How Star Trek: The Motion Picture flirted with disaster only to become a surprise smash

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As ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ celebrates its 40th anniversary, Ed Power looks back on how the big screen adaptation weathered on-set issues to become a record-breaking hit

had struggled for years to revitalise his franchise. And in the face of Roddenberry’s lobbying, Paramount eventually relented, with Diller suggesting a new series, to be titledLater, it was decided to bump this up to a one-off movie with a low-ball budget of around $3m . Then Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader unleashed their death-ray upon cinema.woke them up to the fact that these things I’d been telling them for a number of years were true,” observed Roddenberry.

 

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Gene roddenberry was demoted after this movie he wanted it to be a serious A space odyssey style movie but they changed tact for ST2

What a smasher!

What a smasher!

Persis khambatta was the only good thing about that movie. ...not cos of her acting though

What a smasher!’

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