How Long Have You Been A Fan?
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Summer of 1993 when I was falling in love with TNG in syndicated repeats between seasons 6 and 7.
November 28, 1975 was when I first watched an entire episode ("By Any Other Name"). I bought my first two Blish books on December 6, 1975 (#4 and #6). At that point I was hooked.
I've been a fan since before your sun burned hot! (or the 90s; whichever came second). It started out as something my dad and cousin were into, then I caved. Lost him a decade later and since then it's always been a part of my life. Not to mention my fan fiction addiction. Oy vey: Star Trek: Phoenix-X
I was 9, and it seems like yesterday, and a million yesterdays. We would have played Star Trek together, I bet!
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When I was maybe 9/10 one of my teachers put on a VHS of Voyager: Lifesigns/Investigations for...some reason. After that I started taping VOY/DS9, watched ENT & Nemesis when they came around, then got into the other series when I was old enough to buy them myself/they finally got a dvd release around here that was under 100$.
So maybe from around 1998/1999? Seemingly at the beginning of the end.
So maybe from around 1998/1999? Seemingly at the beginning of the end.
Since the premier of TNG.
I was nine years old, in 1989. I had seen the first three movies at some point on TV and was vaguely aware of what Trek was, but without any great interest.
Then we rented the VHS of TNG's "Encounter At Farpoint" (note - TNG wasn't shown on TV here in the UK until 1990). We kids were allowed to rent a video once a week on a Friday evening; I don't remember why we chose this tape, but we did.
And I loved it.
Not sure I completely understood it all, but I enjoyed it, and when BBC2 finally started showing TNG in September 1990 I was onboard, every Wednesday at 6pm.
I stayed with Trek for many years, sort of drifting out of it by circa 2000. I enjoyed TNG and DS9, watched the first couple of seasons of Voyager, but then gradually just lost touch with it all.
I gradually got back into Trek in around 2007 (20th anniversary of TNG, rekindled my interest) - by then I was introducing my wife to TNG and DS9. She enjoyed both. Tried Voyager once again, but my wife didn't like it. We jumped ahead to Enterprise, which I had never seen, and we both enjoyed it very much.
Now my fandom is pretty light touch - I come on here most days, but I don't buy much merchandise outside the occasion Trek-related magazine.
TNG remains my favourite, and always will be!
Then we rented the VHS of TNG's "Encounter At Farpoint" (note - TNG wasn't shown on TV here in the UK until 1990). We kids were allowed to rent a video once a week on a Friday evening; I don't remember why we chose this tape, but we did.
And I loved it.
Not sure I completely understood it all, but I enjoyed it, and when BBC2 finally started showing TNG in September 1990 I was onboard, every Wednesday at 6pm.
I stayed with Trek for many years, sort of drifting out of it by circa 2000. I enjoyed TNG and DS9, watched the first couple of seasons of Voyager, but then gradually just lost touch with it all.
I gradually got back into Trek in around 2007 (20th anniversary of TNG, rekindled my interest) - by then I was introducing my wife to TNG and DS9. She enjoyed both. Tried Voyager once again, but my wife didn't like it. We jumped ahead to Enterprise, which I had never seen, and we both enjoyed it very much.
Now my fandom is pretty light touch - I come on here most days, but I don't buy much merchandise outside the occasion Trek-related magazine.
TNG remains my favourite, and always will be!
But I like to think I'm giving you a run for your money!
Nope, just children of the fifties!
Born in 1978 I´m a child of the 80ies and 90ies. Over 20 years of ST experience feel like an eternity. And look who has died since: DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard....... I can see the passing of time by observing different hair styles and fashion come and go. I´m glad, the characters played by the actors are kept alive in the novels. Now I´m getting nostalgic. 
I became a fan in the early 1970's, perhaps 1972 or so. I started watching Star Trek in syndication. I'm certain I saw episodes during the original run but I was too young to really appreciate them. By 1972, I was ten and Star Trek caught my imagination in a big way. Suddenly "Lost In Space" seemed so juvenile and Star Trek seemed so grown up!
I was born in 1971, my father was a 27-year-old Original Gangsta Trekkie, helped along by the fact that when he had a Vandyke beard at that age, he looked an AWFUL lot like Mirror Spock (and his personality was generally Spockish as well - very rational, very emotionally controlled), so I was exposed pretty early. I remember watching Star Trek as a child on an INCREDIBLY grainy VHF station out of Pittsburgh, some time after school, so I probably started around age 5 or so. The first episode I have a specific memory of is "Devil in the Dark."
I always find it interesting as well honestly. I think the reason TOS and TNG (But TOS more so) hit so close to home for me is the fact that TOS was the show my dad always loved the most, and about a year after he died and I was looking back at some of our memories I always remembered his fondness for both Star Wars and ST. As a kid (like almost every other kid in the US) I had seen all the Star Wars movies, I just wasn't a fan. So upon looking back on my father I decided to watch the ST TOS series, partly in his memory. I had no idea how hooked I would become. He watched it back in the 60's when it first aired on T.V. My mom on the other hand was never a ST fan. She watched the episodes here and there as a kid when they first aired, but she was more of a Twilight Zone person. Either way it's almost like TOS is more sentimental to me because of that. I can see all the episodes my dad used to love, understand why he favored one character to another, plus I finally understood the hand signal my dad taught me to give people as a kid haha (Vulcan hand salute)@ Brie:
Quite a story!
Aww. It must be a bit strange for mr. Shatner
What I like about your story is that as a young person apparently you have the most affinity with TOS. I do wonder why you like Star Trek more than other shows and movies. There is a lot of good stuff out there.
I got hooked as a young kid with TNG and it's exploration, in 1992 or something.
haha if my dad was still alive he'd be arguing HE was
Nope, just children of the fifties!
haha if my dad was still alive he'd be arguing HE wasAre you both joined Trill?
Nope, just children of the fifties!
And it was my dad who introduced me to Trek, back when I was only seven or so.
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