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Published Jul 6, 2022

Fully Restored Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture Arrives on 4K Ultra HD

The original six big-screen adventures also arrive on 4K Ultra HD September 6 in time for Star Trek Day.

The case for the Star Trek: The Motion Pictures Director's Edition 4K Ultra HD set.

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Set a course for the final frontier as the newly restored Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition arrives September 6, 2022 on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ with a bonus Blu-ray Disc™ filled with new and legacy special features from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film will also be released in a Limited-Edition Collector’s Set entitled “The Complete Adventure,” which includes the new Director’s Edition, the theatrical cut, and a special longer cut all on 4K Ultra HD along with special features on Blu-ray. In addition, Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection will arrive on September 6 with all six big-screen adventures featuring the original series crew on 4K Ultra HD.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition Remastered Trailer

Originally released in 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture became the fourth highest grossing movie of the year and earned three Academy Award® nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Music, Original Score. The film successfully launched the Star Trek franchise beyond the original television series, despite having been rushed to theaters with incomplete special effects and forced editing choices.

In 2001, director Robert Wise revisited the film to refine the edit and enhance the visual effects. His updated vision was released on DVD in standard definition and embraced by fans but has never been available in higher definition until now.  Meticulously assembled and restored by producer David C. Fein with post-production supervisor Mike Matessino, both of whom originally collaborated with Wise, the film has been prepared for presentation in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ high dynamic range (HDR) and a new powerful and immersive Dolby Atmos® soundtrack. Fein and Matessino assembled a team of visual effects experts, led by returning visual effects supervisor Daren R. Dochterman, and utilized the extensive resources in the Paramount Archives to recreate the effects not just in HD, but in Ultra HD. After more than six months of painstaking work, the updated movie looks and sounds better than ever while staying true to Wise’s original intention.

The Enterprise prepares to leave space dock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

“ The Director’s Edition on 4k Ultra HD delivers an experience that is far more intimate, engaging, and powerful thanks to the hard work of everyone involved,” said Fein.  “In building The Complete Adventure, we appreciated that many people who were first introduced to the film through the full frame release of the ‘Special Longer Version’ have missed it.  I’m excited that it will now be available for the first time in widescreen 4k Ultra HD. After so many years, it’s deeply rewarding to finally deliver Robert Wise’s definitive Director’s Edition for fans to enjoy at home.”

Following is an overview of the new product offerings:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition 4K Ultra HD

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition

The newly restored, definitive version of the first big-screen adventure is presented in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ and HDR-10, as well as Dolby Atmos®.  Also includes access to a Digital copy of the film and the following new and legacy bonus content:

Ultra HD Disc bonus features:

  • Audio Commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman—NEW!
  • Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins?
  • Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda?

Blu-ray Disc™ bonus features:

  • The Human Adventure —An all-new 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life—NEW!
  • Preparing the Future – How the remastering began
  • A Wise Choice – The storied history of Robert Wise
  • Refitting the Enterprise – How the Enterprise design shaped future federation starships
  • Sounding Off – Exploring new dimensions of sound in Dolby Atmos
  • V’ger - The conception and restoration of an iconic alien antagonist
  • Return to Tomorrow – Reaching an already high bar with new CGI effects
  • A Grand Theme – Behind the iconic, influential music score that shaped the franchise’s future
  • The Grand Vision – The legacy and evolving reputation of this classic movie
  • Deleted Scenes — NEW!
  • Effects Tests — NEW!
  • Costume Tests — NEW!
  • Computer Display Graphics — NEW!
  • Additional legacy bonus content

Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition—The Complete Adventure 4K Ultra HD

Kirk holds Spock's hand in sickbay, as McCoy watches from behind him.

This Limited-Edition Collector’s Set includes all of the above, plus an additional 4K Ultra HD disc containing:

  • The Theatrical Cut
  • The first-ever widescreen presentation of the Special Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , originally created for broadcast television in 1983

The set is presented in deluxe packaging along with exclusive collectibles, including reproductions of original promotional material, a booklet with behind-the-scenes images, stickers, and more.

Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection

The 4K Ultra HD cover for Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition

This comprehensive 15-disc collection includes the first six big-screen adventures featuring the original series crew in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and HDR-10. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition also includes Dolby Atmos).  Both Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country are making their 4K Ultra HD debuts.  The set also includes access to Digital copies of each of the six films, as well as hours of new and legacy bonus content.  Below is a breakdown of disc contents:

  • Additional Blu-ray with bonus content
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical Cut) – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
  • Includes Director’s Cut
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier – Ultra HD & Blu-ray

The cover for the 4K Ultra HD edition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

All six of the feature films listed above will also be available individually on 4K Ultra HD or Blu-ray.

In addition, in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan will return to select theaters on September 4th, 5th and 8th. Tickets for this special engagement presented by Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies, and Paramount Pictures can be purchased at www.fathomevents.com or at participating theater box offices.

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Comparing The Three Versions of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Is there a definitive version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture at last? We compared all the different versions of this misunderstood movie to find out.

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The Starship Enterprise in Star Trek; The Motion Picture

Some 44 years after it went into production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is finally complete.

