Making a popular TV series into a big-screen movie used to be a rarity. More typically, things went the other way. Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” begets Alan Alda’s.
But back in 1979, my first Christmas-movie-madness season with the AJC, one such, um, miracle loomed ahead. Thanks to a determined and dedicated fan base, after disappearing from sight for a decade, “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” was upon us. I wasn’t a Trekkie per se, (to paraphrase Charlie Chaplin when someone asked if…
