Star Trek -The Motion Picture

It's hard now to think of a time without Star Trek, since it's rebirth 20 or so years ago it's been a constant cultural force, always putting the world to rites and entertaining us in all it's different incarnations. Though there was a wilderness time, after the cancellation of the original series the future looked dark for any more adventures with the Enterprise crew. With the show off the air it looked like fans would have to make do with the constant repeats being show on TV; which is just where the germs of new adventures lay. For the Trek fanbase began to grow thanks to it's constant and popular repeats, as fan demand for more episodes grew Paramount decided to give the fans what they wanted, more Trek.
In 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released and it was as if the show had never gone off the air, the actors slipped effortlessly back into their roles, while the bigger budget helped it make the huge leap from TV to Film. Veteran director Robert Wise was chosen to helm this new adventure and a bold and intelligent script chosen to re-launch the series.

A gigantic entity is discovered floating through space, it's intentions seem hostile as it destroys a group of Klingon vessels and a Federation space station. It's course is plotted as putting it on a direct line with Earth, the only ship in intercept distance is the newly refitted Enterprise. Kirk, now an Admiral, is on hand and given back command of Enterprise, a decision that upsets new Captain Decker, who's just spent months getting the ship ready. With Kirk in charge the crew set off to find out about the entity and stop it from possibly destroying Earth.

This brand new Directors Edition, features several new sequences cut from the film's original release as well as newly created effects work, a pristine new print and a re-mastered soundtrack. All which was over seen by director Robert Wise who now says that this is the version that he wishes was released back in 79.