Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster

Director: Robert Wise

Release: December 8, 1979

Tagline(s): Tags

Producer: Gene Roddenberry

Stars/Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Nichell Nichols

Music by: Jerry Goldsmith

Production Company: Paramount Pictures

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller

ID: tt0079945

Rating: G

Runtime: 143 minutes

Based On: Based on Star Trek: The Original Series.

Synopsis: When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek The Motion Picture

Quotes and Lines

Captain James T. Kirk: Well, for a man who swore he’d never return to the Starfleet…
Dr. McCoy: Just a moment, Captain, sir. I’ll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little-known, seldom-used “reserve activation clause.” In simpler language, Captain, they DRAFTED me!
Captain James T. Kirk: They didn’t.
Dr. McCoy: This was your idea. This was your idea, wasn’t it?
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, there’s a… thing… out there.
Dr. McCoy: Why is any object we don’t understand always called “a thing”?

Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.: Well Jim… I hear Chapel’s an M.D. now. Well I’m gonna need a top nurse… not a doctor who’ll argue every little diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay, too! I know engineers, they LOVE to change things.

Captain James T. Kirk: Well, Bones. Do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?
Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.: They do not. It’s like working in a damn computer center.

Commander Spock: Each of us… at some time in our lives, turns to someone – a father, a brother, a God… and asks…”Why am I here? What was I meant to be?”

Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.: Spock, this “child” is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
Commander Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us… it does not know what.

Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.: Spock, you haven’t changed a bit. You’re just as warm and sociable as ever.
Commander Spock: Nor have you, doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.

Lt. Pavel Chekov: No casualties reported, Doctor.
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.: Wrong, Mr. Chekov. There are casualties: my wits!

Captain James T. Kirk: Evaluation, Mr. Spock.
Spock: Fascinating.