*Not " Stargate" order - star date order.
Welcome Fellow Trekkies! The GTD Get to Know You thread
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Hello! I am a new member of Trekbbs, having joined a couple of days ago. I am 18 and have been a Star Trek fan since 3rd grade. My favorite show has to be Voyager, though I love Lower Decks too! I also love starship modeling. I finished making DS9 and a Romulan Warbird this summer. I just started college and have my Klingon flag flying in my dorm room. I can't seem to find anyone who likes Star Trek at my college besides my brother. I really want to start a Star Trek club, but I have no idea where to start. Anyway, I look forward to seeing what's out there on Trekbbs.
A BBS brings back some memories!
I'm almost exactly as old as TNG (A single-digit number of episodes had aired before I was born, and my parents rushed home from the hospital to catch that week's.), and I've been hooked on Star Trek ever since.
I remember my first exposure to the wider internet was someone showing me a post on one of the old modem-based BBSs, and I visited the startrek.com so often I got it blacklisted at school.
I have a passing (semi-professional) interest in online community formation and evolution, and I've experienced a number of different iterations of that phenomenon in the context of Trek, so I'm looking forward to observing and participating here.
I'm almost exactly as old as TNG (A single-digit number of episodes had aired before I was born, and my parents rushed home from the hospital to catch that week's.), and I've been hooked on Star Trek ever since.
I remember my first exposure to the wider internet was someone showing me a post on one of the old modem-based BBSs, and I visited the startrek.com so often I got it blacklisted at school.
I have a passing (semi-professional) interest in online community formation and evolution, and I've experienced a number of different iterations of that phenomenon in the context of Trek, so I'm looking forward to observing and participating here.
I keep wanting to ask where the Warez are if this is a BBS? Games? Vids? Software?
context - I phone dialed into BBS sites with my whopping fast 2400 baud modem back in the 80s. Took all night for a few hundred meg movie - most likely interrupted by someone wanting to use the phone - or a few minutes for DOS games.
context - I phone dialed into BBS sites with my whopping fast 2400 baud modem back in the 80s. Took all night for a few hundred meg movie - most likely interrupted by someone wanting to use the phone - or a few minutes for DOS games.
OML also am 18 nice to find someone the same age as me on here
Hello!
My name is Iggy, i've been getting into star trek for the past few months, my mam's boyfriend got me into it, finny enough for his birthday I got him a TOS communicator!
Anyway, I have been (slowly) but surely getting through the star trek series' I've watches TOS seasons and the TOS movies and now I am on TNG, so fair TNG is my favourite! I'm only on season 3 but I am already obsessed!
My favourite characters are Spock, obviously, he's iconic, than I really do like a lot of the charatcers in TNG it's a bit hard to choose a favourite, buttttt if I had to i'd prolly say Riker or Data, or geordi wait or worf, it's so hard to pick a favourite....
Anyway I think that is all really!
Iggy Out!
My name is Iggy, i've been getting into star trek for the past few months, my mam's boyfriend got me into it, finny enough for his birthday I got him a TOS communicator!
Anyway, I have been (slowly) but surely getting through the star trek series' I've watches TOS seasons and the TOS movies and now I am on TNG, so fair TNG is my favourite! I'm only on season 3 but I am already obsessed!
My favourite characters are Spock, obviously, he's iconic, than I really do like a lot of the charatcers in TNG it's a bit hard to choose a favourite, buttttt if I had to i'd prolly say Riker or Data, or geordi wait or worf, it's so hard to pick a favourite....
Anyway I think that is all really!
Iggy Out!
Hello, Trekkies.
Just starting on this forum and I guarantee you I am a full blooded Trek fan.
Ever since I was a young. Started with the Wars of the Stars, and I recall seeing a few episodes of TNG in my youth, I didn't know what was going on though.
Then, one day my brother and myself saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture on TV, it was half done. But one day with our father, we rented it and were quite amazed.
Boy as young as we were, we weren't ready for the epicness that is Wrath of Khan. And upon watching Spock succumb to the radiation, I kid you not, I cried my eyes out. I was coming to like him and just like that gone. My brother and I have seen all of movies 1-6. Fret not, around '95, we finally got into the Original Series.
During my mid school years, I watched the first two seasons and around 2/3 of Season 3 of TNG, which I still christen my fav Trek series. My brother and I have seen a majority of Deep Space Nine, not all. We started at the start of the season when Michael Dorn's Worf became a regular. We've seen a handful of Voyager. I barely gave Enterprise any notion, my brother watched it and IMHO feel I dodged a bullet. It just didn't grab me.
