the day it was released. "Get out and get your tickets!"

Especially after the anticipation.

Wrath of Khan helped make up for it a few years later. Probably saved the franchise.

Saw it the first time. I was nine.

At that time, 1979, nearly every sci-fi fan out there was eagerly awaiting The Empire Strikes Back. It was a good time to release science fiction. Alien came out that year, but I didn’t get to see that one until I was older.

So we waited in line for hours at the old Capri Theater in Charlotte, NC to see Jim Kirk chew up the scenery, etc etc. Those were the days.

And it wasn’t Star Wars! It might not even have been Star Trek. Kirk did no scenery-chewing. As a piece of intriguing science fiction, it succeeds. But... it was boring to nine-year-old me.

Looks like she had a full body bikini waxing. Ouch!

Bring those back...

I wasn't a massive trekkie anyway. I'd seen every episode but was never a huge fan. Really liked the motion picture, though and I don't remember being bored at any time. I thought it was visually spectacular and had a genuinely interesting story to tell.