We don’t say that frivolously. Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of Hollywood’s most famous “unfinished” films. Rushing to meet a December 7, 1979 release date, with many of the visual effects being completed right up until the last possible minute by Douglas Trumbull (who had replaced the previous VFX supervisor), director Robert Wise ( The Day the Earth Stood Still , The Sound of Music ) pretty much just stopped working on the film, carrying the first available print on a plane to the movie’s Washington D.C. premiere.

The complicated story of how ST: TMP – the first major motion picture based on an existing TV series — was developed, written, filmed, and released is a long, winding one that has been told before. It’s also well-known that the original theatrical version of the film – the one that Wise had to deliver finished or not – was not well-received by either fans or critics, although it became a sizable box office success.

Yet Star Trek: The Motion Picture steadily grew in stature over the years, gradually beginning to hold its own with fans even as later favorites like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ascended to the top of the franchise.

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With fans and even critics constantly reappraising the original film, Paramount Pictures – with the encouragement of two members of Robert Wise’s production company, David C. Fein and Michael Matessino – allowed Wise and his team to revisit the movie in 2001, reconstructing it to finally adhere more closely to Wise’s original vision.

The release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition in November 2001 on home video (DVD and VHS) confirmed for many fans that there was a far better film after all hidden inside the “rough cut” (Wise’s own words) released in 1979. Scenes were excised or trimmed, a few were reinstated, and most importantly, the visuals were spruced up with the help of CGI. The legendary Wise, who passed away four years later in 2005, got the chance to finish the movie the way he wanted.

But the story wasn’t over yet.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Reborn

Earlier this year, Paramount+ premiered a 4K Ultra HD (high definition) version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition . Prepared over the course of six months by Fein, Matessino, and a visual effects team with access to Paramount’s archives, this iteration of ST: TMP stayed true to the vision established by Wise for The Director’s Edition in 2001, while doing a further, extensive, HD restoration and upgrade of the entire film.

Now the Ultra HD Director’s Edition , along with 4K Ultra HD versions of the original theatrical cut and the “Special Longer Version” that was created for broadcast television in 1983, are available in a newly released set called The Complete Adventure , which gives us a definitive document of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in all three versions, looking perhaps the best they’ll ever look ( The Director’s Edition is also available on its own or as part of a set containing Ultra HD upgrades of all six films starring the original Trek cast).

Having seen the film in its original theatrical release, then on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, we were always put off by the seeming drabness of the image and the colors. To our eyes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – despite the occasionally awe-inspiring visuals it did manage to pull off against all odds – never seemed to pop off any screen or medium we watched it on.

That problem is now solved, and overpoweringly so: the film in 4K Ultra HD looks absolutely magnificent, as if we’re truly seeing the film for the first time.

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Yes, many of the VFX have been digitally enhanced or even freshly recreated, but they’re integrated almost seamlessly into the original aesthetic of the film, while many of the rough spots in the original release have been repaired or replaced. Now the 4K image really does leap off the screen in amazing color and detail. To watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture in this way is to watch a 44-year-old science fiction movie that looks in many ways like it was made last year.

And now that all three versions of the movie are here in this beautiful, pristine form, which one holds up the best and do they differ?

The Original Theatrical Cut

It may look better than it ever has, but the original theatrical cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture still has all the issues it had when it first came out. It’s slow-moving to the point of being inert, it spends way too much time on endless visuals (the first sight of the refurbished Enterprise , the lengthy flyover of the massive V’Ger spacecraft – heck, even Spock’s neck-pinch of some poor slob guarding an airlock takes way too long), and it leaves certain plot information and character motivations ambiguous at best and absent at worst.

What ST: TMP does retain is a sense of grandeur, and occasionally a sense of wonder, that often marked the best of the original series and has been sadly lacking in so much filmed science fiction ever since, including later Trek movies and TV series.

So many of the later movies – especially the J.J. Abrams-conceived Kelvin trilogy , but some of the classic and Next Generation films have the same problem – revolve around fairly simple bad guy/revenge motifs.

The original series had its share of those simple action-adventure episodes, but so much more of it was dedicated to great ideas – whether it be truly alien encounters, mirror universes, or moral quandaries posed by the Enterprise sticking its saucer in a new planet’s business.

And yes, even though Star Trek: The Motion Picture is in some ways a rewrite of the original series episode “The Changeling,” it’s much more expansive and even cosmic in its implications. While several later Trek films are superior in many ways, few of them have matched ST: TMP in its ambitions and pure science fiction concepts.

The acting is inconsistent, to say the least, although all our old favorites each have a memorable moment or two, and the glacial pacing really is at odds with the imagination glimpsed in the storyline and the visuals. In many ways, the theatrical cut remains a slog, but it’s also a one-of-a-kind Trek movie.

The ‘Special Longer Version’

Star Trek: The Motion Picture premiered on American network television – ABC, to be exact – on February 20, 1983. Not only was this the first TV showing of the movie, but it also introduced a different cut of the film that came to be known as the “Special Longer Version.” Running for two hours and 24 minutes (without commercials), as opposed to the theatrical cut’s two hours and 12 minutes, the “SLV” essentially incorporated a number of scenes that were left unfinished and kept out of the picture by director Robert Wise in 1979 – who apparently did not approve of this version.

