Star Trek 1 “The V'Ger Incident”

Review by JetSetWilly — July 10, 2012 @ 8:07 pm

I first saw this edit over two years ago, and I’m ashamed to say I’ve only just got around to writing a review about it. Overall, I thought it was very well done. BB’s intention of keeping it inline with the original TV series, and as a start to a second 5 year mission, works very well. The original music, fade outs, it all fits, and works very well. It is also an achievement that he managed to take a movie that’s 135 minutes long, and condense it down to 80 minutes, and STILL tell the same story.

UPDATE: April 2013

BionicBob has released an updated version of this edit, which has slight improvements in the video, with a few added extras to boot. Still a good edit, the added bits make this even better.

Is it an improvement? I don’t think it’s a question I can answer, because I still think the original version is a classic Trek story, whereas BionicBob’s version is a different take on it altogether, so it would be unfair to compare them both side by side. What I will say is that it is an excellent way to start a series of edits based on the first 6 Original Series movies, and moulding them into something that he has thought a hell of a lot about.

This is the start of the crew’s second 5 year mission. It would be rude to not join them.

A solid 9/10.

Review by Neglify — March 24, 2012 @ 8:11 am

I only watched Star Trek TMP once and I liked it but thought it was a little too boring for my tastes. I really dug Bob’s edit “The V’Ger Incident”. For me, the pacing was much better and I felt the story flowed really nicely.
There are some technical issues that other reviewers have brought up, such as the audio levels and the letterboxed picture. For me, these didn’t bother me too much, but still factors into it.
Overall Rating – 8/10

Review by Captain Khajiit — June 12, 2010 @ 2:07 pm

Star Trek: The V’ger Incident by bionicbob

Review by Captain Khajiit

This review contains mild spoilers.

The beginning – in the style of the Original Series – is thoroughly entertaining. There are many clever cuts that help the pace greatly, and the added music helps to give the edit a different feel to that of the original film. As others have noted, the issue of the Enterprise refit needs to be better addressed, and the Kirk-Decker antagonism is incompletely removed. One cannot help feeling that the editor has overlooked some fairly obvious deletions that would have helped the edit greatly.

While the edit starts at a terrific pace, it seems to falter towards the end. It is testament to the truly awful pacing of much of the original material that sections of it still seem to drag when part of an eighty-minute edit. This is not the fault of the faneditor, but as the end approached I would have welcomed more of the clever editing that was shown earlier on. As it stands, the latter part of the edit feels like watching The Motion Picture, which is a little bit of a let down after the exceptional beginning.

The ending was intriguing, but it does seem rather hard to follow even for Star Trek fans. It could certainly be made clearer.

Editing: 8 out of 10 The editing itself was done well, but some of the editing choices were questionable.

Entertainment: 7 out of 10 (theatrical - 6 out of 10; director's cut – 7out of 10)

Image and video quality: The video is non-anamorphic widescreen, which is not good. Otherwise, the picture quality is acceptable, and the new effects were generally very well done. 7 out of 10

Audio editing and audio quality: A variety of Star Trek music was implemented successfully, and it was great to hear many original sound effects in The Motion Picture. I did find that the audio level fluctuated throughout the edit though, which was somewhat irritating. 8 out of 10

Presentation: I do not care for menus, but Bionicbob's screens look like the work of a highly accomplished editor. Those who like cover art might have expected the fan editor to make some to complement the rest of the presentation. 8 out of 10

Overall: 7 out of 10 This is the most promising firstling I have seen in a long time. I hope for a second version, and look forward to more edits from bionicbob.

Review by Sunarep — October 9, 2010 @ 2:26 PM

I watched Perdition’s Flames before this edit so instead of watching how Bionicbob sharpened his fanedit skills it felt like a step back since Perdition’s Flames is the better of the two edits to me.
I have only watched Star Trek TMP once, so I cannot appreciate all the little changes Bionicbob has done as much as other Trek Fans here. TMP was never a good movie to me. It had one of the most interesting concepts in sci-fi movie history but the execution buried all the great intention and ideas. The movie is simply not engaging. Cutting an hour from this mvoie still makes it feel too stretched out, maybe it’s possible to cut it down to 50 minutes like a star trek episode.
However the material cut helped progress this movie a little better than in the original and it was more enjoyable (meaning the ideas behind v’ger don’t take so damn long) there is still the bad acting/standing around and staring at stuff/acting like people are fighting that a fanedit can’t fix

Also Perdition’s Flames felt more like a TV-Episode and handled the commercial fade-outs so very well, i was missing this from this edit.

I won’t spoil the end, but I think it’s really cool (even though i was suspecting it since I knew the fantheories, but it’s still very cool)
and I hope Bionicbob revisits this edit some day

7/10