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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1979 DVD Release: 11/06/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Director's Cut,Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 2 hrs 16 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 9 Genres: Science Fiction, Space Adventure See Also: Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint]

When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the starship Enterprise, James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is an unhappy, desk-bound admiral at Starfleet headquarters. Kirk goes aboard his old vessel to observe its re-launch under new captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins). Soon, however, an escalating crisis causes Kirk to take command of his old ship. A mysterious, planet-sized energy force of enormous power is headed for Earth. Reunited with Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and the rest of his former colleagues, Kirk takes the Enterprise inside the massive energy cloud and discovers that it is the long-lost NASA space probe Voyager. Now a sentient being after accumulating centuries of knowledge in its deep space travels, the alien, which calls itself V'ger, has come home seeking its creator. Although not a critical home run, box office receipts for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) were strong enough to inspire a revamped television series and a long-running line of theatrical sequels. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy - Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley - Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Stephen Collins - Cmdr. Willard Decker
James Doohan - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
George Takei - Hikaru Sulu
Walter Koenig - Pavel Chekov

The first Star Trek film, which brought the original cast back to the screen for the first time after the cancellation of the groundbreaking TV series, gets a thorough overhaul for its presentation on DVD. The film has been given a letterboxed transfer in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, as well as new Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Surround sound mixes, supervised by Robert Wise, the film's director. Wise also teams up with special effects artists Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, composer Jerry Goldsmith, and actor Stephen Collins for a bonus commentary track; Goldsmith's score has also been isolated on a separate track. Michael Okuda, who co-wrote -The Star Trek Encyclopedia, also contributes an essay on the film. The movie has also been re-edited by Wise for this edition with refurbished and restored special effects. A bonus disc includes footage from the original theatrical release and the broadcast television presentation that Wise deleted for this cut; three separate documentary featurettes; highlights from the film's storyboards; and a number of theatrical trailers and commercial spots for the film, including one created specially for this new edition of the film. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide