Star Trek: The Motion Picture Page #3

Synopsis: The Federation calls on Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise to contain an immense nimbused object that's on a crash course with Earth. After investigating, the crew discovers that the alien cloud harbors artificial intelligence with an ominous primary directive. Crisis strikes when a probe dispatched by the energy cloud attacks the crew, abducting navigator Lt. Ilia (Persis Khambatta). An android look-alike containing her memories shows up soon after.
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
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Year:
1979
132 min
1,038 Views


BRANCH:

That's within Klingon boundaries.

Who are they fighting?

LIEUTENANT:

Unknown, sir.

A violent EXPLOSION inside the Klingon bridge -- Klingon

Captain's body is thrown violently against the bulkhead.

TECHNICIAN:

I have an exterior visual!

25 CLOSE ON VIEWER (O) 25

showing EXTERIOR of the Klingon vessel: a final,

frightening WHIPLASH ENERGY BOLT strikes it -- then

the same awesome IMPLOSION INTO FIREBALL.

26 WIDER ANGLE - PERSONNEL AND VIEWER (O) 26

The Starfleet station onlookers react to the utter

annihilation of the huge cruiser. And now, past where

the cruiser just disappeared -- the mysterious LUMINES-

CENCE approaching in distance. Technician hits a

switch, magnifying the strange CLOUD.

LIEUTENANT:

We've plotted a course on that

cloud, Commander: it will pass

into Federation Space fairly

close to us.

BRANCH:

Heading?

27 CLOSE ON THE MAIN MONITOR STATION (O) 27

as its focal point shifts to the huge elliptically-

shaped LUMINESCENCE racing across the sky. MUSIC

(V'GER THEME) COMMENCES in a low, unresolved CHORD

that remains in the background through the remainder

of this scene, and the beginning of the next one.

LIEUTENANT'S VOICE

Sir, it's on a precise heading

for Earth.

Ominously now the LUMINESCENCE increases in size, and

begins to fill the viewer. HOLD A MOMENT, and then:

28 EXT. SURFACE OF PLANET VULCAN - DAY (M) 28

with the CAMERA MOVING THROUGH masses of thick, steamy

vaporous clouds, swirling about, rising boilingly up

from some unseen, underground source. The CAMERA

CONTINUES MOVING through clouds.

And then... the Vulcan landscape. Harsh, strange

angular peaks and rock formations -- the barren, legend-

ary mountain home of Vulcan Masters.

29 EXT. VULCAN LEDGE - SPOCK ( M & F.P.) 29

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Harold Livingston

Harold Livingston is an American novelist and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Before his career as a writer, Harold was a fighter pilot. more…

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