Back to SpaceCon (2011)

On February 22 1975 Northern Californias very first Star Trek convention was held at Lincoln High School in San Francisco CA It was called The Red Hour Festival A huge success with the fans of the original TV series 196669 the smash event led to much larger conventions in San Francisco Oakland and Los Angeles These SpaceCon conventions left an indelible mark on the sciencefiction fans and Trekkers who attended In the end conventions like SpaceCon helped awaken Paramount from hibernation and led to the creation of the first installment of the major motion picture series Star Trek in 1979 This fulllength documentary film is the story of how fandom revolutionized an industry