Dec. 7, 2025

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trivia

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trivia
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Celebrate the anniversary of the first Star Trek film with trivia from the Enterprise’s big-screen debut.

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Callarogus Shark Media Reading's trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and

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today we're celebrating Star Trek the Motion Picture. Question one.

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Star Trek the Motion Picture debuted in what year, marking

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the franchises jump from television to film? Question two? What

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is the name of the vast mysterious cloud entity that

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threatens Earth in the film? Question three? Who directed Star

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Trek the Motion Picture? Question four? Which original series character

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becomes closely linked to the entity Vedure through a transformed probe?

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Question five? What real old NASA probe inspired the film's

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central twist about Veger's true identity. We'll be right back

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with these warp speed answers after this break. Welcome back.

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Let's reveal those answers. Question one. What year did the

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film debut? Answer nineteen seventy nine. The movie helped revive

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Star Trek and led to a string of films and

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later TV series. Question two, What was the name of

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the mysterious cloud? Answer VGR A massive sension entity on

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a mission to find its creator. Question three who directed

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the film? Answer Robert Wise, the acclaimed director behind West

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Side Story and The Day the Earth Stood Still? Question four?

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Which character links to veger answer Ilia played by Pursus Cambata,

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who is recreated by vgr as a probe Question five.

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What NASA probe inspired the twist answer Voyager? In the film,

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Veigre is revealed to be an evolved version of a

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Voyager spacecraft that gained immense knowledge that concludes today's five

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daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison. Portions of this program

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were made with the help of AI See you Tomorrow.