Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Special Screening!

(1979) dir Robert Wise w/William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols [132 min; 35mm]
When Star Wars was released in 1977, no one knew that it would become a world-wide decades-spanning sensation – nor did they realize that it would spawn a rivalry for the ages with a certain other science fiction galaxy. Equally campy and reveling in a level of techno-babble here-to-fore unheard of in the annals of humanity, the STAR TREK narratives are grounded by one thing that Star Wars lacks – for better or worse, a direct connection to Good Old Planet Earth.