20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Part 2 

Note the jacket switch at the end of the film. Spock's jacket has an orange stripe on the left shoulder. McCoy has a green stripe. When Kirk says " out there , thataway ." The jackets are switched. Look closely.

Hahaha I was coming to comment the very same thing

My thoughts exactly. Normally this type of thing is 'Did you know Super Mario Bros 2 was originally Doki Doki Panic?' levels of trivia. This was a deep dive of some REALLY interesting behind the scenes stuff. Good job, guys!

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@@moehines9943 Looks like you need to shoo the cat off your laptop!

Captain Robert April Right??? I barely knew any of this stuff, and I spend like 90% of my time watching RU-vid documentaries about Star Trek

The uniforms were horrid.

I agree. That would have been just perfect. I mean, it's not like _Star Trek_ hasn't used humour at "inappropriate" moments before, and, really, it's just how Spock and McCoy's friendship is.

These actors really knew their characters, the suites didn't - still holds true to this day.

Nimoy's line seems TOTALLY appropriate to the character.

@@layton3503 How do rooms know characters?

That line would have been better toward the beginning, shortly after he arrives on the Enterprise.

I agree. This kind of quality, all the time? That would eventually be a bulldozer of a channel over all the rest.

One of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips featured a Star Trek panel of Enterprise crewmembers with little Klingons stuck all over them. The caption read, "Captain! We have to do something about the static electricity on the ship. These Cling-Ons are seriously eroding morale!" 🖖😁👍

The Director's cut fixed that

Yeah, it hit at a time when people were looking for something different. Now that we've had versions of _Star Wars_ for decades, TMP adds some welcome variety to all the pew, pews, and 'plosions.

Same here. Great video. Wasn't expecting so many things that I didn't know.

I heard about it but never knew they actually created a soundstage and filmed a whole bunch of scenes for it.

At 2:49.

Indeed. He visited the set during the filming of the Memory Wall.

I like Space: 1999, but I doubt it was an inspiration. It seemed like _2001: A Space Odyssey_ was the reference for a lot of the film visually, and some of the tone. And they needed to personify this very conceptual antagonist in some way, there's probably only so many ways to do that.

Actually, the crewperson replaced by an identical android idea predates Space: 1999. It was a plot point in Roddenberry's "Robot's Return" story outline from his 1973 Genesis II series proposal , which was what Alan Dean Foster adapted into the "In Thy Image" story outline for the aborted 1978 Star Trek II TV series, which became the basis of the TMP script.

How have I not heard of this directors cut of TMP? I was born in 68 and have been a fan of Star Trek pretty much ever since. Well I'm off to see if I can find it and watch. Later.

@@huntjl88 The Director's Cut is such an improvement to the original theatrical version. While still too long, the updates and changes make this version of the movie the definitive version.

@@joshuairon1443 I dunno, I could've done with another hour of showing the refit Enterprise.

Agreed. A Directors cut, extended TV cut and Theatrical. The value of the franchise is in tatters right now. They might as well sell now.

@@Corbomite-ei1ty Oh yeah and unlike Paramount, Universal would actually be able to deliver a high quality release, without excessive DNR in their video encodes or shitty cover artworks.

KRAFTWERK2K6 True 🖖

@@Corbomite-ei1ty To Disney! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 I hear you but that’s old news. You’re talking about the DVD and early days of Blu-ray. Currently, I believe, Universal are doing great if not good 4Ks for Paramount and many of the legacy releases for Paramount have positive scrutiny of late.

Me too. I hated the theatrical cut because it was literally unfinished and confusing, but the Director's Cut has become one of my favorite Trek films. If they had only put off the release a little longer and finished the movie before dumping into onto the public in 1979!

@@wtk6069 Sadly, they could not delay it. By the end of 1978 they were contractually bound to release the film by Dec. 7, 1979 to the tune of $30 million in advances from the theaters. It HAD to go out or Paramount would have been class action sued.

I don't complain about the movie,but it is just a rehash of The Changeling. The only the I really do like about it is.... Those godawful uniforms. I don't know who designed them and I really don't want to know.

@@schristy3637 I don't like the Khan era uniforms, dont look comfortable for daily activity. Plus it felt way to military for my tastes. I prefer TMP overall.

@@TheCastellan I can get that. They do look military. Well if you like the TMP uniforms. You should pick up a book I got as a kid called(I still have it). Star Trek TMP Make-Your-Own Costume Book( 1979 Wallaby). It really was made for kid,but you have to cut and saw.

I've always felt the TMP uniforms looked more like a natural evolution of the TV uniforms then the later TWOK were. The only problem that I ever had with them was the dull gray color. I know that Paramount wanted the ship and crew to look more like real life NASA stuff with a much more antiseptic look, but I definitely missed the colors. That said, I've heard various members of the cast complain about the TMP costumes for being uncomfortable. George Takei tells a humorous story about how, since the uniforms were actually a.jumpsuit and not the 2-piece that they look like, and the zipper was hidden along the shoulder seam and down the back, you needed to be able to get someone to unzip you if you needed to use the bathroom! So everyone was supposedly very happy to get the new ones for Star Trek 2.

Star ship*

@Pretty Paul Roma That would be correct.

Brandon Vasquez Starship*

“I have had enough of you” *kicks Jesus in face*

@@Doctorgoatboy Alien Jesus: “yooooOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!”

"Why does Jesus need an ass kicking?"

lol

@@Doctorgoatboy LOL. Kirk would grab on to a door frame and somehow launch himself sideways at the Son of God.

And it would've been a punishment to everyone but the executive they were "sending a message." You know he had other people take all that to the bank for him. Then the poor tellers had to weigh it all out and cut him a check. Just made a lot of stupid work for people who had nothing to do with it.

This is titled as "Things You Didn't Know".

@@Duodecimal12 Ah! You caught me... It turns out that I did, in fact know these things... Wait a minute... Did you also know these things?

It started in the Middle East but really flourished when Rome adopted Christianity as its official religion.

Riceball01 - I think Judaism had done an awful lot of flourishing before Rome came along.

That is how you end up with a white man with a reddish-brown beard as Jesus. That being the case, which it is, and since apparently God made man in his image, that puts Africa, South America, the Native Americans from North America and Asia(which includes the Middle East) on the outs. So yeah, Western European. There really is no other way to see it.

The bigger question is who doesn't??

@@schristy3637 Jar Jar Abrams

@@the_movielizer I know some don't like Star Trek: Insurrection,but I do. Because I just think of it as a NG esp. It is only an hour and a half long(with out the credits).

I prefer TMP.

@@schristy3637 I like star trek insurrection too,i was talking about the j.j.abrams movies from 2009,2013 and 2016...Begining,Into darkness and Beyond

Ander Ander you never actually watched Star Trek, did you?