STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE making-of featurette

I've always thought that 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a very underrated film. While a lot of people apparently find it sort of dull, I enjoy the eerie, Kubrick-like stillness of it, the way we take our time building up to the big moments and then linger on them when we get there.

This clip features a 10-minute featurette about the making of the film. If you're wondering why you're hearing the theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's because the TV series actually recycled the theme from the film. The show also re-used some of the movie's sets and props and borrowed its redesign of the Klingons as guys with turtleshell foreheads, and the Next Generation characters of Riker and Troi were also basically recycled from the film's Willard Decker and Ilia! Love it or hate, but without The Motion Picture, there would've been no Next Generation. So eat it, ST:TMP haters!

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