OMG, I had totally forgotten about the Leonard Nimoy intro!!
I read your response and was like, "Huh?", then it hit me. That's easily a 30 year old memory sitting in deep storage. I haven't been there, or thought about it since college. The human brain is amazing.
And since we live in the future, I can easily find a clip of it online:
The helicopter intro was the best.
"These people wanna see a lobstah!"
"Who put the bomp in the bomp sha bomp!"
I too had a similar reaction the first time I saw an imax.