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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
1979 · Directed by Robert Wise · 131 min · Science Fiction · Adventure · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
The human adventure is just beginning.
Plot
In the 23rd century, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien entity hidden in a massive energy cloud, moving through space toward Earth. The cloud easily destroys three Klingon warships and Epsilon Nine on its course. At Earth, the starship Enterprise is undergoing a major refit; its former commanding officer, James T. Kirk, has been promoted to admiral. Starfleet Command assigns Enterprise to intercept the cloud entity, as the ship is the only one within range, requiring its new systems to be tested in transit.
Citing his experience, Kirk uses his authority to take command of the ship, angering Captain Willard Decker, who has been overseeing the refit as its new commanding officer. Testing of Enterprise's new systems goes poorly; two officers, including the ship's Vulcan science officer Sonak, are killed by a malfunctioning transporter, and improperly calibrated engines nearly destroy the ship. Kirk's unfamiliarity with the ship's new systems increases the tension between him and Decker, who has been temporarily demoted to commander and first officer. Commander Spock arrives as a replacement science officer, explaining that while on his home world, undergoing a ritual to purge himself of emotion, he felt a consciousness that he believes emanates from the cloud, making him unable to complete the ritual because his human half felt an emotional connection to it.
Enterprise intercepts the energy cloud and is attacked by an alien vessel. A probe appears on the bridge, attacks Spock, and vanishes the navigator, Ilia. She is replaced by a robotic replica, sent by the entity, which calls itself "V'Ger", to study the "carbon units" on the ship. Decker is distraught when it is revealed that the original Ilia, with whom he had a romantic history, has been killed. He attempts to extract information from the doppelgänger, which has Ilia's memories and feelings buried inside. Spock takes an unauthorized spacewalk to the vessel's interior and attempts a telepathic mind meld with it. In doing so, he learns that the entire vessel is V'Ger, a non-biological living machine.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Harold Livingston
- Cinematography: Richard H. Kline
- Edited by: Todd C. Ramsay
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Harold Michelson
- Produced by: Gene Roddenberry, Jon Povill
Cast
- William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
- James Doohan as Cmdr. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
- George Takei as Lt. Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
- Walter Koenig as Lt. Pavel Chekov
- Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Cmdr. Uhura
- Stephen Collins as Captain William Decker
- Persis Khambatta as Lt. Ilia / The Probe
- Majel Barrett as Dr. Christine Chapel
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Century Associates, Robert Wise Productions
- Budget: $44,000,000
- Box office: $139,346,243
- Themes: spacecraft, man vs machine, artificial intelligence (a.i.), self sacrifice, teleportation, san francisco, california, starship, space opera, reunited friends, outer space
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