Films like Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) reads as Neutral, measured, measured sci-fi / space, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) poster
1. 2010: The Year We Make Contact1984

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981) poster
2. To the Stars by Hard Ways1981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Andromeda Nebula (1967) poster
3. The Andromeda Nebula1967

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Ikarie XB-1 (1963) poster
4. Ikarie XB-11963

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

The First Spaceship on Venus (1960) poster
5. The First Spaceship on Venus1960

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Logan's Run (1976) poster
6. Logan's Run1976

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981) poster
7. Adieu Galaxy Express 9991981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Quatermass and the Pit (1967) poster
8. Quatermass and the Pit1967

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Silent Running (1972) poster
9. Silent Running1972

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Planet of Storms (1962) poster
10. Planet of Storms1962

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) poster
11. Robinson Crusoe on Mars1964

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Tales from Earthsea (2006) poster
12. Tales from Earthsea2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Star Trek: The Motion Picture’s neighbours — where are yours?

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