A lot of the scenes that were added back into the movie for the “SLV” were and are clearly extraneous, although in some cases amusing to watch.

There are a couple of exchanges between Sulu (George Takei) and the Deltan navigator Ilia (Persis Khambatta) – whose species is apparently quite sexually attractive and active – that are possibly meant to suggest Sulu is coming under her spell, although they were jettisoned to focus on Ilia and Decker’s (Stephen Collins) relationship (there is also more of that present in this cut).

Other sequences – like a moment in which Spock (Leonard Nimoy) weeps for V’Ger and a quick scene of Ilia helping to relieve Chekov’s (Walter Koenig) pain after he is injured – actually made it into the Director’s Cut and work well there as improved character moments.

Most infamously, the original release of the “SLV” contained a literally unfinished shot of Kirk (William Shatner) leaving the Enterprise airlock in a spacesuit to pursue Spock as the Vulcan himself spacewalks deeper into V’Ger’s interior. When the “SLV” was first shown, parts of the soundstage around the airlock set were still visible, as a result of the effects for the scene never being completed (the new 4K Ultra HD version of the “SLV” rectifies that, although the incomplete version is provided as a bonus feature).

Importantly, the new version of the “SLV” has restored it to its theatrical matting – the movie was cropped to the old TV screen ratio of 1.33: 1 for broadcast (and for several subsequent home video releases), turning Wise’s widescreen compositions into a nightmare of forced zooms and pan-and-scanning. At least now this version of the film is restored to its proper ratio.

That said, the “Special Longer Version” is in many ways the worst version of the film. While it’s always interesting for completists to see footage left out of a theatrical movie, this iteration simply pastes all that material back into the film – ostensibly to fill a three-hour “network movie premiere” slot, back in the day when such things mattered – without any consideration of whether it should be there. If the pacing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture has always been a bone of contention for you, the “SLV” doubles down on that.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock, William Shatner as Kirk, and DeForest Kelley as McCoy in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The Director’s Edition

Ironically enough, the Robert Wise-supervised “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture runs for two hours and 16 minutes – four minutes longer than the theatrical release. It also includes some of the scenes Wise left out initially, which surfaced in the interim in the TV version of the movie (a detailed list of alterations and additions can be found here ).

But while it still suffers from pacing issues, they’re less of a detriment. The Director’s Edition still moves slowly, but doesn’t feel like it drags, and there’s more of a stateliness to it that is befitting the movie’s larger themes – which are also given more clarity in this version.

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Perhaps the most important edition in that sense is the scene in which Spock weeps for V’Ger – a scene that makes it much clearer what V’Ger is seeking as it returns to Earth, and why its quest has reached a potentially catastrophic dead end.

More importantly, the scene also brings Spock’s own character arc in the film into much better focus – he realizes that his desire to purge all remaining emotion from his own life (the kolinahr ritual) could lead him to the same cold, empty existence that V’Ger now faces, which he firmly rejects.

Also retained is Ilia’s healing of Chekov, adding a little more nuance to what is mostly a blank slate of a character, as well as some brief interactions between the supporting crew members.

What is left out are, most notably, the full-length travelogues along V’Ger’s exterior and interior (although we do get a neat shot of the entire V’Ger vessel emerging from its cloud above Earth). The scenes are still there, but this material – and a number of other visuals – is trimmed and sharpened to give the movie a little more forward motion. Along with that, so many subtle visual and audio touches have been added – whether it’s better matte or CG backgrounds or original sounds from the TV series – to create more ambiance and an overall more fulfilling cinematic Trek experience.

When Wise and his team took the movie back into the shop in 2001, they overhauled the visuals and the sound mix with the best available technology at the time – yet the limitations back then in terms of resolution meant that the Director’s Edition was only available on DVD for the next 20 years. With the new upgrade, all the visual and sonic enhancements (plus new ones) have been rendered so that they can now be seen in 4K Ultra HD – thus giving Star Trek: The Motion Picture the most up-to-date restoration possible.

The result is an often eye-popping science fiction spectacle that looks fresher and better than ever before. As rushed as the original production was, it’s a tribute to Wise, Trumbull, and the team that completed the film in 1979 that so much of their work still holds up and was able to mesh so well with the enhancements of both 2001 and 2021.

But just as importantly, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is now about as close as it will ever come to being the visionary sci-fi epic that it was first conceived as. The new version of The Director’s Edition retains all the narrative revisions that Wise made more than two decades ago, while adding the visual grandeur that such a cerebral story needed in the first place. Yes, there are still flaws in the film, and it may never replace, say, The Wrath of Khan at the top of Trek movie rankings, but more than four decades after it first came out, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is now finished.

