From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Happy 30th Anniversary ST:TMP!  - your memories?   
      
   On 12/8/2009 2:38 AM, rikp@aol.com wrote:   
   >   
   > Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released December 7, 1979, making   
   > today the 30th anniversary of its release, and the end of the longest   
   > drought in Star Trek history.   
   >   
   > It might be fun to share memories, I'll go first.  I was a young teen   
   > and had been watching Star Trek for about three years, read "The   
   > Making of Star Trek," "The World of Star Trek," "The Making of   
   > Tribbles," and the "Starfleet Technical Manual" many times over,   
   > collected the action figures and the bridge set, and built all of the   
   > AMT models (including Spock fighting the 3-headed snake) and   
   > frequently wore a "Keep on Trekkin'" button.  When ST:TMP was   
   > announced I was, naturally, excited and all I'd seen up until its   
   > release were some photographs of the new Enterprise and costumes, and   
   > a clip on Good Morning America of Spock's first appearance on the   
   > bridge.   
      
   Yep, prior to seeing the movie, I had read a sneak preview in one of the    
   tabloids.  V'ger was only described as an "awesome third force" that had    
   attacked both the Klingons and the Big E.   
      
   I got to see the movie at a Showcase Cinema in Connecticut.  But the    
   plot was so slow, and so boring in spots, that I actually fell asleep in    
   the theater during the sequence where the Big E penetrates the cloud to    
   confront the V'ger machine.  Fortunately, a friend was there with me and    
   woke me up to see the rest fo the movie.   
      
   Interestingly, my mom, who had never seen any Star Trek before, went to    
   see it at some theater in New York and she fell in love with the ship.   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
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