120 Things You Didn't Know About The Star Trek Movies

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[Indrid__Cold]

A lot of people fail to recognize that Kirk's fly-around of the Enterprise in STTMP was that it was a huge animated thank you card from Gene Roddenberry to THE FANS. Of all the things most Star Trek fans had fantasized about during the long years of waiting for SOMETHNG Star Trek was the appearance of the Enterprise with a real budget and modern special effects. I remember very clearly getting a huge lump in my throat when that full crescendo of music reveals the full view of the Enterprise. It was like a dream come true that I'll NEVER forget.

[tommytwotacos]

Christopher Lloyd played one of the best Klingons ever to take the screen. Gowron will always be the most Klingon Klingon in my eyes, but Lloyd's energy and the way his character leans into his more Klingon moments with such enthusiasm really helped my immersion in the spirit of Trek and helped me understand the Klingons more as "people" and less as writing devices or stock antagonists.

[starlingwatch]

Several things led me to be a software engineer. One was an invitation from Harold Livingston, a friend of my father, to visit the Star Trek, the motion picture, sets on the Paramount Lot. They were filming the V’Ger probe scene on the bridge set. In the scene V’Ger sends a probe to scan the Enterprise. The probe was a standard 2 x 4 wood beam with a bunch of strobe lights attached up-and-down. A thick electrical cable ran from the bottom of the beam off the set to the right of the bridge’s view port. A single man sat in front of a mini-computer with a 102 style green terminal. When they were ready to shoot the director would call “Probe on” and the man would type a single key on the terminal keyboard. The strobes would start flashing. I was 16 and already wrote software for mini-computers. I asked the man about the rig. He outfitted a sensor on the film camera to know when the shutter was at its most open position as each frame went through. At that instant his program triggered one of the strobe lights to flash. The effect in the movie gives the probe a brighter-than-white glowing look. The man told me he was hired and was making an income from writing the software problem to make the effect work. This was the first person to show me I could have a career working with software. This was 1978. -Frank Cohen

[sogwatchman]

53:00 The design of the Reliant was supposed to be inverted from what we know it as, with the nacelles on top like the other ships. One of the supervisors not knowing what he was doing held it upside down and said he liked the different design and that accidental change stuck. *edit: spelling

[jyesucevitz]

I hope I not repeating myself. anyways, I was born in '66 and was fortunate to have parents that loved Trek.
financially we would've been considered "poor". so going to the movies was a big deal for me. (especially around Christmas.) my dad took me to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture in it's second week. I even remember the theater we went to. since then I've seen every Trek movie in theaters. I'm glad mom and dad exposed Trek to me. thanks mom and dad.

[maatartemis]

Thanks for putting this all together! Perfect timing as my husband and I have been rewatching all the films, so now I have fun facts to spew as we do. We have trouble finding media we both like, but we both love Star Trek!

[carlkingery]

This video had to take a mountain of data and work it out. You all at Trek Culture deserve a standing ovation on this effort. I as a die hard Trek Fan was fully engrossed in this video. Bravo to Trek Culture!!!

[dieseljester]

Can we all just agree that David Warner and Christopher Plummer simply chewed up the scenery in every bit of screen time that they had?

[dw]

Literally LOL’d at “Sends Sulu for sushi”, as it is so obviously a misdirection

[ratboygenius]

This video presentation is like a whole book. Your research and presentation is top notch. Congrats! I'm not sure I can watch it all in one sitting, but I will keep coming back to it for a long time.

[morganwinn]

I'm a former aircraft engineer on harriers, I was screaming at my tv over the imperial sockets and especially a decent quarter inch ratchet. No toolkit of mine would not have the ratchet. I liked the video and will subscribe. 👍

[brunobillion]

Star trek The Motion Picture is still to this day one of my favourite Star Trek movies

[jaykaramales]

Best 2ish hours I've spent in a long time. Most videos that would cover this material would not have the depth of research and would feel more click-baity. This is the real deal--well done!

[dan]

Jane Wiedlin was the rhythm guitarist in the GoGos, not the lead singer.

[FZVideos]

This 2 hour video only covers the 120 things about the Star Trek The Original Series movies, not counting The Next Generations movies or Kelvin Timeline movies which I still waiting for 20 things I didn't know about Star Trek movies of Kelvin Timeline though it would be more difficult to search many infos and details on these movies compared with TOS & TNG era movies, I appreciate TrekCulture's effort of putting these videos I do enjoyed it

[kefkamadman]

The Wrath of Khan is still my favourite, but The Voyage Home is a close second for me.

[v-squared]

The Enterprise reveal is still my top entry for ship reveals in Sci-Fi. The music, the slow build, it just works so well. Goosebumps everytime. The Enterprise D is now a close second though.

[Arcade-fix]

At a convention around 1987 in NH, Walter was the guest. He explained that Chekov was in the bathroom when Kahn needed to go. When he came out, Kahn said he would remember him.

[berthulf]

There is just something special about TMP that many films lack, even with its flaws, but UC will always be my favourite, because it's the only one that really shows the crew striving to live up to the ethos of starfleet and the federation, of being better and of moving past their bigotry and shortcomings. 1 isn't even really about the crew, 2 is a revenge story, 3 is a treasure hunt, 4 is mostly wacky fun (and my second favourite) and 5 is a hostage story more than anything, but 6 is a story about making yourself better and about actually practicing what you preach.

[yellowrose]

"The movie was bugeted at 400% less than its predecessor". You can't go below *100%* less... You mean "a quarter the budget of its predecessor".