Your Trek Anniversary?

[Nardpuncher]

I consider August 31st 1986 my Trek anniversary. It was that day that I bought issue #33 of DC comics Star Trek. I of course knew about Trek and had seen about a dozen episodes and saw TWOK on TV, but it was that comic that somehow triggered my fanhood.
Do you have any specific date or one time when you knew you were now a fan?

 

[sbk1234]

I don't know about a specific date, but it was TWOK that converted me from conservative to orthadox Trekkie.

 

[jim hadar]

September 1966!

 

[RandyS]

Thanks to my mom, who was in high school when TOS was in first run, I've been a fan forever. So, April 17, 1970 is my anniversary.

 

[AstroSmurf]

I would have to say summer of 1981. I was only six and sleeping over at my cousin's house. We watched "Obsession" on his little tiny black & white portable tele that he had in his bedroom. I was transfixed. I had seen TMP, a smattering of TOS and a some of the animated series before then but I had never actually paid all that much attention to it.

Then I saw TWOK a year or so later and that sealed the deal. I was hooked. Basically I have been a junkie for almost thirty years now.

 

[Cali]

Either lateish 2001 or early 2002, I can't quite remember. It started with Voyager though, partway through season 6.

 

[Dale]

I have it on good (parental) authority that I watched the first episode on my father's lap on September 8, 1966 when I was not quite two years old. Star Trek has always been part of my life and I cannot remember a time when I did not love it. So my fandom is as old as the show itself.

 

[Amy Sisson]

If I can figure out the specific dates of the 1991 I-Con convention in Stony Brook, New York, then I have the date of my Trek anniversary. It's probably in April.

I graduated from college in 1990, and a college friend persuaded me to come visit him on Long Island in 1991 to go to I-Con. Majel Barrett was a guest there, and she brought the Next Gen episode "Q-pid" to show the convention members, before it was actually aired on TV. That evening back at his house, my friend showed me several more of his favorite Next Gen episodes, and then he made me take home everything he had videotaped. I watched 3 seasons in about 3 weeks and that was it for me.

I dedicated my first Strange New Worlds story (vol. VII) to my friend.

 

[drasche]

Mine should be the day I went to the theatre to watch First Contact (I should still have the ticket). Or maybe the day I bought the first TNG season 1 box set when it was first released. Before those events, I watched Star Trek as I would watch any scifi series (yes, yes, blasphemy, I know )

 

[Orac Zen]

Whenever it was that I decided to watch TSFS on TV instead of studying for end-of-year uni exams (one must prioritise, after all). I'd been aware of Trek for years but that was the thing that converted me from casual viewer to Trek fan.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Do you have any specific date or one time when you knew you were now a fan?

December 15, 1979. My 21st birthday party, the day after my actual birthday. A friend gave a vivid account of his attendance at the Sydney gala premiere of ST:TMP, after I'd spent the week reading serialized newspaper articles about an Australian journalist's visit to the ST set.

There was footage on TV news of Persis Khambatta and DeForest Kelley's visit to Sydney to promote the film, and the novelization in racks at supermarket checkouts. (The UK and Aussie printings have a section in the middle of glossy pics!) I read the book while waiting for someone to agree to come to the movies with me, but ended up going by myself.

I'd previously seen only about twelve TAS episodes and five TOS episodes, but the publicity for TMP was what made me a fan.

 

[Flibble]

I think mine is September 1976 when I went to my first Trek convention.
I couldn't believe that there were so many other people who shared my love of all things Star Trek!

 

[Gepard]

Oh, wow. My intro to Trek was so long ago, I have no idea when it was. The only thing I remember was sneaking to the TV when my parents were in another room or outside, and turning it on to stare at these funny people in bright clothing who shot light beams from their fingers. IIRC, it was first-run TNG from the first or second season, so it must have been '87 or '88.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Oh, wow. My intro to Trek was so long ago, I have no idea when it was. The only thing I remember was sneaking to the TV when my parents were in another room or outside, and turning it on to stare at these funny people in bright clothing who shot light beams from their fingers. IIRC, it was first-run TNG from the first or second season, so it must have been '87 or '88.

You may be our first TNG one in this thread. I'll guess that the reason you thought htey were firing fro their fingers was because they were using the type II 'cricket' phaser.

 

[Krieg1981]

It was when My uncle sent me a finished, painted model of the Enterprise, 1701 when I was 4. I treated that thing like it was real! At that point, Star Trek TSFS was the newest movie, and TOS was the only thing to watch on tv....1985! That was the impetus for me. The tape with TWOK and TSFS helped too!

 

[Basill]

Summer of '84 for me. I had seen TMP on TV and thought it was pretty cool but the Original Series didn't really jazz me up at the time. I had totally missed TWOK, theatrically and I even told a friend who wouldn't shut up about it that I thought Trek was lame and that Star Wars ruled. For me it did... until June of '84. Then I went with a friend to see TSFS and Lucas's world was dethroned for more than a decade in my mind. I then was able to reevaluate TOS and TMP and realize they had so much more than I realized, and when TWOK first aired on ABC it was a major event for me.

While TNG and followers were on the air they were great, but Kirk era still is the best in my mind. These days Star Trek and Star Wars co-throne my brain and I go through "seasons" where one has dominance. That's just because I like diversity, but they are still my two favorite of all the genre cows out there.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

December 10, 2002 is when I really got into Star Trek. I'd always watched it here or there, but when Mom and Dad gave me the DVD of TWOK as an early Christmas gift, it sealed the deal for me.

 

[anais]

December 1997, watched Future's End, Worst Case Scenario and Scorpion. I had followed TNG and seen some DS9 before then but that's where I took the step from casual viewer to fan.

 

[Keith1701]

September 1966!

September 8, 1966

 

[Jeri]

September 1966!

Me, too; just starting freshman year in high school.