premiere, Washington DC
December 6, 1979
On December 6, 1979, the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture held its premiere in Washington, DC.
The film had a very troubled developmental history, but Paramount was hopeful that nonetheless, the Trekkies would turn out en mass to see to the film, and by so doing bring in revenues equivalent to those being enjoyed by 20th Century Fox from Star Wars and Alien.
I saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture about a month after it premiered. By then, word had percolated around town that the film was something of a dud, so I wasn't too disappointed with it. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) was markedly better.
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