Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Theatrical release poster
by Bob Peak |
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| Directed by | Robert Wise |
| Produced by | Gene Roddenberry |
| Screenplay by | Harold Livingston |
| Story by | Alan Dean Foster |
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Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Richard H. Kline |
| Edited by | Todd C. Ramsay |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $46 million |
| Box office | $139 million |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first Star Trek film and stars the cast of the original 1966–1969 Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) resumes command of his previous starship—the recently refitted USS Enterprise—to lead it on a mission to save the planet and determine V'Ger's origins.
When the original television series was cancelled in 1969, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry lobbied Paramount to continue the franchise through a film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to begin work on a feature film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, but the attempts did not satisfy Paramount, so the studio scrapped the project in 1977. Paramount instead planned on returning the franchise to its roots with a new television series, Star Trek: Phase II. The box office success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind convinced Paramount that science fiction films other than Star Wars could do well at the box office, so the studio cancelled production of Phase II and resumed its attempts at making a Star Trek film. In 1978, Paramount assembled the largest press conference held at the studio since the 1950s to announce that double Academy Award–winning director Robert Wise would direct a $15 million film adaptation of the television series.
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