstrated by the superiority of The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, and The Undiscovered Country. And yet each film has something to offer die-hard Trekkers, beginning with the epic-scale wonders of the first Motion Picture (presented here as a two-disc special edition). Evolving from Gene Roddenberry's aborted attempt at a second Star Trek TV series, the effects-laden Motion Picture divided fans while proving that Star Trek had a promising big-screen future. Nicholas Meyer's The Wrath of Khan made good on that promise, reviving the Star Trek spirit and proving, in the case of Mr. Spock, that beloved characters "never really die." It's widely regarded as the best of these half-dozen features.

With its deadly Klingon confrontation, the Leonard Nimoy-directed Search for Spock was a thrilling (albeit contrived) excuse for Spock's inevitable resurrection, and its somber tone was readily countered by the Earth-based humor of Nimoy's The Voyage Home, combining a planetary crisis with a lively--and phenomenally popular--time-travel plot line. Unfortunately, William Shatner then lobbied for the director's chair, and The Final Frontier--an uneasy mixture of cheesy humor and grandiose themes--was the regrettable outcome. Paramount rallied by inviting Nicholas Meyer to repeat his Khan success, and Meyer rose to the occasion with the sharply scripted thrills of The Undiscovered Country. By ending the film with an official signature send-off from the "classic Trek" cast, the original crew brought their big-screen legacy to a graceful and upbeat conclusion, setting the stage for a transitional adventure in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Turn Off Your Mind, Relax...And Go Where No Man, etc........2007-06-16

This was an inpulse purchase. Short version of a long story, while wiki-ing the night away, one link led to another which led to Ebert's review of "The Voyage Home" (you know, the one with the whales). He liked it. Since it was 3:00 AM, logic was not a factor so I found this box-set on Amazon, and one-click later...

I have to say that although I was never much of a Star Trek fan, I ended up watching all 3 of the "arc" movies: Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Free Willy, I mean, Voyage Home. I enjoyed them all. They had the same old corny, humanistic, vaguely-mystical, always-swashbuckling appeal that made the original "Star Trek" series pleasant, albeit mindless, TV-viewing. And it is fun to see Montalban's plastic pecs (I don't buy his coy demurral that "everyone was in great shape".)

Unlike other space movies, like Stars Wars, let's say, these movies do not take themselves at all seriously, and therein lies their charm.

Caveat emptor: If you have seen these movies before, they do NOT improve with age. They are timeless...sort of like memories of childhood. The science is questionable...like "slinging" around the Sun to time-travel. Just don't think about it.

Even numbered Star Trek movies don't suck.......2007-05-20

A lot of Star Trek was about dealing with Aliens;
communicating with people who are different in fundamental ways.
Today we get the feeling that the human race can't even communicate
with itself when it comes to science.
Science has clearly warned about extreme climate change
dangers ( very like those of the genesis planet in StartTrek III),
yet politicians,leaders of industry and those who are generally
getting rich from the rape of the planet Earth refuse
to substantially change their damaging behavior.
We keep contributing to the future's "plastic Layer"!
I think in Star Trek II with the genetically engineered
ego maniac shows us that humanity has a lot to learn
about itself!Star Trek IV is one of my all time favorites.

Star Trek.......2007-02-02

The Star Trek movies are really great movies. I am very glad that I bought them.

A Must Have for every fan of Star Trek.......2007-02-02

All 6 of the Original Crew movies all in one package. And the conversion to DVD...it's like watching completely new and better movies. Even Star Trek V is a better movie, and that's saying something. I especially liked the recut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All the added and improved scenes makes it an entirely new movie. Now it's more about the story, than showing off the new cool special effects of that time. Every fan of Trek needs to check these movies out and experience them all over again!

Can't beat the Originals.......2007-01-27

The Original Crew Movie Collection is for all of you who grew up watching Star Trek: The Original Series. You know who your favorite characters are, and you don't need 4 extra movies from Rick Berman who has run the series into the ground. Don't believe me, believe the box office, Starting with 7, the Next Gen movies have steadily decreased in overall box office sales. Culminating with Nemesis that completely bombed at the theaters.

You know who the best crew is, and you don't mess with the best.

Star Trek - The Motion Pictures Collection

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Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!
Hold out
The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot.
Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better
Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results.

Star Trek - The Motion Pictures Collection
Starring: William Shatner , Patrick Stewart , and Leonard Nimoy
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Spanning two decades and countless light years of interstellar adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Collection is a testament to the enduring goodwill of Gene Roddenberry's optimistic sci-fi concept. Long before Star Wars sparked an explosion of big-screen science fiction, Roddenberry had planned a second Star Trek TV series; the project fizzled, but its pilot script evolved into the first film in Paramount's most lucrative movie franchise. Despite its sluggish pace and bland "pajama" costuming, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) offered a welcomed reunion of the "classic Trek" cast, packed with Douglas Trumbull's still-dazzling special effects. Trekkers were even more ecstatic when The Wrath of Khan (1982) revived the spirit of the original series, even though director Nicholas Meyer was a Trek neophyte. With Leonard Nimoy directing, The Search for Spock (1984) began where Khan left off, with a thrilling (albeit contrived) obligation to resurrect the formerly ill-fated Mr. Spock.

A box-office smash, Nimoy's The Voyage Home (1986) is the franchise's most accessible adventure--a high point offset by William Shatner's comparatively dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Meyer (and his penchant for quoting Shakespeare) returned for The Undiscovered Country (1991), a conspiracy thriller that put the series back on track, inspiring fans to invoke the "even number" rule in rating their franchise favorites. Generations (1994) gracefully passed the torch to TV's The Next Generation, bidding farewell to Captain Kirk with honor and integrity intact. Highlighted by the evolving humanity of Brent Spiner's android Lt. Comdr. Data, First Contact (1996) explored Star Trek history with a logical (hint) surprise encounter, and Insurrection (1998) provided an adequate expansion of the successful TNG series. Taken as a whole, these nine films demonstrate the consistent vitality of Roddenberry's original vision, stoking any Trekker's appetite for "ongoing missions" in Nemesis and beyond. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Do Not Buy This -- Be Patient!.......2004-12-26

Hold out.......2004-02-25

(Eric, Montalban's chest is real. Meyer says so on one of the featurettes. It's his trainer's fault if it looks cheesy.)

The First 9 -- some extras, but not a lot........2004-01-03

This Box set was one of the first DVD sets I got, almost a year ago. It includes all of the Star Trek movies up to and including Insurrection. This set does not have Nemesis.

A NEW BOX SET with that 10th Movie is out now.

The First 3 films in this set have two discs with lots of extras, interviews, trekkie stuff. The other six are single discs only, and honestly they are pretty light on anything "bonus". Like nil.

Captains Log 6/11/03 Star Trek just got better.......2003-06-11

Sci-fi adventure, with mixed results........2003-01-29