Why Did You Join TBBS?

[Maniarek]

I can’t remember the exact specifics, but came onboard for the purpose of discussing the Star Trek franchise, as well as my two fav shows TNG & DS9. I really wanted to see what everyone thought of the characters and episodes, the technobabble, where the industry is going, new ideas and so on.

I signed up way back in 2007, but do more reading than contributing, though plan to change that habit as it’s much more fun and engaging talking with fellow fans and putting forth my opinions and beliefs.

There’s also a very neat following of sci-fi in general here as well, so as an overall sci-fi fan it’s even more of an incentive to continue sticking around and participating here.

The quality of discussion and moderation is of a high standard, some other large forums out there are a mess because of poor moderation, not here though.

Anyway, that’s my story!

Cheers,

Maniarek.

 

[Q2UnME]

Joined to discuss Enterprise shortly after it premiered, because the Trolls over at the StarTrek.com made discussion impossible. Found this place to be nice with minimal trolling... Been here ever since.

 

[doubleohfive]

I tried joining in the spring of 2001. For some reason the board wouldn't let me. I kept coming back though every time I tried to find news about the new series, called "Enterprise."

Finally in August, the site let me register and I've been torturing myself reading posts here ever since.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I did not join this board, this board joined me.

Sounds like you need some ointment for that.

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ Or a pair of pliers and an ice cream cone for the pain.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I did not join this board, this board joined me.

Sounds like you need some ointment for that.

In Soviet Russia, board...oh, the hell with it.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

My wife was a member here and she thought it would be better for me than all the porn I was surfing.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Nobody's right all the time.

 

[M'Sharak]

I blame Daneeka, McWatt, Snowden, Orr and Moodus.

Seriously. I'd been watching a DS9 rerun on the local UPN station, sometime late 2001-ish, and realized that a roster of recently-transferred officers were all familiar names. How I'd missed noticing it on earlier viewings, I can't say, but I suddenly had to know: what are a bunch of characters from Catch-22 all doing getting mentioned by name in an episode of Deep Space Nine?

By that time I learned that answer, I'd already been here for a year (and narrowly missed being erased in the Great Crash,) but long before that I'd already discovered the extent of Trek material available online and had dug through significant chunks of TrekWeb, TrekPulse, TrekToday, Andrew Tong's TNG database at Cal Tech, PsiPhi's DS9 ep guides, the now-defunct Sector 001 database at Powernet, all of Tim Lynch's reviews, all of Jim Wright's reviews and some of Jammer's, all of the parodies then up at Five-Minute Voyager, bits of STinSV and a load of other stuff I can't recall in detail.

Over the first six months of that exploration, searches occasionally turned up threads from old Black and Blue, which I would read whole or in part. I don't think it was really regular enough to be called lurking, but I dropped in now and then. Then one day, I just decided to come over, sign up, and post a thread asking about Daneeka, McWatt, Snowden, Orr and Moodus.

(I also recall that one of the first things I did on arrival was earn a or two from Kor for telling him that he was in error when he told someone that Sulu was clearly a Japanese name because the Sulu Sea was near Japan. Which it is, of course... in roughly the same way that the Black Sea is near the British Isles.)

 

[Skywalker]

I lost a bet.

 

[RandyS]

^^ Nobody's right all the time.

I am. I don't know why. It just worked out that way.

 

[RJDiogenes]

You must be parked on the far end of the Probability Curve.

 

[Mooch]

I don't remember anymore!

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I dont quite remember. I used to post on the alt.trek newsgroups quite a bit, but like most people eventually moved away from Usenet. I am sure one day I came up with some stunningly insightful Star Trek observation and felt I just must share it with the world and desperately started looking for a place to do it. The rest is largely forgotten history.

 

[Joshua Howard]

I just know I was in the Fred Meyer electronics department, and I saw Star Trek movies in order with their silver colored DVD cases back in 2007. I got one and watched it. Then I came back and got another one. Then I came back and got all of them. Then I got all of the TOS episodes, and at some point in the middle of all that, I signed up here too.

 

[Deckerd]

No idea.

 

[Trippy]

I googled the episode E2 from ENT looking for spoilers, and found trektoday, and then from there found here! I've been held captive ever since

 

[Tribbles]

I specifically joined to vote for Spock in a "Who's hotter: Kirk or Spock?" poll in the Star Trek XI forum.

I am so. lame.

 

[star]

I participated in a chat interview with Scott Bakula (sometime during the first or second season of ENT, I think) at startrek.com. I lingered afterward and someone mentioned this site... so I decided to check it out.

It's been several years and I can't figure out yet how to leave this freaking black hole!

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I'm late to the thread, so everyone's probably stopped reading and gone home. I stumbled across the board in April 2009 (about a year after first getting access to the internet). I don't remember how I first found it, but the discussions in the Trek Literature forum caught my interest (I'm a huge Trek novel fan). I began lurking and following the threads in Trek Lit, and also the caption contests in other forums, which were funny. I got to "know" some of the regulars and grew quite fond of these people I'd never met, spoken to or shared any exchange whatsoever with (that's me, I'm afraid. I form attachments ridiculously easily). By the end of May, I had discovered joining was free and simple, so I entered and slid into a discussion in Trek lit about Romulus being destroyed.

It took me a while to settle, as many people might remember, partially because of real-life issues making me somewhat erratic, and partially because I had never been on any sort of internet talk-people-thingy-place before. But as I like to randomly gush every few weeks, I'm very glad I came, and I'm extremely fond of this place and its contrributors.

This "internet" is indeed a wonderful place, if somewhat disturbing...