Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Podcast




Lunchtime Movie Review show

Summary: Film. The final frontier. These are scenes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Its mission: to placate fanboys and shut Gene Roddenberry the hell up. The movie starts with a giant energy cloud in space destroying everything in its path. It was totally already done in episode # 2x18, The Obsession. Three Klingon Birds of Prey investigate. Two get blown up and the other then tries to retreat before they too meet Kahless in Stovokor. Wait, retreat? What the hell kind of Klingons are we dealing with? Qapla, indeed. Meanwhile in Sector 001, the Enterprise is undergoing a major refit. Kirk, who has been promoted to admiral for banging numerous Orion slave girls, throws a major hissy fit and regains command of the Enterprise to investigate the space cloud coming straight for Earth. Captain Decker, who oversaw the refit and was to take command, gets his space panties in a bunch and doesn’t take the news too well. Hey, at least he still has his relationship with Illia… who is bald… and took a celibacy vow. Ok, I can see why Decker is frustrated. Kirk addresses the crew in the most motivational way he can: showing the cloud destroying the Klingon ships. You can tell Kirk suppressed doing the jig when he saw the Klingons go the way of his son… wait… that happens later in the timeline. Nevermind...