Star Trek Fan Visits The Set of The Motion Picture and Interviews William Shatner Very Rare Footage

Star Trek Fan Visits The Set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Interviews William Shatner Very Rare Footage

[@buzzinpoa]

What a precious moment for a fan: to walk around the sets and, most of all, MEET the very own Star Trek Captain Kirk, William Shatner...!! Certainly, a dream come true...!!! ❤❤❤

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

All it cost was 5 minutes with Savile

[@Sienar7]

@@pennywisethedancingclown2246 and Stephens Collins hiding just round the corner.

[@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow]

​@@Sienar7not many will get that, but I know exactly what you mean!

[@fm21uk]

& what a 💩 storm of a decision to put a video of SAVILLE on here - one of the WORST SEXUAL PREDATORS of the 70s 80s & 90s ….. please report this video. Must be removed!!!

[@TheRivrPrncess]

She is so fortunate to have been there and talked at length to William Shatner. She is so poised and he is being so nice. Great interview.

[@trhansen3244]

I cannot remember which role she played. I even got out my blu ray and looked. Was she maybe the transporter woman on the space station?

[@Kingofallfunnelheads]

LMAO

[@randallfloyd2982]

She was not in the film.

[@mr.adventure0142]

I think for this kid was this encounter with a famous actor like William Shanter the most beautiful and happiest moments on has ever undertaken.

[@neil5978]

I remember seeing this at the time and as a massive Star Trek fan, being insanely jealous

[@dtuk22]

Surreal seeing Jim Kirk wearing a 1970's suit? on the bridge of the Enterprise.

[@wkanost]

I remember walking home from high school thinking WOW! Star Trek the Motion Picture is being released this weekend. We had plans to drive to a small theater in Bloomington Indiana to see it. Fun times!

[@colinmontgomery1956]

​@planetpopvideos4418, December of '79.

[@fredgarv79]

I skipped out on work to go see it, I was supposed to be a student security guard at a small college, filled out my time form for 4 hours, left and went to see the movie. What a boring movie, way way too long and it basically had this simple plot to it. All the actors seemed stiff, shatner seemed stiff. what a dissapointment it was

[@jmacdermott8871]

Great shots of the Paramount lot and the Enterprise set - that was very cool to see! Thanks for sharing this.

[@james__page]

Here for all the fan comments who have no idea who Jimmy Saville is

[@danwilson9530]

John Lydon was right about what a filthy creep Saville was. Hope he’s enjoying his retirement from life in Hell.

[@shaund.2273]

A disgusting and reprehensible paedo. May he rot in hell.

[@williamdiffin28]

Sir James Savile OBE KCSG was a British broadcaster and philanthropist who in his lifetime single-handedly raised over £40,000,000 for charities. After his death at the age of 84, he left most of his £4,300,000 estate to his own charitable foundation.

[@Dean_dialectic]

@@williamdiffin28and shafted kids in exchange for that charity money. He also has a diminished and deluded lingering fan base/apologists who are utter filth

[@human7740]

Knowing that Jim was a paedophile makes this seem like a horror movie.

[@larrylarry1]

I hope Kim is still around and doing well and enjoying Star Trek and Bill Shatner!

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

After an experience with Savile? Yeah sure...

[@acmenipponair]

@@pennywisethedancingclown2246 Most likely he took her after the shoot, not before...

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

@@acmenipponair 😬

[@leet7489]

@@acmenipponair I mean, he said in the interview they were already doing ADR

[@gavc6442]

Wow this is awesome, I still want to meet William Shatner!! 😂

[@mofo7689]

her manners and respect to William Shatner was spectacular.

[@user-xg7iz4ok5z]

She is so precious!

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

Shame what Savile probably did to her...

[@NeonPixels81]

I know a lot of people dislike him but William Shatner seems like a great celebrity. Not a great guy, but a great celebrity.

[@osvaldofranco9036]

William Shatner is a great guy, the people talking shit about him aren't so nice themselves. ask around...

