Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
When a mysterious entity appears at the edge of Federation space, Admiral James Tiberius Kirk finds himself recommissioned as commander of the Starship Enterprise. When his former Science Officer, Spock, is summoned from across the cosmos by the creature’s psychic cries, the crew find themselves on a desperate mission to save Earth from a creature that exists beyond human comprehension.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 14th July 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture at The Internet Movie Database.
- The Irish Times announces the looming theatrical release of Michael Flatley’s Blackbird, July 2022.
- David C. Fein talks to io9 to discuss the restoration of The Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, April 2022.
- David C. Fein talks to StarTrek.com about bringing The Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Paramount+, March 2022.
- Lauren Miles at Film Stories reports on the planned theatrical release of directors’ cuts of both Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in the United Kingdom, June 2022.
- Trek Movie reports on the upcoming remastered home media release of The Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, July 2022.
- Robert Vaux at Comic Book Resources reports on the stunt performers and Chippendale’s dancers who appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, February 2022.
- Ryan Britt at SyFy Wire looks back on the grotesque horror of Conspiracy on Star Trek: The Next Generation, September 2019.
- Ree Hines at Today looks back on the “odd-numbered curse” in the larger Star Trek franchise, May 2009.
- Simon Pegg talks to Trek Movie about the “odd-numbered curse” when it came to being cast in the eleventh Star Trek movie, July 2008.
- David Greven contemplates the Bush era politics of Star Trek: Enterprise at eJumpCut, May 2008.
- Rob Wieland at Nerdist looks back on Star Trek: The Animated Series, November 2017.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek considers the aborted film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, April 2018.
- Daniel Rennie at Bold Entrance looks back at Philip Kaufman’s almost involvement with Raiders of the Lost Ark, October 2021.
- Joe Rutland at Outsider looks at the origins of “the Eastwood Rule”, April 2022.
- Nick Ottens at Forgotten Trek looks back on Star Trek: Phase II, July 2007.
- Eric Pesola at Heavy wonders if Star Trek: Phase II would have killed the Star Trek franchise, December 2021.
- Steve McKerrow at The Baltimore Sun reports on the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager at the launch of UPN, January 1995.
- Aljean Harmetz at The New York Times reports on Michael Eisner’s move from Paramount to Disney, October 1984.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek reflects on the very troubled production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, December 2019.
- I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy, 1975.
- I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy, 1995.
- Collecting Trek looks back at the Heineken advertisement that provoked Leonard Nimoy to sue Paramount, February 2019.
- Classic Film and TV Cafe considers Gene Roddenberry’s work on The Questor Tapes, December 2012.
- Sean Ellard at Comic Book Resources looks at how Leonard Nimoy (and Spock) almost didn’t return for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, May 2021.
- Tim Grieving at The Ringer argues for Star Trek: The Motion Picture as a slice of seventies science-fiction, April 2022.
- Doug Trumbull talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his life and career, September 2014.
- Doug Trumbull talks to Trek Movie about how it took a miracle to complete the special effects work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, July 2019.
- Roger Ebert reviews Rooftops for The Chicago Sun Times, March 1989.
- Robert Koehler reviews A Storm in Summer for Variety, January 2000.
- Ronald Bergan at The Guardian looks back on the life and career of Robert Wise, September 2005.
- David Hazard on YouTube offers an supercut of Chekov talking about Russia on Star Trek, September 2008.
- Tim Worstall at Forbes argues that the Federation is a communist society, October 2015.
- Manu Saadia talks to Wired about the economics of Star Trek, May 2016.
- John Orquiola at ScreenRant looks at how Ronald D. Moore mocked his work on Star Trek: First Contact in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, September 2020.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine argues that Star Trek: The Motion Picture really crystalised the idea of the Star Trek universe, April 2022.
- Marc Okrand talks to The Washington Post about developing Klingon as a language, July 2018.
- Marc Okrand talks to StarTrek.com about the secrets of the Klingon language, November 2011.
- Olivia Popp at StarTrek.com discusses the importance of the Klingon language in building empathy, July 2019.
- John Orquiola at ScreenRant looks at how Star Trek: The Next Generation recycled the supporting cast of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, April 2020.
- Terrence McCoy at The Washington Post reports on the sexual offences of Stephen Collins, October 2014.
- Rebecca MacAttee at E! Online looks back at Stephen Collins’ comments about Jessica Biel’s photoshoots, October 2014.
- Brent Spiner talks to Trek Movie about the early offensive episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, March 2012.
- Gates McFadden talks to The Mirror about the sexism present in early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, December 1996.
- Paul B. Strurtevant at The Washington Post argues that the Ferengi are an antisemitic stereotype, August 2018.
- Darren Mooney reviews Let That Be Your Last Battlefield at the m0vie blog, August 2016.
- Keith Phipps looks back at The City on the Edge of Forever at Vox, June 2018.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the psychedelia of Star Trek, October 2020.
- Stephen Benedict Dyson at Salon looks back on Star Trek‘s first failed pilot, September 2016.
- Michael Kmet at Star Trek Fact Check looks back on the recasting of Star Trek following the failed pilot, January 2014.
- The Orlando Sentinel looks back on Gene Roddenberry’s extramarital affairs with both Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols during production of Star Trek, July 1993.
- Mark Farinas at Trek Movie looks back on Gene Roddenberry’s sex comedy Pretty Maids All in a Row, July 2017.
- Ira Steven Behr talks to TrekCore about the creation of Risa and the input of Gene Roddenberry, May 2013.
- Ellen Cheesman-Meyer at Tor.com reflects on the strange experience of reading Gene Roddenberry’s novelisation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, December 2013.
- Noam Shcancer at The Guardian looks at the parentless children of the kibbutz in Israel, February 2011.
- Patrick Stewart reflects that Picard didn’t do enough “shooting and screwing” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, November 2012.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the sexual horror that underpins the Alien franchise, June 2020.
- Mike McMahan talks to Mission Log about how Paramount wouldn’t let him stretch the homage to The Motion Picture to breaking point in Star Trek: Lower Decks, October 2021.
- Richard H. Kline at American Cinematographer looks back on the production and shooting of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, October 2016.
- Ryan Britt at Inverse looks at the Star Trek franchise’s complicated relationship to religion, July 2016.
- Mike Bloom at The Hollywood Reporter considers efforts to integrate religion into Star Trek: Discovery, January 2019.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how Star Trek gave up on the future, May 2022.
- Darren Mooney reviews Strange New Worlds at The Escapist, July 2022.
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