This film’s journey is at last complete, but the human adventure is still just beginning.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition – The Complete Adventure is out now on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director's Edition The Complete Adventure- 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Boldly going where no television series had gone before, Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition allowed the late Robert Wise the opportunity to properly finish and edit the film he always envisioned. Now with The Complete Adventure limited edition collector’s set, fans of the first Star Trek cinematic adventure can complete their own five-year mission to explore all three cuts of the film among hours of exciting new and archival bonus features. The new restoration of the Director’s Edition is truly an exciting marvel with an incredible Dolby Vision transfer and Atmos audio mix. The Theatrical Cut and Longer Version are included in 4K Dolby Vision HDR with nearly identical video transfers. With the deluxe packaging, swag items, and all three cuts - this set really is For Fans Only who want to spend that premium price tag and enjoy everything this film has to offer. 

Read our single title Star Trek 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Reviews: Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

star trek motion picture 4k complete adventure

The U.S.S. Enterprise boldly debuted on the big screen with the cast of the original Star Trek series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan.  Meticulously restored and remastered, with enhanced visual effects and state-of-the-art sound, this definitive vision of director Robert Wise has been optimized for a new generation of fans. When an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Admiral James T. Kirk (Shatner) returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command and confront an alien spacecraft of enormous power heading toward Earth.

The newly restored, definitive version of the first big-screen adventure is presented in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ and HDR-10, as well as Dolby Atmos®.  Also includes access to a Digital copy of the film and the following new and legacy bonus content:

Ultra HD Disc bonus features

  • Audio Commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman—NEW!
  • Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins?
  • Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda?

Blu-ray Disc ™  bonus features

  • The Human Adventure—An all-new 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life—NEW!
  • Preparing the Future – How the remastering began
  • A Wise Choice – The storied history of Robert Wise
  • Refitting the Enterprise – How the Enterprise design shaped future federation starships
  • Sounding Off – Exploring new dimensions of sound in Dolby Atmos
  • V’ger - The conception and restoration of an iconic alien antagonist
  • Return to Tomorrow – Reaching an already high bar with new CGI effects
  • A Grand Theme – Behind the iconic, influential music score that shaped the franchise’s future
  • The Grand Vision – The legacy and evolving reputation of this classic movie
  • Deleted Scenes—NEW!
  • Effects Tests—NEW!
  • Costume Tests—NEW!
  • Computer Display Graphics—NEW!
  • Additional legacy bonus content

This Limited-Edition Collector’s Set includes all of the above, plus an additional 4K Ultra HD disc containing:

  • The Theatrical Cut
  • The first-ever widescreen presentation of the Special Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, originally created for broadcast television in 1983 

The set is presented in deluxe packaging along with exclusive collectibles, including reproductions of original promotional material, a booklet with behind-the-scenes images, stickers, and more.

Storyline: Our Reviewer's Take

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition: The Complete Adventure is a genuine love letter to fans of the film. Fans can now pour over every frame of each vision and meticulously catalog the minute but interesting differences from one cut to the next. That’s a Herculean task and too much for one review to properly and thoroughly catalog, so I’ll focus this area on my thoughts on each version.

For disc one of this set we have the newly restored and reconstructed Director’s Edition that originally graced the 2001 DVD sets. The thing to keep in mind as you look at each version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is that the film is very much the same from one version to the next. Little dialog changes, alternate ADR, different takes, a longer run time, and a different pace are the distinguishing marks. Not to mention the music cues from Jerry Goldsmith's score! Running at 2:16:43, the casual fan probably won’t notice these changes, but for the die-hard fans, it's easy to pick up the different sensibilities at play. As a whole, I like the Director’s Edition best of all the cuts. Aside from the visual effects changes and the alternate scenes, there’s not a huge difference here, but it’s how the film feels. Even running longer than the Theatrical Cut, it strikes a balance with the Longer Version and keeps the film tighter and more focused while taking the time to revel in its grand ambitions and visuals. Even the opening overture and credits are more interesting! And no - contrary to rumor for this newly restored and reconstructed version they did not replace Stephen Collins with Christopher Plummer… maybe next time.

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The 1983 Special Longer Version that appeared on Television and home Video runs at 2:24:34 and is certainly interesting but feels very unfinished. This cut feels like a polished rough cut. Not quite an assembly cut where they string every shot together and it lasts an eternity before they start making necessary trims and edits. There is a structure to this cut, but it also raises and leaves hanging a number of sexual themes involving Persis Khambatta’s Ilia and her relationship with not only Stephen Collins’ Decker but other members of the crew. While certainly interesting, they’re ultimately redundant since they’re dropped so quickly as Decker is and always was her main romantic interest. With that, this is essentially the version I grew up with. We had the VHS of this cut and I think it’s why I always thought this movie was slow and boring. It takes much longer to get to where it needs to go with dialog exchanges leaving plenty of long fart pauses before someone speaks again to finish the point of the scene. On top of that, there were the unfinished visual effects - namely Kirk’s spacewalk where you could see the soundstage behind him. That visual effect snafu has been fixed for this 4K release but otherwise remains unaltered. It’s interesting to see what they had to work with but there’s good reason a lot of these long takes and additional scenes didn’t even make it to the Director’s Edition.

