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

[SPCTRE]

First Contact, still my favorite TNG movie.

 

[HIjol]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture I was 22.

I remember thinking Kirk's hair looked funny

 

[Green Shirt]

Saw The Motion Picture on opening night.

 

[Mark R. Largent]

I saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture at a matinee sometime after its release. I think it was the summer of 1980. I was 12 at the time and remember it being very long and it seeming very unfamiliar to the Star Trek I was used to. I saw Star Trek II the opening weekend and then had the good fortune of moving to a rental house across from a drive-inn theatre and watched it nightly (minus sound) while it was showing there. Went opening day for all the others.

 

[Richard Baker]

The Motion Picture.
I had to wait for so many years to finally see it on the big screen.
People looked funny, hated the bland bridge revise, but watching the Klingon ships at the beginning was one of the best moments ever...

 

[RandyS]

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

You haven't? Why not? Couldn't afford it? Wasn't born yet? Or just never got the chance?

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

For me, i was IV when i was 4 years old when i lived in St Louis and saw it 3 times, ST II with ST the animated show on Nick and this is what made me a ST fan.

First movie was the first movie--TMP in '79.

 

[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...

 

[MANT!]

TMP opening night.. I'd just turned 18, had been in organized fandom since 1975
(Freshman year in HS) was in the USAF and enjoying every minute of my young life..

I was blown away by the effects..and watched it with the same level of interest as I did when I saw 2001 in a theater a few years before...

I feel it tried to be 2001..and Star Trek wasn't 2001 to me.. but it was still enjoyable

Since then I've seen EVERY Star Trek film in a theater.. and even though I've sometimes felt disappointed in the films..over all, they are very good...

 

[HIjol]

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!

 

[K'Toska]

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

You haven't? Why not? Couldn't afford it? Wasn't born yet? Or just never got the chance?

I only started really getting into Trek about half a year ago so I haven't had the chance yet. I'd love to see one of the older films in theaters. I'm not a fan of nuTrek but I will probably pay to see the next film at a theater when it comes out. After all, it's still Trek!

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I find myself wondering if my biological parents saw TMP in the theaters. I have always found the Goldsmith soundtrack familiar somehow. I would've been in utero at the time.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Star Trek.

No, seriously, even though I've been a Trekkie since 1992. My parents believed watching movies in theaters would send me to hell, so the first movie I saw on the big screen was The Pink Panther, in 2005, after I left home. The first Star Trek movie that came out was....Abrams'.

 

[Iamnotspock]

Star Trek.

No, seriously, even though I've been a Trekkie since 1992. My parents believed watching movies in theaters would send me to hell,

You poor thing.

I became a fan in '92 also. I wish I'd been around for some of the earlier films' releases.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Attention "Star Trek" fans in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan! "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is playing on the big screen at the beautiful Michigan Theater on August 9th and 11th, 2015!


Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the Michigan by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I was there last year, for its showcasing of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

 

[Phantom]

^Lucky guys!

The very first film I can remember seeing is TMP. The very first TV show I can remember watching was TAS.

I've been a fan for a loooooong time.

 

[HarryCanyon1982]

Attention "Star Trek" fans in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan! "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is playing on the big screen at the beautiful Michigan Theater on August 9th and 11th, 2015!


Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the Michigan by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I was there last year, for its showcasing of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

That is sooo cool.

 

[dub]

TWOK. I was 3 years old. Apparently I was a fan of all things Star Wars in my early early years. My mom thought TWOK was a Star Wars movie. She says I had nightmares about the creature in Chekov's ear.

 

[HarryCanyon1982]

TWOK. I was 3 years old. Apparently I was a fan of all things Star Wars in my early early years. My mom thought TWOK was a Star Wars movie. She says I had nightmares about the creature in Chekov's ear.

So your mom didn't know the difference between SW and ST?

 

[Amaris]

Star Trek.

No, seriously, even though I've been a Trekkie since 1992. My parents believed watching movies in theaters would send me to hell, so the first movie I saw on the big screen was The Pink Panther, in 2005, after I left home. The first Star Trek movie that came out was....Abrams'.

Wow! I thought I started late! Still, you started off with a way better film than I did.