10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The so-called "smartest" Star Trek movie is still full of dumb.

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[johnedwards]

My dad took me and my brother to see this film after it opened in December 1979. We were big Trek fans and it was a thrill to see the cast reunited for a major movie.

[Nebagram]

Surprised you missed out McCoy being mocked for not wanting to use the transporter when it literally barbecued Sunak a few minutes earlier.

[ThatsGuy]

Even as a child seeing this movie, knowing the Klingons were not idiots because watching Star Trek was part of how I was raised, I asked my dad why they would just shoot at a cloud as big as our solar system. That's one of the first times he told me to stop over-analyzing things, shut up, and just watch it. It's been decades and I'm an old man now, but I feel like child me just got redeemed here.

[chrisdavis]

I distinctly remember seeing this in the theater as a 15 year old and thinking "Wait, a planet of super-smart robots that couldn't figure out how to remove a bit of grime?"

[dolari]

In an earlier revision of ST:TMP the V'Ger message is actually decoded. In the August 9th revision (1) Spock does NOT smash the Science Console when Ilia is kidnapped. (2) The ship is held for 12 hours alongside VGer after Ilia is taken away and before being pulled into the ship (3) In the 12 hours, Spock has decoded the message: V'Ger (revealing the name) is asking for the the Enterprise's place of origin and intentions. (4) Spock programs the computer to talk with V'Ger, and actually communicate directly with it where they find out that it's headed for Earth, the home of the creator. (5) Suddenly the Enterprise computer begins communicating directly with V'Ger without crew's prompting, causing Spock to smash the science console. The earlier May 17th draft goes a little further having Spock realize V'Ger is a living machine when it refers to itself as "I" and "My." By October 2nd, the scene is no longers in the script.

[DavidMichaelKalman]

You missed the actual dumbest thing. Two people get sploded in the transporter, and seemingly moments later McCoy beams in while the crew banters about his well-known distrust of the technology.

[sjTHEfirst]

But really, I remember sitting in the theater on opening night and was just psyched that Star Trek was back and on the big screen. Nothing else mattered. I didn’t sit there making jokes like MST3K, this was Star Trek, and it was back!

[MinifigJez]

1:22 “That’s peanuts to space”
A superbly executed tribute to “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

[Concreteowl]

Kirk has a thruster pack. He uses it to direct Spock's limp and unconscious body back into the ship. He doesn't follow Spock because he disagrees with the risk Spock is taking. Spock doesn't expect to return from his voyage into Vger. That's why he is narrating his findings so the log launched from his suit would be recovered by the ship.

[clairelouise]

I don't care how many plot holes it has - I love this film . Why is it necessary to pick things apart. All film/tv can be looked at this way, or they can just be enjoyed as a bit of escapism. I, for one, will continue to watch this film with affection.

[christopherheckman]

(10) Uh, we're talking about Voyager SIX here ... which presumably was faster than Voyagers 1 and 2, so it could have gone further than 17.2 billion kilometers.

(7) Persis Khambatta was a former Miss India (although she usually has hair).

(1) 14:22 "We can't repel firepower of that magnitude!" (oops, wrong series)

And you forgot ... those **** uniforms.

[MalachiBurke]

Ilea's sensors are localized to her skin and private areas. These need to be exposed for full probe readings. Plus, stripper heels magnify the accuracy. Roddenberry and Berman told me so

[robert_bbiii]

My favorite stupid moment is a small one. At one point McCoy walks on to the bridge, looks around, and leaves. No one says anything to him, he doesn't say anything, he wasn't called there. Just really there to show McCoy still exisits.

[HermanVonPetri]

Not a topic of the video, but it occurs to me that if they had just worn black or charcoal trousers that the uniforms would look pretty good. Kirk's contrasting gray and white admiral's uniform is actually really nice. Just no one piece jumpsuits in the future, please.

[speedyretreat]

Firstly, I want to make it clear I know Brie didn't write the article, so none of what I'm about to say has any focus on her. This is just such a negative, pessimistic article. Imagine going through an entire movie and just writing down things that you find to be "dumb", and the writer did this at least 6 times for WhatCulture. If you compare this to let's say, Sean Ferrick's Ups and Downs series, he confronts some of the downs with still a sense of positivity and optimism which I feel is the way Trek is meant to be taken. I really subscribed to Trek Culture only because of Sean and his enthusiasm for Star Trek, and since then have discovered some other great presenters here, but this kind of stuff really just makes me feel like this is just one long recorded Reddit thread. Maybe it's just me.

[Derman]

Best thing about the motion picture is that it paved the way for the Wrath of Khan

[AndrewDRed]

This movie bored my arse off, but absolute mad love and respect to anyone who counts this one as a favourite.

[anothersquid]

Yes, it is quite normal for people to meet on a posting early in their career, then not see each other until they're posted to the same base/ship/squadron at some distant future time.

[spectresound]

So no one is going to consider that with McCoy being reinstated as CMO that he wouldn't go through and do a quick review of personnel and at least gander at the new people's file?

[fernandogarajalde]

The final edit (by the director) occurred just hours before the release of the film the next day. The first prints were rushed to theaters by express air freight at a major cost to the studio. I was lucky to find a small theater in Manhattan that still had first-day tickets at 12 noon.