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Then we have the original Theatrical Cut that runs at 2:11:57. The shortest version of the film, it’s certainly leaner and to the point, but I’ve always felt there was something lacking about this cut. Since I grew up with the Special Longer Version, I didn’t discover this cut until the first DVD release over twenty years ago. It was jarring to anticipate a scene or dialog exchange and not see it. I generally think this is a very good version of the movie, but I can also understand why Robert Wise would want to make some fixes here and there. With its faster pace, I feel like this cut short-changes a lot of the character nuances. The Decker and Kirk and Ilia and Decker dynamic feel very choppy whereas the Special Longer Version almost overcomplicates things but the Director’s Edition smooths everything out. Maybe not as refined and a little too quick to cut, but the Theatrical Cut is still very good - arguably better than the overlong Special Longer version. But with the alternate scenes and dialog, I tip my hat to the Director’s Edition because it just feels more complete.

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I’ve heard it questioned why Paramount and those involved spent so much time on a movie that bombed at the box office. Well - it didn’t bomb. Technically for its time, it was the most expensive movie ever made, but it was also saddled with the budget deficits of the new television series development before that was shifted to becoming a feature film. This movie did gangbusters worldwide easily recouping its losses. But it didn’t make Star Wars dollars and that’s where I think some people misconstrued this film as a flop. It made enough money to keep the franchise alive long enough to give the next set of filmmakers proper development time for a leaner, meaner, and more successful action-packed sequel The Wrath of Khan . 

Vital Disc Stats: The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition: The Complete Adventure comes home to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in a deluxe limited edition three-disc collector’s set. You pick up all three versions of the film on two 4K discs with a Blu-ray reserved for the extensive bonus features package and a digital copy of the Director’s Edition. The 4K discs are BD-100 discs with a BD-50 for the bonus features. The discs are housed in a large bookcase, the discs slide into their respective sleeves but thankfully are well situated and easy to remove and return, unlike other book-style packages. Resting opposite the discs is the swag pocket. Here you’ll find the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Archives booklet containing a variety of production photos and concept artwork. Four reproduction lobby cards, a mini poster, four mini bumper stickers, and a sheet of stickers. 

The Director’s Edition gets its own 4K disc with the Theatrical Cut and the Longer Version sharing a 4K Disc. The Theatrical/Longer Version disc loads to a static image main menu allowing you to choose which version you want to look at. From there you get version-unique bonus features. The bulk of the bonus features is offered up on the standard Blu-ray bonus disc. There is not a version of this film in 1080p with this set. The only set released in the U.S. that also includes a 1080p Blu-ray of  The Motion Picture is the  6-Movie Collection

NOTE: All images are sourced from a standard Blu-ray disc. When we can we'll circle back to replace these images with 4K sourced images and or a demo video if possible.  

Video Review

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[From our Director's Edition - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review]

"Of all the films of this franchise to hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, the Director’s Edition received the most love and attention. In order for Robert Wise’s cut to come to the format, it required a complete ground-up restoration and reconstruction from the original 35mm negative elements as well as the original large format visual effects elements and the results are simply extraordinary. From small details in facial features and makeup to the incredible models used for the huge effects shots, this is some genuine restoration magic at work. Film grain appears to have undergone a little bit of management per Paramount’s usual workings, but nothing too intrusive or severe. It’s not the waxy mess of the original 2009 Theatrical Cut Blu-ray, there’s an actual grain structure to appreciate. Some of the original optical effects still appear a little dodgy, but others look tighter and clearer than ever before.

This version of the film also underwent a new color grading for Dolby Vision (and HDR10) that leaves the film looking vibrant and lush without over-saturating primaries or skin tones. Black levels are deep and inky and some of those grand visual effects shots against that vast starfield lend some impressive depth to the image. It may be slow and indulgent, but Scotty delivering Kirk to the Enterprise is simply glorious. The new CGI effects also blend much better and barely draw any attention to themselves, this isn’t at all like that other space franchise's "Special Editions." The biggest visual gain here is we now have a sense of scale to the inside of V’GR and it’s quite impressive in 2160p with HDR. Whites in those dentist smock uniforms are also much more vivid and crisp. 

I missed out on seeing this restoration in theaters and like so many I’ve had to get by with Paramount+ streaming. Without the compression of streaming, this version looks even better on disc. Black levels have always been dodgy whenever I stream content so it’s nice not seeing those anomalies with this disc release. I honestly can’t imagine this film looking any better than this. It’s genuinely marvelous." 5/5

star trek motion picture 4k complete adventure

The Theatrical Cut and The Longer Version share virtually the same 2160p Dolby Vision transfer. Packed on the same disc together, the Longer Version scenes slip in and out via seamless branching and I am quite impressed to say that you don't notice a change in visual quality. Overall this is a very impressive transfer. However, these two cuts of the film didn’t enjoy the complete ground-up restoration and reconstruction efforts of the Director’s Edition and comparing them, these are a slight step down in overall quality. They’re still very good, they both feel big and cinematic but that Director’s Edition is just that good. 

