Captain Kirk's birthday

Not exactly a party, but a spectacular opening sequence to 2009's "Star Trek," directed by J.J. Abrams.  The movie begins as Captain Kirk's mother is going into labor.  However, her starship is under attack, and she, along with all cast, crew and passengers, are abandoning the doomed starship aboard small, retreating, vessels.  Kirk's father remains on board, fighting off the attack long enough to allow some people to flee to safety.  In the midst of the fight, before his destruction, Kirk's father sees his newborn son and his wife on a ship-to-ship viewing screen.  He lives long enough to see this and to tell his wife to name their newborn son after his father-in-law, Jim.  Kirk's father dies a tremendous hero, but this will be little consolation to James T. Kirk initially, and then the rest is, as they say, history, if not a popular culture phenomenon.   With all due respect to the Star Trek franchise, I think this opening scene tops it all.  It is a great action sequence full of light flashes, explosions and frenzy.  Yet the emotional impact of a father in his final moments, calm, steady, courageous, and duty-bound, facing his destruction to be witnessed by his wife and newborn child, is overwhelming.  A very good, underrated movie, overall.