![]() You might even say that the actors spend Star Trek: The Motion Picture more or less watching Star Trek. The film remains fascinating for its strange marriage of reunion special and philosophical inquiry around an artificial intelligence’s search for its creators. The latter pays off in one of the most thoughtful stories to involve the original series cast, opening religious discussions that suggest that just as humans look to the unknown for answers of their own existence, our ability to program increasingly advanced synthetic life makes us gods of our own. Such lofty philosophical ideas were always central to Star Trek, but in many ways the foregrounding of intellectual curiosity and analysis over whimsical adventure makes Star Trek: The Motion Picture less a logical continuation of the original TV series than the first stirrings of the more cerebral direction that Star Trek: The Next Generation would take the franchise in. ![]() Star Trek: The Motion Picture made enough money to justify a sequel, albeit one subject to much more script and budgetary scrutiny.ĭespite its generally mixed reception, this is the Stark Trek film that feels truest to Gene Roddenberry’s aspirations with the franchise, and Wise’s later-assembled director’s edition sharpens the film’s narrative and thematic points to make it a nearly great film. The result, 1982’s leaner and meaner Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is by leaps and bounds the most well-loved Star Trek film of any era. Reviving popular show villain Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán, reprising his role in the 1967 season one episode “Space Seed”), the film at once feels more concretely tethered to the series’s continuity and more representative of its action-adventure tone.
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