With that in mind, I do like this transfer. The appearance of grain management may be a bit more noticeable but the image isn’t completely scrubbed or waxy-textured like the old 2009 disc. Film grain remains and fine details emerge beautifully letting you fully appreciate the work that went into bringing this new vision of Star Trek to life. Those spaceship models are again gorgeous and real show-stoppers. The only improvement for the Longer Version is that the Kirk space walk scene has actually been completed. Past VHS releases (and I think LaserDisc releases) showed incomplete footage with the soundstage quite clearly visible in the background. The restoration team did a good job finishing that moment so that it isn’t this bizarre screwed-up shot. All in all, both the Theatrical and Longer Version are impressive.  4.5/5

Audio Review

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[From our Director’s Edition - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review] 

"The  Director’s Edition  also comes packed in with a genuinely fantastic demo-worthy Atmos audio mix. From the opening overture and credits into the Klingon attack, this is a big soundscape at work. Front, side, rear, and overhead channels all get their time in the sun. Even the quietest conversational scenes have something happening to keep those channels engaged. A little moment like the first time Kirk arrives on the bridge and everyone is too busy to notice him, the chitter-chatter among the crew circles the channels beautifully. Throughout, the dialog is clean and clear and never overpowered by other elements. If anything, it’s actually easier to hear a lot of dialog exchanges since this cut used a number of different ADR takes for some dialog and the extra channel space keeps the mix from sounding too stiff or closed up. Then you have the iconic Jerry Goldsmith score. I play this movie loud largely because his compositions are so magnificent, but they sound incredible here. There’s cleaner and clearer instrumentation giving you the full appreciation of the orchestra. The Klingon theme with those pulsing low notes and harp twangs set the stage for the LFE response for the rest of the film. Levels are spot on without any need to monitor or keep your thumb on the remote, but play it loud! When you have the rumble of ships’ engines rattling your subs, you’ll be glad you punched the volume as loud as your ears can tolerate."  5/5

Now the Theatrical Version for Star Trek: The Motion Picture comes in with the same Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track from the first 4K release - that is also the same as the 2009 Blu-ray - which isn’t bad at all. Dated, sure, but it’s still powerful and sounds amazing. It may not be as fresh sounding or as sonically dynamic as the new Atmos mix for the Director’s Edition, but it’s still very good. 4/5

The Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture sports a Dolby Digital 2.0 track that while clearly weaker than the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mix, still sounds pretty good. This cut of the film is more of a curiosity to me anyway so not getting the full Atmos or 7.1 treatment isn’t a bother - but I do wonder why it’s not in TrueHD. There may be some limitations with the elements available, I’m not sure, but it is a weird step back in overall quality. Again that scene where Scotty takes Kirk to the Enterprise, the Goldsmith score just doesn’t kick as it does in the other cuts. It’ll get the job done.  3/5

Special Features

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There is a metric ton of bonus content to dig through. You get all of the audio commentaries for the Director’s Edition and Theatrical Cut along with that massive Blu-ray bonus disc full of new and archival extra features. The other cool extra here is for the Longer Version they’ve included the original fully restored but unaltered Kirk Spacewalk scene so you can see just how goofy seeing that soundstage looked. Really, the unfinished shot is only a few seconds but it is a notable WTF moment in Star Trek history. While it’s not in the new final restored Longer Version, I’m glad they preserved it as a bonus.

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc One

  • Audio Commentary featuring David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren Dochterman
  • Audio Commentary featuring Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbulll, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins
  • Text Commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda
  • Isolated Score Track (found in the settings menu)

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Two

  • Theatrical Version Audio Commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
  • Longer Version: Kirk Follows Spock (UHD 1:46)

Bonus Blu-ray

  • NEW The Human Adventure 8-Part Documentary  (HD 48:17 Total)
  • Preparing the Future
  • A Wise Choice
  • Refitting the Enterprise
  • Sounding Off
  • V’GER
  • Return to Tomorrow
  • A Grand Theme
  • The Grand Vision
  • NEW Three Deleted Scenes  (HD 4:31 Total)
  • Ilia & Decker in Engineering
  • Security Guard
  • Three Casualties
  • NEW Effects Tests  (HD 3:30)
  • NEW Costume Tests  (HD 4:40)
  • NEW Computer Display Graphics  (HD 3:10)
  • The Star Trek Universe
  • Phase II: The Lost Enterprise  (SD 12:39)
  • A Bold New Enterprise  (SD 29:41)
  • Redirecting the Future  (SD 14:06)
  • The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture  (HD 10:44)
  • Special Star Trek Reunion  (HD 9:37)
  • Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’Ger  (HD 4:24)
  • The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek  (HD 30:01)
  • Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek: The Motion Picture  (HD 29:13)
  • Storyboards
  • Vulcan 
  • Enterprise Departure 
  • V’Ger Revealed 
  • Deleted Scenes - 1979 Theatrical Cut
  • Trims  (SD 6:08)
  • Outtakes/Memory Wall  (SD 2:49)
  • Vulcan and Starfleet  (SD 4:15)
  • Attack on the Enterprise  (SD 2:36)
  • Cloud Journey  (SD 3:31)
  • V’Ger Flyover  (SD 5:04)
  • Wing Walk  (SD 4:48)
  • Deleted Scenes - 1983 TV Version
  • Sulu and Ilia 1  (SD 1:06)
  • Sulu and Ilia 2  (SD 00:27)
  • Kirk’s Quarters  (SD 00:21)
  • Officer’s Lounge  (SD 00:13)
  • Attack on the Enterprise  (SD 1:08)
  • Intruder Transformation  (SD 00:32)
  • A Huge Vessel  (SD 00:47)
  • Kirk Follows Spock  (SD 1:13)
  • Ilia’s Quarters 1  (SD 1:05)
  • Ilia’s Quarters 2  (SD 1:20)
  • Its Creator Is a Machine  (SD 00:17)
  • Teaser Trailer 
  • Theatrical Trailer 