Did you know I played Star Trek Starfleet Academy on the PC, with the live action cutscenes of Kirk, Sulu and Chekov? No foolin'. I never finished the game but replaying the same missions again and again with a joystick controller was just so fun.
First Trek film I saw in theaters was THE Star Trek: First Contact and I was 12, the Borg scenes really made me shutter. But it's still my fav of the films. I unfortunately saw Insurrection, it was...decent. I'm thankful I didn't see Nemesis in theaters. And upon renting it on DVD, I was sad...my fav character Data, did the sacrifice play. A noble deed, but I was upset. Nemesis felt like a shallow curtain call to the TNG cast.
I wish to read novels and visualize the continuing adventures. Unfortunately, since then nearly all of them were written off as apocryphal.
Sad as I am to admit, as the years came and went as I got older Trek was...becoming kind of stale. And while I did see the '09 film, afterwards it just didn't sit well with me. And thus, after glancing through the novelization of Star Trek Online: The Needs of The Many. And with the novels declared non canon along with a vast majority of any RPG, video games or anything in between. It was with a heavy heart I secretly parted ways with the franchise, and went on with my life; occasionally having a nostalgic memory or two. I felt the well had run dry and Trek was a dying horse.
I got into Seth McFarlane's The Orville in its premiere, really captured the Trek spirit for me at the time. I became a fan, but after the pandemic and waiting for the next season, I Iet it go. Sure, it had its own universe with adventures, lessons and sci-fi stuff galore, but looking back, I almost feel like I took it in to somehow fill the Trek void hole in my heart. I reminisced some memories.
Three years ago,my brother was still a Trekkie purchased Paramount +, to see some of the new series' that have been released ie Strange New Worlds. I paid no mind. Then one day, when I got off of work, I entered our apartment and saw on our TV screen and a red outlined clock saying ONE WEEK LATER, an animated Trek series. I heard of it "Star Trek Lower Decks" but didn't pay any attention to it. The episode was "Temporal Edict" and I decided to give it a glance. Well my curiosity intrigued me and upon seeing the first season...the old Trek fan candle in my heart was relit. And after finishing Season 2, the light returned to its former glory and I got back into Trek, awaiting the third season at the time (2022), all the good stuff.
Picard Season 2 had ended and I heard from my brother that the third and final season was going to reunite the entire Next Generation cast and crew. I was unceratin at first but I felt for old times sake, I'll give it a watch.
Picard Season 3 took me a while to grasp on it, but it got better as it progressed. And by the time the final episode aired, a younger version of myself inside me, cried tears of joy and satisfaction. it was a sendoff well worth the wait. And I was content. Yes, Jack has been told by Q, his trial was about to begin. What will happen? Not sure, but I'll let history play out. Still staying with Lower Decks and I've occasionally seen a couple episodes of Strange New Worlds, EVEN the one my brother wished to see that crossed over with Lower Decks. It was a saga, guaranteed!
I rewatched TOS and TNG episodes to refresh my memory, some ones I've seen before and ones I have not.
Like a Phoenix (and not Zefram Cochrane's first wrap drive craft) I was proud to know the Trek fan in me had not died.
A couple of you would ask "I thought you said the well had run dry?"
And with pride, and honest to truth from the heart talking, I paraphrase from the bad STV The Final Frontier, but I liked Shatner's delivery of it, and I say it with utmost confidence, certainty and in the same tone as Shatner said it:
It takes a big person to admit something like that. And I am a big person.
Also, one last quote, like David at the end of Wrath of Khan, I will admit I'm "Proud...very proud to be a Trekkie!" continuing to boldly go where no man...where no one has gone before.
(Just a bit of history to get the ball rolling, I will be sharing more in due time).
Just starting on this forum and I guarantee you I am a full blooded Trek fan.
Ever since I was a young. Started with the Wars of the Stars, and I recall seeing a few episodes of TNG in my youth, I didn't know what was going on though.
Then, one day my brother and myself saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture on TV, it was half done. But one day with our father, we rented it and were quite amazed.
Boy as young as we were, we weren't ready for the epicness that is Wrath of Khan. And upon watching Spock succumb to the radiation, I kid you not, I cried my eyes out. I was coming to like him and just like that gone. My brother and I have seen all of movies 1-6. Fret not, around '95, we finally got into the Original Series.
During my mid school years, I watched the first two seasons and around 2/3 of Season 3 of TNG, which I still christen my fav Trek series. My brother and I have seen a majority of Deep Space Nine, not all. We started at the start of the season when Michael Dorn's Worf became a regular. We've seen a handful of Voyager. I barely gave Enterprise any notion, my brother watched it and IMHO feel I dodged a bullet. It just didn't grab me.