[@NeonPixels81]

@@osvaldofranco9036 I don't know him personally so that's what I meant by not a great guy, I mean to say I don't know either way. Nice to hear his public persona is the same as his private one, I've always liked him.

[@SJHFoto]

It's fascinating to see the wormhole sequence without the vocal effects they put in. Since Shatner was talking about looping, I imagine, they still had some more looping to do, and that included this scene (He said he only saw parts of the movie, so I am guessing they still had some work to do, or maybe he meant he only saw the parts where he was in it, and had to loop his words?) We didn't get Jim'll Fix it in Canada (or at least, I don't remember ever seeing it), but I knew about it because I used to read Transformers UK comics (among a few other comic books which we DID get in Canada) and it was referenced a bit (remember, this is before internet, so my only exposure were these bits from British media)

[@uttermanbo]

Saville is the kind of guy you'd leave stranded on a distant planet.

[@mistermatix8241]

Strand Savile....on LV426 with plenty of hungry Xenomorphs to play with

[@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow]

Lt Savikk or Saville....

[@TheLowerDecker]

The Theme Variant at 0:58 is the most late 60s sounding thing I've heard!

[@vivalapsych]

And can be found on the album “Leonard Nimoy presents Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space” from 1967. A must have for anyone’s collection.

[@vivalapsych]

Wait! I think that music is gone now..replaced with something atmospheric. …or am I crazy?

[@jaminova_1969]

What a lucky girl and cool interview! William Shatner was super nice!

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

Lucky girl who met Savile? As if

[@somejackball]

saw this at the local theater, when they just expanded, updated their sound systems and everything, bigger screens, was perfect timing!

[@stephenhuntsucker3766]

What an experience to walk around on those sets.

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

Thanks very much for uploading this...I remember seeing it when it went out on air, and I've been looking for it for a long time.

[@paulconway9745]

Huge Star Trek fan...old enough to have seen the colour, re-run, originals on British Tv during the early 70's when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I thought I'd seen most things from Trek, BTS, trailers, interviews, the tv series, movies & then I spotted this linked wording...Star Trek fan visits The SET of the Motion Picture (Trek's 1st film & one that is still vastly underrated, it's not Trek as we remembered it but it's an EPIC story of Adventure & Discovery) how amazing is this! She must have been thrilled to bits, something I bet she's remembered for the rest of her life & when she sees this film it must take her back to this moment. I guess I'd have been about the same age as she is here & boy have I always wanted to get onboard the film version of the ENTERPRISE. I think there was a mock Enterprise Bridge Set-Up at one of the studio's or Disneyland (something like this?) which I had hoped to one day visit, not sure if I ever will now? or if it still exists? There were ARTISTS IMPRESSIONS of a full life size Enterprise placed in VEGAS for folks to wonder around (would have taken ages to do so) and with most of the things to have been in place...BRIDGE, SICK-BAY, TRANSPORTER & ENGINE Rooms, Games rooms, you name it & it was hoped folks could STAY the Night or make it a full week's experience with rooms to sleep over, looked really cool & was mooted around the same time as this first film, alas it never happened...perhaps someone? or some company (PARAMOUNT ;) looking at you) might just do this one day? It would cost probably many hundreds of Millions of pounds (but then again, a mock ship of this size, which is huge & many more times the size of most Hotels in Vegas, would BRING HIM huge amounts & would probably re-coop costs within 10-20 years. I guess perhaps they didn't think STAR TREK would continue for another 45 YEARS!!! that's how long it's been since Star Trek TMP, by now they'd have made a huge profit had they built it & in VEGAS of all places!!! PERFECT) That said, wouldn't it be COOL if at sometime in the FUTURE we had the real thing we could stay in, above us in Space & even if we could not use warp speed to head off to other Star Systems, perhaps we could visit the Moon or with Impulse like ENGINES even other places within our own Solar System. I loved Shatner as Kirk but then in later life the stories began showing up (in this internet era) and the one with Sulu (George Takei) is still ongoing, although not as strong as it was, it's a shame, I think Shatner even admitted he perhaps didn't take into account (at times) some of the original cast which helped make it the HIT it became & George as well as James Doohan (SCOTTY) seemed to have the biggest beef against him, but George took it to whole new level, which is a shame...looks the cast of the JJ movies really do enjoy each other's company & get on, hoping for one more BIG MOVIE from these folks? because the last three movies have all been hugely ENTERTAINING. The poster of this perhaps should EDIT out this EVIL MAN though here introducing the piece & then ending with his traditional award of the badge, how he somehow managed to get away with such unspeakable acts is beyond me & when I caught a glimpse of him I just had to fast forward past him to the NICE STUFF.

