Twenty-eight years ago today...

[Admiral Buzzkill]

..."Star Trek: The Motion Picture" premiered to the public, on December 7, 1979.

Or, as Majel Barrett put it on one occasion: "That's the day a lot of bombs fell."

 

[Kegek]

Mmm. In the scheme of things, it's difficult to decide which was a more important day in history - '41, or '79?

Probably '79. But if you stick a Goldsmith score onto '41 I might change my mind...

Happy twenty-eighth, first Star Trek movie! It'll be twenty-nine years young when the tenth film hits theatres... and after that point it'll be lying about its age.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Don't trust any film over 30.

 

[Rat Boy]

Kegek Kringle said:
Happy twenty-eighth, first Star Trek movie! It'll be twenty-nine years young when the tenth film hits theatres... and after that point it'll be lying about its age.

And people might believe it after the work it had done a few years back.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

First thing that popped into my head when i read this thread title...

Well it was 28 years ago today,
Gene Roddenberry brought the cast back to play,
They've been going in and out of style,
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile,
So may I introduce to you,
The cast you've known for all these years,
Star trek original TV show cast band!

I have no idea why....

 

[WillsBabe]

I feel soo damn old. I remember it like yesterday. Well, more like the day before yesterday, but you get the idea. I still love this film, often for more reasons than what's on the celluloid.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I just may have heard the movie in utereo... I was just over two months away from coming into the world...

 

[Kryton]

I was standing in line...7th in line, for 3 hours in the freezing cold.

And it was good. Oh, it was good. Saw it 3 or 4 more times during its run at the local 90-foot curved screen Cinerama theater! They even had the Bally TMP pinball machine in the lobby!

 

[Philo]

Kryton Kryngle said:
Saw it 3 or 4 more times during its run at the local 90-foot curved screen Cinerama theater!

This makes me cry for being T-minus three years old at the time.

 

[Gertch]

I was never a big theater goer but I did see this. Probably dragged my friend Augusto along and I don't think any of the other friends liked Trek. And I wouldn't have gone opening night and probably on the one time.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I still have the movie's novelization siting in my book shelf. I bought it when the movie came out. It was one of the first novels I ever read.

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Me, too! I read it on the beach. I have a distinct memory of reading it from cover to cover, turning it over and reading it again, straight away! I was young and Trek was scarce! I never dreamed back in those days that I'd ever be able to have the film, itself, there on my self for whenever I wanted to see it.

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

I was 16 years old at the time and very excited to see it. In fact I saw it 2 different times, once with friends and another with family. I remember watching Bill Shatner on the "Tonight Show" interviewed by Johnny Carson about this film either on Thursday, Dec. 06, 1979 or Friday, Dec. 07, 1979. I'm not sure which night it was and I know Shatner appeared that Friday Night at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., for the premiere. Shatner might have said he just flew in from the DC premiere to be on the "Tonight Show". During the interview I think Shatner said he had recently done some more filming for this film a month or so ago of some short scenes that needed to be done or redone. They showed a clip, I think it was the scene where Spock first arrives onboard the Enterprise, where Kirk says "Mr. Spock welcome aboard" and Spock says nothing and leaves the bridge for engineering. If anyone has a link to this interview I would appreciate it if you would post it.

Anyway, here is a link to my post in the Trek BBS "Trek Gaming" Board in which I posted screen shots created from within the computer game "Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Volume 1". I recreated scenes from this film using this computer game in celebration of this anniversary.


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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[Kryton]

I have a first-printing of the novelization within 15 feet of me. :thumbsup: (I read it two days before the movie premiered.)

 

[Plum]

Navigator_NCC2120 said:
I was 16 years old at the time and very excited to see it. In fact I saw it 2 different times, once with friends and another with family. I remember watching Bill Shatner on the "Tonight Show" interviewed by Johnny Carson about this film either on Thursday, Dec. 06, 1979 or Friday, Dec. 07, 1979. I'm not sure which night it was and I know Shatner appeared that Friday Night at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., for the premiere. Shatner might have said he just flew in from the DC premiere to be on the "Tonight Show". During the interview I think Shatner said he had recently done some more filming for this film a month or so ago of some short scenes that needed to be done or redone. They showed a clip, I think it was the scene where Spock first arrives onboard the Enterprise, where Kirk says "Mr. Spock welcome aboard" and Spock says nothing and leaves the bridge for engineering. If anyone has a link to this interview I would appreciate it if you would post it.

Anyway, here is a link to my post in the Trek BBS "Trek Gaming" Board in which I posted screen shots created from within the computer game "Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Volume 1". I recreated scenes from this film using this computer game in celebration of this anniversary.


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
/\

You know, in sequence, these pics are actually fun to go through! The Klingon vs. V'ger bit is great! Nice work, it's fun on the cheap.

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

Plum said:
You know, in sequence, these pics are actually fun to go through! The Klingon vs. V'ger bit is great! Nice work, it's fun on the cheap.

Plum,

Thanks. I enjoyed every minute of setting up those shots, it was pure escapism. I plan on adding a few more screen shots: Enterprise leaving Earth, Jupiter Flyby, Blowing up the asteroid before it collides with Enterprise, and the Vulcan Shuttle Surak docking with Enterprise.


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
/\

 

[Valin]

Jolly Jack Bauer said:
I still have the movie's novelization siting in my book shelf. I bought it when the movie came out. It was one of the first novels I ever read.

I lent it to a girl at school. Never did get it back.

 

[sbk1234]

I remember when it first came out, people were commenting on how old everyone in the cast looked then. Times change, don't they?

 

[Brutal Strudel]

North Pole-aris said:
..."Star Trek: The Motion Picture" premiered to the public, on December 7, 1979.

Or, as Majel Barrett put it on one occasion: "That's the day a lot of bombs fell."

Good old Majel "Casting Couch Cootch" Roddenberry. I really wish she'd keep her yap shut (unless, of course, Family Guy needs her to do the computer voice again).

 

[Therin of Andor]

Brutal Strudel said:
I really wish she'd keep her yap shut

Whenever a reporter asks her a question, she should say, "No comment"? I don't know many ST fans who'd tolerate that, and they'd attribute all manner of hyperthetical reasons as to why she chose silence.