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Thanks for posting, missed that. But oh am I tired of people kvetching about how great it used to be, whatever the "it" is. People have been doing that since, well, Hesiod!
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FWIW, I just dashed off this little epistle to the paper:
To the Editor:
If Vinciguerra knew how many fans dearly love the "bloated and boring" STAR TREK - THE MOTION PCTURE, he might be very surprised -- as I was, to hear from them when I wrote about the film. For all the criticism it's endured since 1979, ("Star Trek - The Motionless Picture"), Robert Wise's production embodied all the heart and soul Vinciguerra rightly finds deplorably absent in the recent reboots. It's that spirit, derived from Roddenberry' original TV series, that continues to move many viewers, and which, thanks to its box office success, was responsible for all the Star Trek movies and series which followed and continue to flourish -- for better or worse.
Preston Neal Jones
(Author, "Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek - The Motion Picture")
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Nicely done, Preston. I've never stopped loving STTMP.
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Grecchus, where were you when I was writing my book?! That would have been a very nifty thing to point out, but I never thought of it. (I wonder if Mr. Wise ever did.)
FWIW, it's not too late for you to write your own letter to the Times. Go for it!
(Meanwhile, from now on, I'm going to share your thought whenever I'm speaking in public about the film.)
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For me, the original series is the only Star Trek.
That is all.
I agree, but the 6 original cast movies (especially the first one) I say qualify for me, but that's it.
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Couldn't have said it better, Preston.
In fact, it was all that over-worship of Wrath of Khan that led trek-dom to the point we're at now, where every new Star Trek movie is a half-baked. not-terribly-well thought out remake of Wrath of Khan.
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You rarely start a thread, PNJ!
(Also, you have 3 names, so that makes this An Event!  )
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For me, the original series is the only Star Trek.
That is all.
I agree, but the 6 original cast movies (especially the first one) I say qualify for me, but that's it.
Yeah, but Roddenberry had little to do with TMP, when all was said and done, and almost nothing to do with the remaining films. But he did have a direct hand in more of TNG than even TOS. So...?
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