What was the first ST movie you ever saw in theaters?

[TheGoodStuff]

I feel rather left out as I've never seen any Trek in theaters. /sigh

Same here. This thread bummed me out when I first saw it.

I'd love to see TMP, WoK, GEN or FC in a cinema. There is a cinema I know dedicated to showing old movies and I always keep an eye on their schedule...watching...hoping...

Holy Crap!!! Really? (as I do my terrible Marie Antoinette)

I would Gladly participate in a CrowdFund to allow you to see them on the Big Screen!

Though, with the 50th coming up, perhaps the Good People at Paramount/CBS will arrange for some RetroScreening!

Which would Rule!

I hope you get your wish soon!

Your reply and well wishes made me smile...

I have been a huge ST fan for such a long time but just never managed to catch them in the cinema. Being in Scotland, I don't hold out a mountain of hope for ever catching one of the pre-JJ films in theatre.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Unfortunately Nemesis was the first and last Pre-Reboot ST film I've seen in theatres.

 

[Mysterion]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Everett Theater, Everett, WA - 7 December 1979.

 

[Greg Cox]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Everett Theater, Everett, WA - 7 December 1979.

Oh my God. I was there, too, that night, along with my entire college SF club. We drove down from Bellingham to Everett to see the movie on opening night.

Small world . . . ..

 

[Mysterion]

^^^
I would have been the annoying long-haired teen who was first in line that night because he skipped school and work to be there. Sat in front of the box-office for about ten hours of or so. In my defense it was my 18th birthday, so...

 

[Greg Cox]

^^^
I would have been the annoying long-haired teen who was first in line that night because he skipped school and work to be there. Sat in front of the box-office for about ten hours of or so. In my defense it was my 18th birthday, so...

I remember you!

No, just kidding. As I recall, it was a mob scene. I would have been with the van load of young college kids who somehow managed to buy some tickets in advance via a local STAR TREK fan group.

But I'm sure you remember our first glimpse of the Enterprise getting a standing ovation . . . .

So, I have to ask: Did you later camp out on the sidewalk in the front of the UA 150 theater in Seattle to catch EMPIRE and JEDI on opening night? 'Cause I was there, too.

 

[Mysterion]

^^^^
Not there for opening night of Empire, but did see it at the UA 150 on a Saturday morning matinee showing with a very enthusiastic audience. Saw Alien at the UA 150 also. Saw Jedi down in Lakewood when it came out as I was stationed down at Fort Lewis at the time.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The Search For Spock. Since then, I've seen all of them in the cinema except Nemesis (and, obviously TMP and TWOK)

 

[Greg Cox]

^^^^
Not there for opening night of Empire, but did see it at the UA 150 on a Saturday morning matinee showing with a very enthusiastic audience. Saw Alien at the UA 150 also. Saw Jedi down in Lakewood when it came out as I was stationed down at Fort Lewis at the time.

I saw Alien at the UA 150 too, although not on opening night, so, alas, I was spoiled about chestburster scene.

Camped out all night on the sidewalk for Jedi, though, along with throngs of other fans.

 

[mattman8907]

First Star Trek movie i saw in theater was Star Trek Nemesis.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Everett Theater, Everett, WA - 7 December 1979.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Everett Theater, Everett, WA - 7 December 1979.

Oh my God. I was there, too, that night, along with my entire college SF club. We drove down from Bellingham to Everett to see the movie on opening night.

Small world . . . ..

^^^
I would have been the annoying long-haired teen who was first in line that night because he skipped school and work to be there. Sat in front of the box-office for about ten hours of or so. In my defense it was my 18th birthday, so...

You guys make me jealous. I'm almost convinced my biological mother at least saw it. I was in utero when that one came out! I think I heard the music!

 

[HarryCanyon1982]

First Star Trek movie i saw in theater was Star Trek Nemesis.

Really?

 

[eyeresist]

First Star Trek movie i saw in theater was Star Trek Nemesis.

Really?

If you've been following the thread, you'll have seen that NEM was the first for several people.

(And I know some feel NEM is underrated.)

 

[FormerLurker]

I went to see TFF on opening night with a couple of friends for whom it was their first Star Trek, film or otherwise. As we walked out of the theater I was biting my tongue to keep from killing their enthusiasm over how well they had liked it. I and my other Trek fan friends looked around at each other and merely said "If you liked that one, you'll really enjoy the others, too!"

 

[Use of Time]

Became a fan in 1995 so my first theatrical Star Trek experience was First Contact.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I went to see TFF on opening night with a couple of friends for whom it was their first Star Trek, film or otherwise. As we walked out of the theater I was biting my tongue to keep from killing their enthusiasm over how well they had liked it.

We came out of ST V only to see this poster hanging in front of us. And we literally fell over ourselves laughing.


To stop people leaving early? by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Khan 2.0]

Love that poster

 

[The Old Mixer]

First Star Trek movie i saw in theater was Star Trek Nemesis.

While I don't represent the franchise in any official capacity, please allow me to apologize on behalf of Star Trek.

 

[ScottDS]

Star Trek Generations. I was 11 and saw it at the local General Cinema theater (remember them?) with my brother, cousin, dad, and grandfather. I don't know what the adults thought but we kids loved it!

Today, not so much.

In all seriousness, I had just gotten into Trek two years earlier. The run up to Generations was huge: the ending of TNG, the pending premiere of VGR, Kirk and Picard on the cover of Time Magazine, the various TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly covers, etc. I bought the movie magazine, the novelization, and the soundtrack (which has since been supplanted by the expanded score release).

 

[OpenMaw]

My first was also Generations.

I was really bummed that they glass jawed the D and they didn't have Kirk actually working with the Next Gen crew like the trailer so blatantly implied.

Next outing was First Contact, which is one of those cinema experiences I will never forget. That's Star Trek's best "popcorn" movie in my opinion. Yeah, it has flaws, but it's still the best of the TNG films and it tells a fairly compelling action-adventure romp. The audience was very positive and reactive as I remember. Everything with the Phoenix is awesome. I remember when she separates and they blow off the panels and those old-style warp engines were revealed. The crowed whooped and applauded. The ending with the Vulcans and the hand shake got applause, too.

"Live long and Propser"
"Thanks."

The next time I saw a Trek film in theaters was Star Trek Into Darkness.