🚀 Restored Rare Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Behind the Scenes Magic

[@Normanx964]

The first film was 100% underrated. It had the best attention to detail.

[@LukewarmEnthusiast]

While not the most exciting movie, if you have an OLED TV, I *highly* recommend watching the remastered version on Paramount+ or it may be on 4K Blu-ray. But dear God does it look incredible. I grew up watching this and other Trek movies that were recorded on VHS, usually over the of something else. It was like truly seeing it for the first time in all of its glory. This movie may have aged better than any other I have seen.

[@MrAvenger1975]

It's certainly a beautiful movie.

[@diogocatalano9557]

This Enterprise model is absolutely historic. Thanks for sharing.

[@TREK-WORLD]

Indeed it is!

[@sff1987]

Thanks Jim that was great. I've never have seen the shots when they are building the Enterprise.

[@TREK-WORLD]

Hi there! I'm glad you liked it.

[@kevinpresley3136]

I absolutely love the behind the scenes documentaries.Thanks for an educational video.😊😊❤❤🎉🎉

[@TREK-WORLD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrisddawson]

Very cool!! Thank you for sharing😎🖖

[@TREK-WORLD]

Thanks for watching!

[@jorgezarco9269]

Persis Khambatta played a terrorist in Nighthawks(1981). Jerry Goldsmith composed the music. Fred Steiner helped Goldsmith with the music score.

[@davidgaul572]

Great video! Loved this movie. Excellent footage! It had only been ten years since the series had stopped production. Now that I'm an old guy, that really doesn't seem so long a span as it did when I was a young person.

[@TREK-WORLD]

So true, isn't it? It seemed like forever to us back then.

[@davidgaul572]

@@TREK-WORLD Keep doing the good work. I wish I had thought to do something like what you're doing.

[@Barnabas45]

Fascinating!

[@00nick7]

Here's to 45 years! 🎉

[@gsr4535]

My favorite Trek movie. 👍

[@Normanx964]

Sublime.

[@Scottzilla1970]

Brilliant! A lot of footage I've not seen before. Good to see footage of the intruder on the bridge. It's always mentioned they used an electrician but I never fully understood what that entailed. I'm wondering if that rolling ball with the reddish lights on it you see for a moment at the end was the photon torpedo effect. I've read about how they did that but never seen any pictures of them in the process of doing it. Thanks Jim always a pleasure watching your content.

[@TREK-WORLD]

Hi there! Good to see you again. I also had been looking for photos of how they did that as well. Also, this was the first I had heard of them having to wear goggles during rehearsals. I just assumed that they would use the turned off light instead of the turned on light. Kind of sad that this was never completely restored and released on DVD as an extra.

[@MarkHarvey-uh8oc]

I remember a STARLOG 1979 edition about the model production of this film. Worth reading about all the decisions made.

[@kunserndsittizen2655]

Did you ever find that TMP tv trailer having TOS Kirk running into a door stating “all the same humor’?

[@grahamrich3368]

Super documentary! Thank you!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@TREK-WORLD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@NYChemicalRomance]

Your voice reminds me of 7-Zark-7 from Battle of the Planets. Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I’ve just discovered your channel. Ps. Great video. TMP is my fave Trek film. It will never be bettered, in my opinion.

[@TREK-WORLD]

Hi there! I haven't heard that before... although a few people said I sounded like Neelix in Voyager. After listening the the 7-Zark-7 clip, I think I can actually see the resemblance in sound. Thanks for the kind words on the video. Hopefully you will find a few things to keep you entertained. I am in the very earliest stages of moving into the movie eras, so I'll have a video on the TMP studio model before moving into the other studio models.

[@RichardEKranz]

Look close during the rec deck scene one of the crew members is wearing the underside of a 1978 Cylon fighter from Battlestar Galactica.

[@joecoffee968]

Not that quite a few years have passed by I have to say Star Trek TMP is one of my favorites, just as great as The Wrath of Kahn.

[@Eric________]

From what I recall hearing, Shatner actually did (or maybe it was Nimoy?) fall through one of the plexiglass panes of the V'ger set.

[@Eric________]

"Deltan's are hairless except for their eye brows..." 😏

[@gavinelster3168]

@00:01:38. That very room became my office in 1996

[@TREK-WORLD]

That is awesome! What kind of work did you do at the time?

[@gavinelster3168]

@@TREK-WORLD post production for film and video.

[@TREK-WORLD]

Fascinating (no pun intended). Did you work for Paramount at the time? Or was the space occupied by another company by that point?

[@gavinelster3168]

@@TREK-WORLD it was another company on highland ave

[@cbspock1701]

I wonder why they never put this promo film on any release of TMP

[@Ravege98]

Poor Persis 😢

[@edwardwhite4015]

The scenes of Persis Khambatta having her beautiful hair cut off is heart breaking just to fulfill Gene Roddenberry's sexual fantasy of bald chicks.

[@RT-eb6vo]

Nice job.

[@trevorbrown6654]

Not the best ST film by a long way but that is entirely down to the script. However the effort that went into making it is immense as is the attention to detail as we see here. Funny enough the Enterprise model in this promotional film looks like a model but in the film it looks fantastic and real. I guess a lot of that is down to the photography and the lenses used. I saw the remastered film on the big screen again a couple of years ago and it does iron out some of the wrinkles that resulted from the rush to get the film into cinemas in December 1979. Having said that I wish the remastered version had used the same lettering font for the credits that the original version used.

[@bluewinds10]

It's amazing that the models that are over 40 years old look realistic and amazing and the new CGI spaceships look shit.

[@kavinskysmith4094]

wait their was TWO enterprise models, what happened to the 20 inch?

[@collegeman1988]

TMP isn’t my favorite Star Trek movie, but this was interesting to watch. Thanks for posting.

[@FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE]

Long before Ripley there was Persis Khambata (pronounced khaam Baa Taa)

[@jgo1961]

"Nearly every light in Hollywood was used..." Really?

[@TREK-WORLD]

Yeah, it sounds like that may have been marketing hype. The voiceover is word-for-word what the original narration was. So I can't speak for the accuracy of their claims. But we do know that they exaggerated many of their claims about the total production cost of the movie. But then again, I've heard this claim before over the years. It may have even began as a result of this video. -Jim

[@tedcharter4804]

It's a bit depressing to see some of these sets and know that some of them will be used in not only the films but also Next Gen and Voyager. I remember reading an article years ago that said when Voyagers engineering walls were being dismantled they found remains from Phase 1.

[@PHOT0GUY]

The pitch and roll displays at 1:17 were a waste of time when travelling through space in zero gravity.

[@sjeunson1]

Well there was gravity on the enterprise … for some reason?

[@PHOT0GUY]

@@sjeunson1 It made it easier to shoot the scenes when everyone wasn't floating around ;) That still wouldn't make a pitch and roll display of the ship itself useful.

[@sjeunson1]

I get the economical (and technical) reason why gravity existed on the ships in these shows. 2001: A Space Odyssey - my favorite movie and one of the more accurate presentations of no gravity (see Velcro pads everywhere on the Discovery) went out of its way to try and present reality in space. The space station spinning - the Discovery spin room etc. But I get it - Star Trek the show didn’t have the budget and Star Trek the movie which did just went along with the shows conceit. But having the pitch displays did make sense because if you’re going to have gravity on a ship in space- you better know which way is up or down is all I’m saying. Man I’m getting too old for these conversations 😫

[@TREK-WORLD]

Yeah, I tend to agree as well. The only possible use for them could have been in displaying your angle and position relative to a specific object - such as another ship or dock.

[@willdecker4630]

They were never seen in the film but you did see them used in ST 2