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition The Complete Adventure is a true love letter to fans of the film. You get the exceptionally restored Director’s Edition, as well as the Theatrical Cut and Longer Version of the film along with tons of excellent new and archival bonus features. On top of the excellent disc content, you score some extra swag including stickers, bumper stickers, and an impressive booklet of production design materials all housed in a beautiful bookcase. My only gripe is I wish the book slipcase had been made of the same hard sturdy stock instead of the flimsy and easily damaged paper stock.

At the end of the day, no matter how amazing this set is, it’s ultimately for the die-hardiest of the die-hard Star Trek: The Motion Picture fans. This is the only way to get all three cuts of the film and by and large I got a hunch most folks will stick to the Director’s Edition anyway. The Theatrical Cut is still very good but the Longer Version is more of an interesting curiosity than an in-demand way to watch the film. At least in my opinion. I’m sure they’re out there, but I haven’t yet met anyone that absolutely holds to the Longer Version as their preferred cut to watch. If you feel this set is for you, you get a lot of amazing content with incredible picture and audio quality with hours upon hours of magnificent bonus features to enjoy. For Serious Star Trek Fans Only

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Star Trek The Motion Picture 4K Blu-ray The Director's Edition Complete Adventure

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition Complete Adventure is a three-disc (five-disc for Europe) "Limited Collector's Edition" 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc / Digital boxset, released on 6 September 2022 , collecting the 4K UHD releases of all three versions of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , to wit the Theatrical Version/Cut, the Director's Edition , and the "Special Longer Version" aka [ABC] Television Cut. As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks) are only included on the Blu-ray disc of the release.

The set was released on the occasion of the completion of the long awaited [1] in 4K HD 2160p resolution remastered version of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture   (The Director's Edition) in 2022. [2] As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to North-America only, as the – former Blu-ray Region B [3] – European releases do not have these) redeemable codes are included to download the theatrical and Director's Edition (but not the Special Longer Version) versions of the film in 4K resolution digitally.

UK box back cover (notice lack of the digital option)

The set is executed as a book-style three-panel foldout, of which two are used for mounting the discs. The third panel holds the physical bonus collectibles that come with the set. The foldout itself comes within a thinly embossed cardboard slip-over box measuring 10.6" wide, 6.9" high, and 0.5" deep.

As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this release, nor had an exact Blu-ray counterpart of this set for that matter. The Director's Edition though, did see an individual release in both a downscaled concurrent Blu-ray , and a 4K UHD (without special features) format version. The Theatrical Cut had already seen a downscaled 2021 Blu-ray release , whereas an individual 4K UHD release was now issued as well along with that of the Director's Edition. The "Special Longer Version" though, did not receive the same treatment as the others and remained a 4K UHD-only release, exclusive to this set alone.

Neither has the 4K UHD Theatrical Version for that matter, which remained an exclusive for this, and the concurrently released Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection (in which the "Special Longer Version" was not included), as well as its 4-Movie predecessor 4K UHD sets, though the theatrical cut at least had seen its own downscaled standalone Blu-ray release a year earlier.

The European releases differed in this respect that two extra discs were included in the set containing the downscaled Blu-ray versions of both the Theatrical Version and The Director's Edition, featuring the exact same special features as their respective 2021/22 individual Blu-ray release counterparts. These two Blu-ray discs were not included in the American set. But as the third Blu-ray disc in the European set did concern the same as the North American one, this meant that several of the special features were included twice in the European sets. [2] Another difference was that the UK cardboard packaging was much sturdier that its North American counterpart. [3]

  • 2 Background information
  • 3 Footnotes
  • 4 External links

Contents [ ]

  • 4K UHD feature presentation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition)
  • Audio commentary by David C. Fein , Mike Matessino , and Daren R. Dochterman (New)
  • Audio commentary by Robert Wise , Douglas Trumbull , John Dykstra , Jerry Goldsmith , and Stephen Collins
  • Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
  • Isolated Score Track (Dolby Digital 2.0).
  • 4K UHD feature presentations of Star Trek: The Motion Picture Theatrical, and Special Longer Versions
  • Audio Commentary: Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens , and Daren R. Dochterman. (Theatrical version only)
  • Isolated Score Track (Dolby Digital 2.0, Theatrical version only)
  • Original unfinished "Kirk Follows Spock" scene in 4K UHD (1:46, Special Longer Version)
  • Special features in Blu-ray – see here (Disc Two) for content breakdown.
  • Four contemporary bumper sticker reproductions.
  • Four contemporary lobby card reproductions.
  • Sticker sheet with six stickers.
  • Folded mini poster featuring the new Director’s Edition artwork.
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture Archives softcover booklet, featuring behind-the-scenes production photos, production design artwork, and vintage product shots.
  • The digital copy code on a paper insert (Not present in the European sets).