[@khlavkhalash5215]

nice of her, she wore her Han Solo outfit

[@jayanxiety]

See! The two franchise's CAN coexist!

[@glenhughes8013]

6:23 Saville true to form, hints at what he's up to.

[@ravensthorne4631]

Yep, I'm sure he wanted to be the first man to fire a rocket into her space, boldly going where no man had gone before...

[@jaymac7203]

Nonce!

[@bernadettemurray8260]

The sad irony is, the blonde actor Stephen Collins in the film clip confessed to multiple sexual misconduct with minors

[@tedcharter4804]

Yeah, that part gives me a chill too.

[@vivalapsych]

Total creep. Never understood his appeal to anyone.

[@OntarioPete]

While I am happy for all the children whose dreams came true back then, seeing the jealousy in jimmy’s eyes when he had to remind her that William Shatner said I love you twice. I am amazed at the power Jimmy Saville possessed in his time. He was even knighted by the queen! He travelled in powerful political circles, had friendships with the British monarchy. He was able to have movie studios do what he asked where they normally wouldn’t have. I’m so conflicted with his amazing good works and darkness he visited upon all the children he was near.

[@amandeepv]

I remember this episode as I remember Shatner saying “Kim I love you”. When was this 1980. Brings back memories

[@morlockmeat]

How wonderful to see that! Thanks for posting!

[@uncleremus7484]

Wow! Pretty cool to see this in 2024 and knowing this existed. Aswome looking physical sets and William Shatner! Thanks for posting!

[@darrensmith6999]

Damm Saville to hel!! l Great job to William Shatner and Paramount pictures.

[@SJHFoto]

That would have been awesome as a kid! Actually, going on the set of a Star Trek movie even now (at 47 years old) would be very cool! And meeting Shatner!

[@mem1701movies]

Well you could pay a boatload and go to the set tour in TICONDEROGA NY when Shatner is there

[@SJHFoto]

@@mem1701movies Thanks, but it is kind of a pipe dream. I try to avoid that kind of hero worship of a man. Especially as my time and resources can much be better spent

[@mem1701movies]

@@SJHFoto I met him for free and he couldn’t have cared less. At least there was a buffet of fine food to eat after such disappointment such as bacon wrapped BBQ shrimp! Then I got a parking ticket.

[@SJHFoto]

@@mem1701movies I can see that. That is why I worship God, not men-idolizing pop stars or celebrities only leads to disappointment

[@johnnybravado7141]

​@@mem1701movieswow a hater. sounds to me like you're the disappointment

[@theamused8705]

That would be so awesome to explore the TMP sets.

[@flashindapan7965]

Shanter, you couldn’t be any cooler.

[@UltimateMadWorld]

This was really kind of Bill Shatner and Paramount Pictures for making this young lady's day memorable, if only they knew then what they know now, with all that being said I had to skip it past the scary monstrous alien sitting on the chair presenting it right enough incase I either have nightmares or throw-up!

[@sentino68]

Would have been nice to see the excerpt she saw. Poor girl looked so nervous.

[@1978rharris]

What a precious moment for a small girl to NOT get touched by Jimmy Savile. I’ll remember this always. A rare gift. In all fairness though, nice bit of trek history here. I’ve never seen this before

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

Well we don't know what Savile did before or after the show. He could've met her in the green room...

