SilverWook said:

AFAIK, all overture screens are blank. (2001 being a good example.) I saw The Black Hole theatrically, and it also had a black overture screen. It's overture wasn't restored until the early DVD release, and then they put a star field shot over it.

Still images and titles on overtures are a home video invention, so people don't wonder why they are hearing music but not seeing anything.

The overture for the Director's version has a moving starfield to give the eye something to do while the ears are having a nice time with Jerry Goldsmith's score.

Exploring is exactly like TMP, long meanders leading to the occasional astonishing vista, not a perpetual race through Dutch angled daisy cutter explosions, like the JJ films or two Captains in various stages of follicular challenge shouting bloody revenge while people make jokes regarding how old they are getting, like most of the post TMP films.

There is as much story in the TMP as TWOK it's just not as quotable and amusing or camp.