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How The Motion Picture Changed Star Trek - Ep 126

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Star Trek The Motion Picture not only marked the return of Trek, but it also changed The Star Trek universe in multiple ways. In fact, it would never be the same again.

In some ways those changes were good and in some ways they caused problems. Consider the conundrum that the new Klingon foreheads represented!

But the film took the universe in a completely new direction. The Animated Series was very much a continuation of The Original Series. Meanwhile, Phase II was to be an evolution of the 60s show. But The Motion Picture revolutionized what Star Trek was so it could compete with other science fiction franchises such as Star Wars.

The impact of those changes was felt in every version of Star Trek that followed in the 1980s, ‘90s and early 2000s.

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Star Trek The Motion Picture not only marked the return of Trek, but it also changed The Star Trek universe in multiple ways. In fact, it would never be the same again.

In some ways those changes were good and in some ways they caused problems. Consider the conundrum that the new Klingon foreheads represented!

But the film took the universe in a completely new direction. The Animated Series was very much a continuation of The Original Series. Meanwhile, Phase II was to be an evolution of the 60s show. But The Motion Picture revolutionized what Star Trek was so it could compete with other science fiction franchises such as Star Wars.

The impact of those changes was felt in every version of Star Trek that followed in the 1980s, ‘90s and early 2000s.

  continue reading

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