[@1978rharris]

@@pennywisethedancingclown2246 just stop! Don’t need that shit bouncing around on my head.

[@kevwolf69]

I indeed remember this clearly. Incredible experience for that young lady, at a time when the Beeb had some integrity but at the same time harbored one of the most evil monsters ever to walk this good earth.

[@trhansen3244]

Evil monster? You mean Trump?

[@kevwolf69]

@@trhansen3244 comparing Donald Trump to Jimmy Saville is probably one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, truly. And I'm in no Trump fan.

[@jakerazmataz852]

@@trhansen3244 Yea, that's why he's known as the child sniffer. And likes kids stroking his legs. Oh, sorry, cockroaches.

[@matthewlongstaff3112]

​@@trhansen3244Savile, who was actually a serial rapist and pedophile.

[@GavinScrimgeour]

@@trhansen3244 You cretin!

[@brian_belmont87]

If they did a star trek experience with that ship and those huge long hallways leading to specific areas of the ship as a tour so many people would go to that yearly. It would be insane. They would not even have to have actions sequences or anything. Just talking about and showing the warp core, explaining the anti matter chamber to the bridge science, weapons, navigation ect.

[@sureshmukhi2316]

Wow, Shatner was being true to character as Kirk when he told the girl "I love you " three times.

[@1977TA]

Exactly how he behaved as Kirk in the first season TOS episode Miri during scenes with the young actress who played Miri. If this were any man besides William Shatner, the Kim Hopper interview would be cringe creepy.

[@sureshmukhi2316]

@@1977TA actually in Miri, Kirk was resisting her advances.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@1977TA Notable coincidence, that was KIM Darby (who was 19 at the time, slightly older than this Kim must have been).

[@1977TA]

@@sureshmukhi2316 He was also romancing her so that she would let her guard down and lead him to the hiding place the kids were staying at.

[@jorgezarco9269]

Paranoid Pictures. Even Shatner thought the pacing of Star Trek TMP was "slow and sluggish". "Captain" was misspelled as "captian". Oh, well.

[@GarretGrayCamera]

This was more than just a quick interview. Those walking shots were all done on a dolly. Not really that easy to pack up in England and take with you.

[@miniskunk]

I suspect since this was done as a promo for the movie Paramount had supplied the film crew/equipment.

[@GarretGrayCamera]

@@miniskunk I didn't think about that. I bet kids from all over and different tv stations came in to do the same thing and they made a day of it to promo the film.

[@ShadowBoss0001]

That's so cool I was just a little boy when the first star trek tmp movie was done

[@gruphenio6787]

Pinewood Studio’s deserves some credit for this

[@michaelharper5051]

A shame that Saville wasn't edited out of this clip

[@Nigel-xp4rf]

If this ever goes into the special features of a future re-release of the Motion Picture or a compilation of all the Trek movies, it probably will be edited and the Fix It segments replaced by either some appropriate images or a intro by any survivors of the cast

[@VolosStefan]

Late Seventies fashion 🤣🤣🤣

[@jorgezarco9269]

Frozen vegetables, frozen ice cream. STOCK THAT FREEZER!

[@kingdave31]

It's nice to see Denny Crane when he was young.

[@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882]

That was an amazing moment … the sets were huge. it was interesting also, that when the young lady was walking the sets, the flooring appeared to sound like mezzanine… they really spent serious money on it…

[@Molotovjack]

This is great. Just such a shame that Saville's name is anywhere near it.

[@silvereagle2061]

Very cool indeed.

[@BronzeAgeBryon]

Can you even imagine this happening today? Such a simpler time when a letter can bring about such a thing.

[@fredgarv79]

I read that when they were making the original series, people if they new anybody at all, could just walk on the set and watch them film it, as long as they were quiet.