Did you know I played Star Trek Starfleet Academy on the PC, with the live action cutscenes of Kirk, Sulu and Chekov? No foolin'. I never finished the game but replaying the same missions again and again with a joystick controller was just so fun.
First Trek film I saw in theaters was THE Star Trek: First Contact and I was 12, the Borg scenes really made me shutter. But it's still my fav of the films. I unfortunately saw Insurrection, it was...decent. I'm thankful I didn't see Nemesis in theaters. And upon renting it on DVD, I was sad...my fav character Data, did the sacrifice play. A noble deed, but I was upset. Nemesis felt like a shallow curtain call to the TNG cast.
I wish to read novels and visualize the continuing adventures. Unfortunately, since then nearly all of them were written off as apocryphal.
Sad as I am to admit, as the years came and went as I got older Trek was...becoming kind of stale. And while I did see the '09 film, afterwards it just didn't sit well with me. And thus, after glancing through the novelization of Star Trek Online: The Needs of The Many. And with the novels declared non canon along with a vast majority of any RPG, video games or anything in between. It was with a heavy heart I secretly parted ways with the franchise, and went on with my life; occasionally having a nostalgic memory or two. I felt the well had run dry and Trek was a dying horse.
I got into Seth McFarlane's The Orville in its premiere, really captured the Trek spirit for me at the time. I became a fan, but after the pandemic and waiting for the next season, I Iet it go. Sure, it had its own universe with adventures, lessons and sci-fi stuff galore, but looking back, I almost feel like I took it in to somehow fill the Trek void hole in my heart. I reminisced some memories.
Three years ago,my brother was still a Trekkie purchased Paramount +, to see some of the new series' that have been released ie Strange New Worlds. I paid no mind. Then one day, when I got off of work, I entered our apartment and saw on our TV screen and a red outlined clock saying ONE WEEK LATER, an animated Trek series. I heard of it "Star Trek Lower Decks" but didn't pay any attention to it. The episode was "Temporal Edict" and I decided to give it a glance. Well my curiosity intrigued me and upon seeing the first season...the old Trek fan candle in my heart was relit. And after finishing Season 2, the light returned to its former glory and I got back into Trek, awaiting the third season at the time (2022), all the good stuff.
Picard Season 2 had ended and I heard from my brother that the third and final season was going to reunite the entire Next Generation cast and crew. I was unceratin at first but I felt for old times sake, I'll give it a watch.
Picard Season 3 took me a while to grasp on it, but it got better as it progressed. And by the time the final episode aired, a younger version of myself inside me, cried tears of joy and satisfaction. it was a sendoff well worth the wait. And I was content. Yes, Jack has been told by Q, his trial was about to begin. What will happen? Not sure, but I'll let history play out. Still staying with Lower Decks and I've occasionally seen a couple episodes of Strange New Worlds, EVEN the one my brother wished to see that crossed over with Lower Decks. It was a saga, guaranteed!
I rewatched TOS and TNG episodes to refresh my memory, some ones I've seen before and ones I have not.
Like a Phoenix (and not Zefram Cochrane's first wrap drive craft) I was proud to know the Trek fan in me had not died.
A couple of you would ask "I thought you said the well had run dry?"
And with pride, and honest to truth from the heart talking, I paraphrase from the bad STV The Final Frontier, but I liked Shatner's delivery of it, and I say it with utmost confidence, certainty and in the same tone as Shatner said it:
It takes a big person to admit something like that. And I am a big person.
Also, one last quote, like David at the end of Wrath of Khan, I will admit I'm "Proud...very proud to be a Trekkie!" continuing to boldly go where no man...where no one has gone before.
(Just a bit of history to get the ball rolling, I will be sharing more in due time).
Well, hi there.
Everything in my welcome post, straight honest truth, I am a Trekkie.
Everything in my welcome post, straight honest truth, I am a Trekkie.
Hi! I'm Groovy, I'm longtime fan of TNG, longtime interested party in Trek. I still have a lot to watch though!
One tidbit, I've had a life size cardboard cutout of Picard in my home for over 20 years. A memento from a party, and also, he's Picard so classes up the joint.
A message board on some kind of Star Trek! Long live the Trek!
One tidbit, I've had a life size cardboard cutout of Picard in my home for over 20 years. A memento from a party, and also, he's Picard so classes up the joint.
A message board on some kind of Star Trek! Long live the Trek!
You two should chime in on this thread...
Do people under 40 care about Star Trek?
I am turning 50 this November. Grew up watching TNG and then continued watching DS9 and Voyager. My wife's parents grew up with TOS. Sadly, that generation is getting older and older. The Trekkies I personally know are all around my age or older. When I think of co-workers in 30's or...
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