I get it...now (20 years later)

[RobertScorpio]

I started watching Star Trek when I was a young whipper snapper. And like most kids who watched I was into the 'ships' and 'phasers' and all that action stuff. Diseases to help stop over population? Who cares!!! Wandering space robots?? That was more my cup of tea.

And then I grew up. I started to realize that some of the episodes of Star Trek didn't have tons of action, just a bunch of jibber-jawing betweek Kirk and SPock and McCoy and..it had meaning. They were trying to make a point.

Has there ever been a "trek" in your viewing history that went straight over your head, but when you saw it later, you "got it"?

Rob

 

[John200]

Yeah you'll find that's normal.

I had that happen with The Original Series.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Yeah you'll find that's normal.

I had that happen with The Original Series.

For the Earth is Hollow and I have Touched the sky...love the title..I never liked that episode of TOS until I watched several years ago and "got it". I find many TOS-season 3 episodes fall in that catagory..

Rob

 

[sbk1234]

The Ultimate Computer was the first episode where I realized there was more to it than just hardware.
After years of watching The Man Trap, Kirk's line "Just thinking about the buffalo," at the end gets to me.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Not to be a big downer, but my answer to the OP is, no, never.

I love Trek, but it has never been for lessons that it taught me, since for me the morality portions of the shows have always been about on par with a G.I. Joe PSA when it comes to their complexity and obviousness. If I got anything out of those parts, it was encouragement that other people (the writers) thought like I did about these things (except on those thankfully rare occasions when they got it horribly wrong, like the no-women-in-command thing in TOS), and hope that someday we might all live in a society where pretty much everyone "gets it". And has their own spaceship, ray gun, and hot green alien chick.

 

[Withers]

Has there ever been a "trek" in your viewing history that went straight over your head, but when you saw it later, you "got it"?

No. I've always understood what the episodes were about and being older didn't make episodes like The Phage or The Quickening any more interesting or entertaining to me when stacked against other episodes with more action.

I'll say I've grown more appreciation for the subtleties of certain Treks and for how hard it must have been to juggle so many balls at once in certain instances... but that's as far as it goes. Maybe in another 20 years the idea of 42 minutes about Neelix or 20 minutes spent on day to day minutiae and 20 minutes spent on how the first 20 minutes should have been spent will be more appealing to me.

-Withers-​

 

[T.D. Possum]

I can't say I've ever had a flash of comprehension about a bit of Trek that I didn't grasp before, but over the years, I have noticed that Trek works as a sort of a yardstick for my own growth. I can look at certain scenes, recall my initial reaction to them, and realize how I have changed as a person.

So I guess you could say I've noticed myself "getting" things in different ways.

 

[Lord Garth]

I get that mainly with TOS and TNG.

Much less so with DS9 and VOY, since I was in high school and college when those shows were on.

 

[Valin]

When I was a kid, I thought that "Spock's Brain", was jut a silly episode with some hot girls in it. When I was older, I realized that the writer was telling us a parable about the future. If we, as a society, end up relying on computers for everything, we too will , to all practical purposes, lose our brains.

 

[22 Stars]

^ Nah, that one is just about hot chicks in go-go boots

 

[JayOwl]

I started watching Star Trek when I was a young whipper snapper. And like most kids who watched I was into the 'ships' and 'phasers' and all that action stuff. Diseases to help stop over population? Who cares!!! Wandering space robots?? That was more my cup of tea.

And then I grew up. I started to realize that some of the episodes of Star Trek didn't have tons of action, just a bunch of jibber-jawing betweek Kirk and SPock and McCoy and..it had meaning. They were trying to make a point.

Has there ever been a "trek" in your viewing history that went straight over your head, but when you saw it later, you "got it"?

Rob

Happens to me all the time, first started 'watching' Star Trek when I was about 6 or 7... never really liked it but after playing Star Trek Armarda 2 for a while when I was about 11-14 I watched the whole of DS9 . I still find when I watch episodes like Cause and Effect etc. I remember it from ages ago, but I pick up loads more than what I did back then.

 

[I am not Spock]

When I rewatch Trek that I haven't seen in many years, I pick up a lot more now than I did then. I was starting primary school when TNG started, and high school when it ended.

Some episodes didn't have enough phaser battles and funky aliens for my tweenaged self. But I appreciate them a lot more nowadays.

 

[Keith1701]

Yeah you'll find that's normal.

I had that happen with The Original Series.

I agree with you, the original series was known for this effect.

 

[Valin]

^ Nah, that one is just about hot chicks in go-go boots

I was just parodying those who try to find deeper meanings where they don't exist.

Or was I?

Then again, pretty much every episode had hot chicks in boots.

 

[I am not Spock]

^ Nah, that one is just about hot chicks in go-go boots

I was just parodying those who try to find deeper meanings where they don't exist.

Or was I?

Then again, pretty much every episode had hot chicks in boots.

Well, TOS did, at least.

 

[Valin]

Correct. Classic Trek had hot chicks with short skirts and boots.
Later Trek had hot chicks in catsuits.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Correct. Classic Trek had hot chicks with short skirts and boots.
Later Trek had hot chicks in catsuits.

But that was not before they had milfs in catsuits, and I'll let you be the judge of who I mean.

Rob

 

[Tom Riley]

I was born in '89, in between seasons 2 and 3 of TNG. My parents watched it when it was on, and I know that I took an interest in it by the time '94 hit, as that's about when I can start to remember watching it on tv (not that I can really remember what I thought of the episodes) in the last season and as the reruns started, and I had the playmates 5" figures that I loved. I didn't quite understand all of it being 5 and all, but as I got older I understood it more. I understood all of it by the time I hit high school in '04 so I haven't had any "Aha!" moments recently, but I did in those 10 years from '94 to '04...