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Title: It's the plot, the sub-plots, etc
Review: The magic of this film, the story, is not the terrible direction, the horrible lighting, but the depth of the story. The plot is simple, go to V'Ger before it obliterates Earth, but on the way, we meet up with the main crew. Why did Kirk steal command of the ship from Commander Decker and what problems did that cause? Doc McCoy was re-drafted into service and Spock re-joined but for what reason? Sure, STTMP borrowed from previous Star Trek episodes, but what made this movie good was the interaction of the crew, the sub-plots running all over the place. I urge people to begin to really watch this movie and see just how full it is. Then you will ignore some of the problems of this movie. By all means, the longer version is better, filling out details left out of the original movie.
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