When this film came out all the Star Trek fans rushed to see it and even though they may have hated it and found the story boring and lifeless they forced themselves not to admit it. Now many years later it has not improved with age and as the entire Captain Kirk and the rest of his crew have become almost cartoonish figures it seems even worse. Why the character of Decker was even written I still can't figure out. Why not just have Kirk still be the Captain? The writers of all the films with Kirk in them were always figuring a way to get him back in the Captains chair somehow. The films all added these excess baggage characters and then did not seem to know what to do with them so they just killed them off. In this one Kirk however plays the ultimate Jerk who just goes and tells the new Captain he's taking over. Then he's lost on this new ship and the viewer gets it's first glimpse of this new "I'm getting older so I deserve respect because I am getting older" Jerk Kirk that would carry on to the next films. Then the entire Decker character bit with VGER is well......Who knows what that's all about maybe he just had had enough of that Jerk Kirk and figured that anything is better than riding back to Earth with Kirk and his special chums.
Review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
