Movie night was a tradition aboard Enterprise in which the mess hall periodically became a movie hall playing films for the crew. Regular attendees included Doctor Phlox (who went for the Human reactions rather than the movie), T'Pol, Charles Tucker III, and Elizabeth Cutler. (ENT: "Dear Doctor", et al.) Malcolm Reed, Hoshi Sato and Travis Mayweather are also known to have attended on occassion. (ENT: "Cold Front")
At first, movie night was every Tuesday. (ENT: "The Catwalk") Later they changed the weekly schedule and shifted the presentation to Monday. (ENT: "Hatchery")
The motion picture library in the ship's database had fifty thousand titles to choose from, which could be divided up into genres such as adventure, comedy, horror, musical, science fiction, thriller, and western. (ENT: "Cold Front", "Cogenitor")
Films known to have been shown on movie night include:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
- Sunset Boulevard (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
- The Wages of Fear (ENT: "Vox Sola")
- The Day the Earth Stood Still, albeit on a monitor in compartment 5 of the Enterprise catwalk (ENT: "The Catwalk")
- Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein, "the three greatest horror movies ever made" (ENT: "Horizon")
- The Bride of Chaotica, shown on a monitor (ENT: "Cogenitor")
- Rosemary's Baby (ENT: "Twilight")
Trip Tucker intended to show Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein on movie night, but it is unknown whether he was successful in doing so. (ENT: "Horizon")
Tucker also forced Phlox to watch The Exorcist, which may have been on a movie night. (ENT: "Doctor's Orders")
When Phlox was running the Enterprise as the rest of the crew was in stasis due to a transdimensional disturbance, he watched The Court Jester alone for movie night. (ENT: "Doctor's Orders")