For the contents of the extra two discs contained in the European sets, please refer to the identical individual Blu-ray disc entries of

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition

Background information [ ]

"Kirk Follows Spock" scene as originally featured...

  • While the Special Longer Version has except for the picture remastering remained unaltered, there was one noticeable exception. The Longer Version featured a scene that was never included in any of the other two versions. It concerned the, what TrekMovie.com had called "rather infamous scene" in which Kirk decides to follow Spock aka the "Kirk Follows Spock" scene as it was called on all home video formats were it was included as a deleted scene special feature. That shot was intended for the "Memory Wall" sequence, which was scrapped for severe time constraints and therefore never completed. However, it was decided by the ABC executives to have the scene as extension for another sequence included in their TV version after all, regardless of its unfinished state, and so the shot with the exposed primary hull studio set scaffolding was not only seen in the television version as aired, but also on all the contemporary Longer Version Betamax , VHS , and Laserdisc home video releases. For this release though, the producers decided to complete the shot by digitally adding Enterprise hull plating in order to obscure the set scaffolding, an effect that was originally intended to be done by matte painting , and insert this completed shot into the 4K UHD version. The original unfinished shot was included on the disc as a special feature, and is in effect the only moving footage included as such on either of the two 4K UHD discs.
  • This release is the first time that the Special Longer Version can be seen in its original theatrical widescreen aspect ratio. All previous home video releases feature that film version in the (left and right cropped) Pan & Scan format, an aspect ratio specifically adopted for the then-current screen dimensions of television sets.
  • Aside from the picture remastering to 4K UHD standards, two versions of the film have also undergone a soundtrack remastering from Dolby TrueHD 7.1 to Dolby Atmos 7.1. The Special Longer Version, which has kept its original DD Stereo soundtrack, is the exception.
  • Panels 2 & 3 of the foldout onto which the discs are mounted, feature as background a cutaway illustration of the refit - USS Enterprise when opened. That illustration actually concerns David A. Kimble 's cutaway poster he had created for the 1980 release by The Mind's Eye Press .

Footnotes [ ]

  • ↑ Talks of a High Definition release of the Director's Edition had been floating around since April 2013, but various reasons conspired against such a release for nearly a decade. For further background information on this subject matter, see main article .
  • ↑ Essentially the High Definition (HD) upgrade of the original 2001 DVD release, the same David C. Fein, Michael Matessino and Daren Dochterman production team responsible for that release was re-assembled again for the HD upgrade oversight, and who on that occasion took on the other two film versions as well. According to Star Trek.com , the upgrade took over six months to complete.
  • ↑ The Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Trek 's case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [1] (X) – , only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward.

External links [ ]

  • Announcement at StarTrek.com
  • David C. Fein Shares the Secrets of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition at StarTrek.com
  • Go Behind-the-Scenes of the Restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture at StarTrek.com
  • Review at TrekMovie.com
  • Review at Blu-ray.com
  • Review at TheDigitalBits.com
  • 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

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Title: Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition – The Complete Adventure Format: 4k Blu-ray/Blu-ray Release Date: Sept. 6, 2022 Price: List $109.99 | Price $97.99

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  • Audio Commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman — NEW!
  • Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins​
  • Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda​

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  • Preparing the Future – How the remastering began
  • A Wise Choice – The storied history of Robert Wise
  • Refitting the Enterprise – How the Enterprise design shaped future federation starships
  • Sounding Off – Exploring new dimensions of sound in Dolby Atmos
  • V’ger – The conception and restoration of an iconic alien antagonist
  • Return to Tomorrow – Reaching an already high bar with new CGI effects
  • A Grand Theme – Behind the iconic, influential music score that shaped the franchise’s future
  • The Grand Vision – The legacy and evolving reputation of this classic movie
  • Deleted Scenes— NEW!
  • Effects Tests— NEW!
  • Costume Tests— NEW!
  • Computer Display Graphics— NEW!
  • Additional legacy bonus content

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This Limited-Edition Collector’s Set includes all of the above, plus an additional 4K Ultra HD disc containing:

  • The Theatrical Cut
  • The first-ever widescreen presentation of the Special Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , originally created for broadcast television in 1983

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Director Robert Wise’s definitive vision, eagerly anticipated by STAR TREK fans for over two decades, has been meticulously restored and remastered for optimal picture and sound. This must-have release features a bonus disc with hours of new and legacy special features, including extensive behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, and more. The adventure begins when an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers. Captain James T. Kirk boldly returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. This bold adventure launched one of the longest running movie franchises of all time and features the cast of the original STAR TREK series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan.

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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.85 x 5.47 x 0.51 inches; 3.49 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2022
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, George Takei
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ PARAMOUNT
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B45SYKRJ
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