Kubrick wanted to show "the future of space flight". Watching astronauts unpacking their box lunch and the entire uneventful landing procedure step by plodding step might have been fascinating for sci-fi starved audiences back in 1968 (and even then this Anon wonders). For kids who grew up on Star Wars, it was dull even on the first pass. The second time and on every subsequent viewing it's time to get up, get the menues, go order delivery, make popcorn, refresh everyone's drink and bathroom breaks because we are in NO hurry, folks.

The same is true for Mr. Scott taking Captain Kirk on a leisurely visual "travel pod" trip while the newly improved Enterprise sits in space-dock. The grown-ups who remember being teenagers and pouring over the blueprints of the original Enterprise must have loved it. For those kinds of fans it wasn't a fly-around, it was a reach-around and done with loving slowness so they could enjoy every moment. For everyone else, it's the first hint this is going to be a very long, slow movie.

On the plus side, Dr. McCoy models some men's fashions from the future.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/4/4e/McCoy_beard.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171128070555&path-prefix=en

Mantique is still alive and well, so are flashy pendants, leisure jump suits, and all very much favored by wealthy retired Federation doctors in their late fifties when they're out being pharmaceutical sugar-daddies on the intergalactic disco- club circuit.

*gravelly DeForest Kelly voice*
"C'mon, let's go back to my place. I'll write you prescription…"
…and before any of Bones' loyal fans start setting their phasers to kill, please remember this was a man who was already buying illegal Romulan ale and (in his own words) "gets a case every now and then across the Neutral Zone".