What was the first ST movie you ever saw in theaters?
- Thread starter HarryCanyon1982
- Start date
As a boy with my family on Friday December 7th 1979. 
The Undiscovered Country was the first Star Trek movie I saw in theaters, although I don't remember my experience for I was only a few months old. As for the first Star Trek movie I remember seeing in theater has got to be First Contact. I don't think I saw Generations, even though I watched it a lot on VHS.
I know I felt sad.
I felt numb, honestly. The loss of the Enterprise didn't seem very important to anyone.
I felt numb, honestly. The loss of the Enterprise didn't seem very important to anyone.
Agree.
Generations had two senseless deaths both 1701-D and Kirk.
A
Amaris
Guest
Even though I have been a big fan since 1984, circumstances always prevented me from seeing any films until Star Trek: Nemesis, which was my first Star Trek film to be seen in the theater. While I find the movie mediocre at best, it holds a special place because it was my first big screen Trek outing.
Insurrection. I was 14. I remember thinking that it was like a TNG episode blown up to be a movie, and I liked that. I still do. It's not perfect but it's not horrible. My friend and I laughed at the joystick driving of the Ent-E.
My first post in years! This place feels like old times.
My ST movie in the theater was TSFS. I was 13. I was so blown away. The ship, though battered, looked magnificent on the big screen. I could feel the sound rumbling all around me. To me, at that time, TSFS was the best movie I could ever see in a theater.
My ST movie in the theater was TSFS. I was 13. I was so blown away. The ship, though battered, looked magnificent on the big screen. I could feel the sound rumbling all around me. To me, at that time, TSFS was the best movie I could ever see in a theater.
TSFS was pretty awesome at the cinema wasn't it. was like a huge 'star wars' space epic at the time - multiple new ships, an ultra realistic looking gargantuan space station that dwarfs the normally massive ships, a planet wide journey through multiple seasons, huge space battles with ships realistically exploding, the destruction of a huge starship - burning in the heavens like a falling star, a fight to the death amongst the biblical level planet destruction, a huge ship landing on a rock based alien planet like something out of a SF painting
and people still to this day say its one of the bad ones
Last edited:
TSFS was pretty awesome at the cinema wasn't it. was like a huge 'star wars' space epic at the time - multiple new ships, an ultra realistic looking gargantuan space station that dwarfs the normally massive ships, a planet wide journey through multiple seasons, huge space battles with ships realistically exploding, the destruction of a huge starship - burning in the heavens like a falling star, a fight to the death amongst the biblical level planet destruction, a huge ship landing on a rock based alien planet like something out of a SF painting
and people still to this day say its one of the bad ones
As I recall, it was quite well-received at the time. Our local city newspaper gave it a rave review and called it the best TREK movie to date . . ..
And I remember seeing it on opening night at a special showing that had been bought out by a local Trek fan club. Everybody seemed to love it.
Amazing Spider-Man and ST:TMP by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Amazing Spider-Man and ST:TMP, part 2 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Amazing Spider-Man and ST:TMP, part 3 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Seeing that comic-book version of a Star Trek movie marquee reminded me of one that I saw in 1982 while driving in Philadelphia - it was the Esquire theater just north of Broad & Olney, more recently a shoe store:
(Winfield and Besch should be on the same baseline, but I couldn't achieve the space between their names otherwise.)
As for the poll question: TMP in 1979 (twice) at the Fox theater, center-city Philadelphia. It was torn down in 1980 for an office tower. (The Fox was big enough to accommodate Cinerama; I saw 2001 there when I was very young, in 1968.)
STAR TREK II
PAUL WINFIELD
BIBI BESCH
(Winfield and Besch should be on the same baseline, but I couldn't achieve the space between their names otherwise.)
As for the poll question: TMP in 1979 (twice) at the Fox theater, center-city Philadelphia. It was torn down in 1980 for an office tower. (The Fox was big enough to accommodate Cinerama; I saw 2001 there when I was very young, in 1968.)
Similar threads
