Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- measured
Neutral, measured, measured sci-fi / space, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
Our read · Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive sci-fi · space · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Star Trek
What watching it is actually like.
“You want cosmic 1970s Star Trek philosophy with V'Ger awe once the voyage finally ignites.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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