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Originally Posted by mar3o
Seriously, for the first time we can actually see the shape of the ship. I never understood what the ship was supposed to look like.
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I used to watch the original theatrical cut of TMP religiously as a kid and I still had no idea where things were in relationship to each other. The moment Kirk gives the order to "Hold relative position here", I didn't know that the Enterprise was now in front of the V'Ger vessel and had turned 180º to face it! I thought it was still moving in the same direction even when it entered the interior. Once I saw vessel fully revealed in the Director's Edition, BAM! Everything suddenly clicked.
The only real flaw that's still present in the Director's Edition is that one shot of the tiny Enterprise flying in front of the V'Ger vessel. It'd be nice if they took that shot and replaced it with something that showed a better view of the front of the V'Ger vessel and have the Enterprise turn around to face it. There's certainly enough time spent on that shot to pull something like that off.
And in regards to the 'reveal' ruining the mystery of the V'Ger vessel? Well, keeping things a mystery isn't really the point in TMP. From the very beginning towards the very end, things are gradually revealed to us. The scope of the cloud, the build up to the reveal of the Enterprise, the jouney through the cloud, the origins of V'Ger and V'Ger itself. Revealing the V'Ger vessel compliments the film because like everything else, it's overall reveal comes slowly and gradually. And seeing this very alien looking vessel in it's entirety also helps set-up the V'Ger reveal sinec it turns out to not be alien at all.