Oldtimers, do you feel it?

[plynch]

Other than TOS, I've never had a mental database. But for me there's TOS, then a quantum leap over or down to all the others, though I do like them. DS9 would be my next fave and I've only watched it twice through; once on-air, once via netflix. No way you're gonna accumulate a database like I did watching STAR TREK 5 nights a week on WKBD, Detroit! What a great childhood. Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings and Wizard of Oz once a year. Back when some things were still special. Remember the percussion music and swirling logo on CBS announcing a "special"? Before you could watch Charlie Brown Christmaas in August on dvd. We're richer but poorer in so many ways.

 

[Sector 7]

Even though I worked on Trek projects, I was never one to have all the details of every episode committed to memory. At the time they were still producing TNG, so the newer series did not yet exist. I can recall episodes by what happened in them, rather than by name or planet/system where they occurred. I had to rely heavily on the printed "bible" for the series.

As for memory in general...













...what were we talking about?

 

[Neutral Zone]

Never thought of myself as an Oldtimer before!

 

[WillsBabe]

BTW, we are in orbit around Gamma Hydra V, right?

(On a side not, I just had to look that up for the joke. *sigh*)

ROTFLMAO! No rejuvenation for us, though, I fear.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I've got nearly twenty years of Star Trek fandom under my eyes, and I can say I'm starting to feel it a little, especially with the most recent movie.

Then again it might just be all the insomnia, cigarettes, whiskey and LSD that I'm so fond of. It's one or the other.

 

[Mandra]

Let Memory Alpha be your friend.


IMO, not being able to remember every bit of Trek trivia that you used to isn't really a sign of being old, but perhaps of having more a life outside of Trek than you used to (for example, it may be more important to balance your checkbook today than what episode McCoy lost his communicator in).

A Piece of the Action.

And no, I didn't have to look it up....

But then, I'm pretty much strictly a TOS and animated Trekkie, so there's not as much info to keep straight.

Or maybe I still don't have much of a life....hmmm.

 

[Chrisisall]

We're richer but poorer in so many ways.

Oh, yes....

 

[Nardpuncher]

Sometimes whn the Trek novels come up and I tell people I've read about 170 or so...they seem surprised that I've read that many. Then I tell them that I read my first one 22 years ago!!!

 

[JustKate]

I've never been good at remembering episode titles and stuff like that. Never. So if I am starting to forget stuff that I used to know, I'm doing so subtly. Gradually. So subtly and gradually that I can ignore it or pretend it isn't happening.

 

[Ward Fowler]

I used to have an encyclopedic knowledge of TOS. However, over the last few years I seem to have forgotten a lot. I guess if you don't use it you lose it.

 

[Finn]

You know you are old when you are struggling to remember the registry numbers or Picard's first officer's name while playing trivia pursuit at the nursing home.

 

[Alrik]

My problem is the opposite. I've seen every episode of Trek ever produced (except TAS) and all of the movies many times, but until I showed up here a few years ago, I never paid much attention to the episode titles. I pretty much know what happened, when, and in which series, so finding the episodes names has been easy enough. So ironically, instead of lossing the info, I've had to learn it. But that still doesn't mean that I don't have to deal with the occasional 'Senior Moment'.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Sometimes whn the Trek novels come up and I tell people I've read about 170 or so...they seem surprised that I've read that many. Then I tell them that I read my first one 22 years ago!!!

I've known people who were surprised that others read books for pleasure at all. Sad.

 

[Neutral Zone]

Even when we forget some details have you ever noticed that we always remember our favourite episodes or bits, so it shows that we are not totally gaga yet!

 

[StarryEyed]

This thread is starting to remind me of that episode where an infirm Chakote and Neelix are trading sob stories. Appropriately enough, I can't remember the episode it was from!

 

[M'Sharak]

This thread is starting to remind me of that episode where an infirm Chakote and Neelix are trading sob stories. Appropriately enough, I can't remember the episode it was from!

This one.



M', wasn't 100% sure of the title, but has good reference resources

 

[StarryEyed]

Ah, yes. Scientific Method.

 

[Ward Fowler]

Sometimes whn the Trek novels come up and I tell people I've read about 170 or so...they seem surprised that I've read that many. Then I tell them that I read my first one 22 years ago!!!

I've known people who were surprised that others read books for pleasure at all. Sad.

I've had people express the same sort of dismay toward me. It's VERY sad.

 

[StarCruiser]

Frankly, not exactly. I'm able to remember the GOOD Trek (TOS, some TNG, DS9, Earlier movies) but frankly, the rest is naturally forgettable.

 

[I am not Spock]

I'm pretty good with episode titles. Names of planets and random aliens-of-the-week I am not so good at.

Seen every series multiple times (except TAS, which I'm trying to track down the DVD of so I can finish watching all the eps), own tonnes of DVDs including all the films (except XII which I'm hoping to pick up this week).

I was a mad Trekkie in my teens, in the mid nineties. I kind of got over it, but I am going through a bit of a Trek phase this year, thanks to the new film.