[@bernadettemurray8260]

I also remember this interview

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

Mannnn, this is pretty cool! What a guy

[@LineaDeus]

*Strange, probably the only film of the interior sets from the Motion Picture.... Though it was was a bit creepy for Kirk saying Kim I love you, over and over.... On the Jimmy Saville show.*

[@mikedenmark]

This is absolutely priceless 👏

[@NYRICANteach]

So happy for that young lady and to see Bill be so courteous. Nothing made me cringe more than seeing Saville. 🤢

[@trhansen3244]

Saville? Was he like the equivalent of Johnny Carson in the UK?

[@matthewlongstaff3112]

​​@@trhansen3244 That, and one of Britain's worst sex offenders.

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

@@trhansen3244 He had over 400 victims over 50 years. He was an appalling man. Worse still? The higher ups allowed it to happen. He abused children who were on his show, and he was given exclusive access to children's hospitals, care homes and spinal recovery unit while volunteering. Hell, he even had his own room at a children's hospital. He was a truly sick and evil monster who got away with everything.

[@imixmuan9081]

What did she have to do to get that interview one wonders. F'ing Jimmy Saville. Johnny Rotten was absolutely spot on about him....

[@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748]

how do you get rid of savile , with a photon tor-pedo

[@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroup]

Dressed like Han Solo with tap shoes.

[@user-xg7iz4ok5z]

Shatner should have said “ this isn’t my ship!

[@user-xg7iz4ok5z]

He acts more here like the old Kirk here !

[@esausjudeannephew6317]

The ol' Cap'n seems like a hell of a nice Guy

[@randallfloyd2982]

Whats with the horror movie music when she first arrives on the set?

[@VahanNisanian]

Savile doesn't appear in Shatner clip. However, one of the stars in the movie, Stephen Collins, was later outed by his ex-wife as a pedophile rapist.

[@trhansen3244]

Was he? I never heard he raped anyone.

[@escos0410]

I used to write every week to drive a tank!! glad now I never got picked! No words can describe what that man was other than pure evil

[@DannieGemz]

My first thought Jimnmy Savvile creepy as heck and then the creepy music makes you wonder if he chose it

[@richardgadberry8398]

Content Warning: Jimmy Saville.

[@hansolo2406]

"Han Solo visita a enterprise" kkkkkk

[@powerfrenzy]

Damn she doesn't look too impressed walking around the lot & set 😅

[@cuddywifter8386]

I wonder where she is now?

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

6:45-Hearing that now just sounds so wrong

[@TribesOfTheApocalypse]

Space people were consulted

[@tlatosmd7074]

This is odd. Bill gave different answers here than he did in other interviews. It might be understandable he's trying to sell the upcoming THE MOTION SICKNESS, so he's saying here that "this could be what the future is gonna be like", whereas today, he keeps saying we need to fix our home planet (such as on climate change) before we'll ever be allowed to leave it and go elsewhere. It's not even a recent thing, as even by the early 80s, he'd already been a long-time member of Greenpeace, which he still is. Now, as for the other thing he's responding differently to, on the mid-70s STAR TREK interview LP INSIDE STAR TREK, he says that a TV show has such a back-breaking schedule that you end up basically playing yourself from day 1. But the one answer I really cherish here is that Bill's asked about his personal feelings about and relationship with science fiction as a genre, both before and during TOS. The closest question I've ever seen him asked and answer before is on his recent "AI avatar" interview where he's responding to a request to define the genre in general to the young people of Gen Z of today, as if they'd never heard of it before, which doesn't include his personal feelings about it.

[@purefoldnz3070]

I'm survived she survived The Wraith of Saville.

[@jackpayne5101]

I remember this at the time and i was so incredibly jealous, mind you I would of fainted on the spot if he said ' I love you ' to me 😂

[@nickmorris9689]

Now then , now then , now then

[@zafod101]

Creepy Jim

[@rogeriodearaujobonito6377]

Remarkable

[@adamjw2301]

Fuck Saville! but great behind the scenes video of the set! Thanks for the upload!

[@user-iw8om3iy3m]

Maybe Kim has now joined the fleet of the Starship Enterprise. That would be fun. Sometimes wish I could join the crew on Enterprise and then I could get some peace from noisy medieval trains.

