Episode 579: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 198 minutes

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Summary

Sci Fi July with the first entry in the Star Trek film franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). After a decade without a live-action version of Star Trek the crew reunite to embark on a very familiar mission: a Gene Roddenberry special where a god-like creature judges humanity to be lacking.

Our episode features interviews with story writer Alan Dean Foster, associate producer Jon Povill, and actor Walter Koenig.

A.J. Black and Trevor Gumbel join Mike to discuss the unusual path to the big screen the film took as well as how it forges a link between "TOS" and "TNG".

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. The human adventure.
0:49.3	The human adventure is just beginning.
0:57.0	William Shatner.
0:58.9	Take us out.
0:59.8	Is Captain James T. Kirk.
1:03.7	Leonard Nimoy is Mr. Spock.
1:08.0	DeForest Kelly is Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy.
1:11.6	James Duhan is Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott.
1:16.6	George Takeh is Lieutenant Commander Sulu.
1:20.6	Major Barrett is Dr. Christine Chappell.
1:25.6	Walter Koenig is Lieutenant Pavel Chekhov.
1:29.3	Nicholz Nicholz is Lieutenant Commander Uhura.
1:35.3	Stephen Collins is Commander Willard Decker.
1:41.3	Percy's Combata is Lieutenant Eilea. Star Trek, the motion picture.
2:23.6	Gene Roddenberry's production of a Robert Wise film coming this Christmas from Paramount.
2:33.3	Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host Mike White. Join me once again is Mr. A.J. Black.
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