Star Trek: The Motion Picture

4K Ultra HD

Blu Ray

  • Score
    96
    from 7 reviewers
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition, now restored in 4K and Dolby Atmos, becomes a must-have for Trekkies and film collectors alike.

    Star Trek: The Motion Picture
    1979
    143 min
    G
    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision
    Dolby Atmos
  • Video
    96
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Edition features a meticulously restored 4K UHD presentation using Panavision cameras, offering enhanced visuals, completed effects, and improved HDR, making it a truly definitive version for fans of the franchise.

  • Audio
    98
  • The Director's Edition offers a better narrative experience for true fans, boasting a beautifully rendered Dolby Atmos track, precise instrumentals, seamless clarity, and fantastic immersive audio. Rediscovered ADR recordings and vintage upmixes add magic, while impactful low frequencies enhance the overall experience.

  • Extra
    97
  • New UHD set features Director's Edition 4K with commentaries, raw set footage, visual effects plates, interviews, and additional scenes! A mix of fresh and legacy extras makes this release appealing, despite subpar packaging.

  • Movie
    91
  • Admiral Kirk returns to helm a transformed U.S.S. Enterprise, in the remastered 137-min Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as they face an alien threat; the film showcases grand ideas, ambition, and a sensational score in the resurgent space-age sci-fi genre.

    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision
    Dolby Atmos

    Director: Robert Wise

    Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

    Plot: When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

    Disc Release Date: 6 September 2022

    all scores

    avforums review by Simon Crust
    • Video
      100
    • Star Trek: The Motion Picture was shot on 35mm film using Panavision Panaflex and Panavision PSR R-200 Cameras with the UHD release benefitting from Paramount’s meticulous 4K scan and restoration as per...

    • Audio
      100
    • Director’s Edition...

    • Extra
      90
    • A word about the packaging – the envelope housing everything is not a hard cover, which is a bit of a shame. The folder opens out to reveal a pocket that holds the ‘tat’ and the bonus Blu-ray, a wonderful...

    • Movie
      90
    • It was all supposed to be over....

    • Total
      90
    • Star Trek: The Motion Picture’s impact cannot be understated. It had a lot to achieve on its initial release: re-introduce Star Trek to a new audience and kickstart the franchise. The gamble of making...

    Blu-ray.com review by Martin Liebman
    • Video
      80
    • .Paramount brings this Director's Edition UHD presentation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture to the UHD format with a brand-new restoration. The picture is vastly different from the 2021 Blu-ray. Both share...

    • Audio
      100
    • The new Dolby Atmos track is a work of art. The overture score is beautifully rendered with precise instrumentals and seamless clarity. Full stage engagement is in evidence, but the track maintains a natural...

    • Extra
      100
    • This new UHD set includes new and returning extras. Below is a breakdown of what's included. Reviews of new content are included, and reviews of any legacy materials can be found by clicking here. A few...

    • Movie
      80
    • Paramount has yet again released Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Blu-ray (also to UHD), this time in the 137-minute "Director's Edition" version. This version has been remastered; it is not the same image...

    • Total
      90
    • I've now seen this film several times in the past 13 months, and it's grown on me. Substantially. That growth has propelled it to be my second favorite of all the Star Trek films, TOS or otherwise, behind...

    The Digital Bits review by Bill Hunt
    • Video
      95
    • The Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition is available on disc in three versions in the US—the 2-disc 4K Ultra HD release reviewed here, a 2-disc Blu-ray release (available on Amazon), and...

    • Audio
      100
    • The Director’s Edition team has found all kinds of original ADR recordings (including Wise’s preferred takes, a few of which never made it into the Theatrical Version), along with background dialogue,...

    • Extra
      100
    • Particularly interesting is a discussion of the recompositing they did for this version—taking the original large format VFX plates and putting them all together in best-ever resolution....

    • Movie
      95
    • And Enterprise has changed too, having undergone an extensive redesign and refit under the care of its chief engineer, Montgomery Scott (James Doohan)....

    • Total
      98
    • Hats off to all those involved in the making of this film, to David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman for carrying the Director’s Edition torch (Congratulations, gentlemen!), and to everyone...

    • Video
      80
    • More than upscaling, everything is redone from the negatives at full 4K, bringing the additional footage into the modern era for a truly definitive version....

    • Audio
      100
    • When doors close specifically in a surround channel or the score sensationally parks a portion of itself in the heights, it’s magic, and among the best vintage upmixes to Atmos to date....

    • Extra
      100
    • The biggie is a new 48-minute documentary that delves deep into the production with numerous previously unseen tidbits, including raw set footage, visual effects plates, and countless interviews....

    • Movie
      80
    • Much as the ponderous first trip around the Enterprise stalls any sense of narrative, when Jerry Goldsmith’s sensational score increases tempo, what’s created is a monument to pop culture....

    • Total
      90
    • ...

    High-Def Digest review by Matthew Hartman
    • Video
      100
    • 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...

    • Audio
      100
    • 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,...

    • Extra
      100
    • Not to be content with simply recycling archival materials - which are all excellent - Paramount sweetens the deal with an exciting collection of new extras and making-of materials to pick through giving...

    • Movie
      90
    • Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of grand ideas and ambition. After the dynamite hit of Star Wars, suddenly space-age Science Fiction wasn’t a secondary genre. Every studio had to have the next “Star...

    • Total
      100
    • Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition is an exciting version of this massive cinematic undertaking. Now fully restored and reconstructed for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Robert Wise’s preferred version...

    AVSForum review by Ralph Potts
    • Video
      94
    • This Director’s Edition brings Robert Wise’s film to Ultra HD with minimally fleshed out moments and completed visual effects....

    • Audio
      94
    • I was just glad to see my favorites back together on an adventure. Does The Director’s Edition reinvent the wheel? Nah, but it makes for a slightly better narrative experience that true fans are sure to...

    • Extra
      90
    • Disc 1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director’s Edition 4KAudio Commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman—NEW!Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra,...

    • Movie
      80
    • 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...

    • Total
      90
    • The Director’s Edition is long past due for an upgraded home video release and this Ultra HD Blu-ray/Digital release from Paramount Home Entertainment with its fully restored video, Dolby Atmos sound and...

    Why So Blu? review by Brandon Peters
    • Video
      100
    • HDR comes in wonderfully with engines lights, display lighters, lightning and the wild V’ger atmosphere really popping and glowing....

    • Audio
      100
    • Low Frequency Extension: Lots of score hits, ship firing, crashing, rumbling and more really gets a good thump and shake from your subwoofer....

    • Extra
      100
    • Mystery Behind V’GER”, “The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek”, “Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek The Motion Picture” Storyboards – Vulcan, Enterprise Departure, V’GER Revealed Additional Scenes 1979...

    • Movie
      80
    • ...

    • Total
      100
    • This is a must have for the not only the Trekkie side of things, but the serious film collector as well....