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NightlyPoe said:

Ganoncrotch said:

The only real change so to the star wars stand alone movies after this one will be that their budgets will be even stricter again as they'll have to take into account the potentially low sales of a movie about some of the more abstract background characters from the original or even prequel trilogies. Not that a strict budget is always a bad thing, one of the cheapest made Star Trek films ever was Wrath of Khan because there was no faith in the series after the Motion picture bombed so hard... think still hard to name many Trek movies better than Khan.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture didn't bomb at all.  In fact, it was a big hit.  To this day, when adjusted for inflation, it's the second highest grossing Star Trek movie and only Star Trek IV and Star Trek: First Contact did better than it for the entirety of the ten Shatner and Stewart-led movies.  Not bad considering that the movie itself was a mess.  The budget did get out of control though, no doubt about that.  It cost like twice as much as The Empire Strikes Back a year later, which is just nutty.  And all they got for their money were a few ridiculously slow scenes that only Star Trek model builders could love.

Thank goodness it didn't bomb, or that franchise would have never have never reached the peaks it did by the 90s.

I love building Trek Models....

or without lights on....

I did not love those scenes :D

But when I say the motion picture bombed, I mean it bombed compared to all sorts of expectations of it, consider it cost 46million to create in comparison to the 11million it cost to create the original Star Wars just 2 years prior, then compare the 140m it took at the box office again compared to the near 800million that Star Wars took 2 years before with quarter the budget.

Put it like this, would anyone think Star Trek: Nemesis didn't bomb even though on Wiki it's listed as having made a 7m dollar profit! 7million is a lot of money