[@user-qi8kk4sz7k]

Wow this must have taken some doing what a lucky sod 😮

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

Lucky? To be one of Savile's victims?

[@mistofoles]

Kid looks like Dave Hill.

[@jaymac7203]

Loooooool 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@hgodvilla00]

Minus the mirror-covered cosplay outfit, tall boots, and glitter.

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

6:00- God, I don't wanna know why Savile's crossing his legs

[@Darrenhankin]

Great clip, but we now cringe when we see Jimmy Saville leaning into this girl and saying i love you.

[@fula5]

what a strange girl! The set, incredible.!!

[@andrewparkerlarocca8591]

Not strange, but I can imagine academically gifted. She may well have gone on to become a scientist. 🙂

[@fredgarv79]

@@andrewparkerlarocca8591 exactly, super smart and geeky in a wonderful way

[@nickpmusic]

AI can now remove un-wanted audio in a scene.

[@UberNeuman]

Koko, I love you... ugggghhh...

[@leet7489]

wow Shatner is so reserved here, weird to see

[@psnitkin4059]

2:49 - "Does it look familiar?" "WTF is this place? This doesn't look anything like the TV show I watched! This is phoney Star Trek! I am a Star Trek purist! Fawk this shite!"

[@2660016A]

Now then now then what do we have here.

[@Qwerty789LL]

3:08 "Was you interested in science fiction?" Was you? Isn't the proper way of saying it 'Were you' ? English is not my first language, it just sounded incorrect to my ears.

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

You're correct. "Were you" is the proper way

[@user-tk7pm5ou4l]

It's a type of phrasing used in several dialects around England. There are many colourful local variations of English in this small Island. What appears to sound 'wrong' to fresh ears is in fact the genuine, traditional way of speaking in the region the speaker comes from.

[@legaiaflame]

Shatner being a Sci-Fi fan before Star Trek...You could tell he was lying and made up that bogus story about his writer friends.

[@colinmontgomery1956]

It was all bogus, but Shatner was a good sport for doing this in the first place.

[@FrancisXLord]

These Jim'll Fix It sequences were shot with one camera. Thus every time they cut to a close up of the kid smiling or asking a question the person they are speaking to is likely not whom they're actually looking at (their time with Shatner would have been limited). This explains why the kids always looked so damned wooden and bored whenever you cut to a close up of them. Here you also have a ridiculously extended walk through corridors, no doubt to flesh out the runtime to fit the segment because they didn't have enough Shatner interview to make it up to the required running time for broadcast. God this show was shite in just about every aspect. I realise people weren't exactly spoiled for choice back then but I'd have rather read a book than watch this garbage. I did watch an episode or two in the 80s as a kid, but only because they were Star Wars related, and I remember thinking then how wooden the kids on the show were.

[@johnnybravado7141]

you need to shut up and get a life

[@d.a.b8756]

Poor Kim

[@Semiam1]

Jimmy Saville making little children’s dreams come true…or not.

[@SuperSnakePlissken]

I miss the days when stars were professional, well groomed, and the fans weren't dribbling psychotics losing their minds and living their entire life on welfare and Tik Tok.

[@pennywisethedancingclown2246]

6:34-Makes my skin crawl. Ugh!

[@jjpopnfresh6822]

Jimmy Saville, the OG Harvey Weinstein

[@lesweizman388]

much, much worse

[@Concreteowl]

Stephen Collins and Jimmy Saville 😬

[@RockBandito]

Ouch. Creep factor to warp 11 captain (Saville). Yuck. As someone who has childhood sexual trauma, the second that guy came on screen and how uncomfortably close he got to that girl, my pedophile radar went off

[@pauld5185]

Anyone else think this was kinda creepy?

[@rikmodeler6723]

Jim fixed it for me once .. I milked a cow with a blindfold on …

[@Omegaman1969]

Lucky you, he gave my sister a pearl necklace.

[@rikmodeler6723]

@@Omegaman1969 😃