Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
There are 3 versions of Star Trek - The Motion Picture. The 1979 theatrical cut (132 minutes). The 1983 ABC Special Longer Version (144 minutes) and the 2001 Director's Edition (136 minutes). That's it.
Neil
There are 3 versions of Star Trek - The Motion Picture. The 1979 theatrical cut (132 minutes). The 1983 ABC Special Longer Version (144 minutes) and the 2001 Director's Edition (136 minutes). That's it.
Neil
That may not be 100% true (but it most likely is). There is / was strong rumor of yet another edit of the film, but it may be lost forever. The version I speak of is the one shown on airlines back in 79/80. In my youth, I would get myself involved with large numbers of fellow fans at conventions and spend days just talking Trek. It was there that I was told quite a few times by a number of hard core fans about the international airline version of STTMP, and how it contained a much different edit of the film, and "HAD DIFFERENT SPECIAL EFFECTS" in some places. It was suspected at that time that those effects had been done by the company hired to work on the film before John Dykstra and Douglas Trumbull became involved. Now in the "making of" on the new DVD, It is said that none of those early effects could be used and had just been in the testing phase when aborted. Now is that true or not? It would not be the first misinformation given on one of those types of programs. Could the alternate effects have been test footage, or footage done by Dykstra and Trumbull that has just been left out of other versions? I believe it is very possible for the airlines (or more likely one airline) to have been given a work print of the movie by mistake by someone at Paramount or who ever handles that stuff for them.
Anyone other then myself hear about this version?
THX-1138
