When did you first realize you were incurable?

[O'Dib]

A friend of mine cut off the puffy ball thingy on his snow-hat, and without knowing why, I decided to keep it. Imagine my geek out when I realized it looks like my very own, first pet tribble! At this point, the fact that I frequent this place notwithstanding, I know I'm a hopeless trekkie for life! What was your "I'm a sad, sad person" moment?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Going back to see ST:TMP a third time.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Hooking up two VCRs so that I could make compilation tapes of Next Generation.

 

[backstept]

making a Star Trek joke and realizing NO ONE in my group of friends gets it

 

[captcalhoun]

when i joined a TNG fan-club, which i was in from 2nd year of high school until partway through college. (IE most of the '90s) and i was well gutted when the club was wound up as i was only an Ensign and i wanted to get to Lieutenant Commander.

unfortunately, the rise in popularity of SF meant mags like SFX were selling well and beating them to the punch on news and worse, there was this horrific thing called 'teh internets' which gave you information on new episodes FOR FREE EVERY DAY!

which compared to like, £7 for four quarterly newsletters, was too good.

 

[backstept]

when I would go to the newsstand and look at Star Trek The Magazine instead of trying to sneak looks at the Swimsuit Issue

 

[infinix]

When

1. You achieve a rank of fleet captain or higher here (which I should be able to make)

and

2. You see this type of thread and feel compelled to post something, anything.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I used to buy the Voyager and DS9 videos which came out about 2 months before the episodes were shown on Australian TV. I just couldn't wait those extra two months.

I gave the videos away when I moved 2.5 years ago. I have bought three seasons of Voyager and one season of DS9 on DVD since then but I am more interested in other shows now. I think I became 'trekked out' some years ago.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

My Trek starting point was Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it. I was 7.

 

[WillsBabe]

When I got to university and put up a poster of Kerr Avon above my bed - you know when all the other kids were Blu-Tacking their Che Guevaras; Klimts and CND posters to walls of the halls bedroom.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

When I first saw this thread I thought the title was, "When did you first realize you were incredible?"

 

[Niorah]

When I was spending my afternoons running around my grandmother's house being Captain Kirk, and together with my imaginary sidekicks Spock and McCoy I used to live endless adventures on exotic and unknown planets, or commandeer my spaceship while exploring the Galaxy.

Yep. Just like that.

 

[FPAlpha]

Making my own Bath'leth out of wood and grip tape together with a friend so we had a matching set.

Actually getting Tai Chi lessons just because it looked so cool when Worf did the klingon version on Star Trek.

And i don't regret a bit of it because it was so much fun (and i can really recommend Tai Chi to anyone.. i came out energized after each session).

 

[K'Ehleyr]

When I say to a co-worker at work when I leave my position behind the bar, "You have the Bridge".

When I think to myself whilst cruising the supermarket carpark for a space "Impulse power".

When I mumble to myself about an irritating customer "PetaQ"

When I get introduced to Son's friends "This is Mum ~ she's belongs to a Star Trek Site" and see them all

When I fire up my new gas cooker (whoop whoop) and press the ignition button (my old one didn't have one) and point my finger and say "make it so".

AND... I love it, for some reason it makes people uncomfortable ~ I think they all feel left out. Maybe we should assimilate them

 

[RAMA]

I watched TOS/TAS before, but somehow during a mid-night showing when I was 13, something about the show hit me...reinforced by the weekend episodes that were shown. I realized just how much I loved the show. It was further expanded when I saw STIII in 1984, the first ST movie I saw in a movie theater.

RAMA

 

[Count Zero]

I never thought I was a sad person for being a Trek fan. It's fun! For me, it was more a realisation over time. The first Trek related event I can clearly remember was me going to the carneval costume party of my first grade disguised as Spock. This was in the GDR and was somewhat disappointing because no one in my class recognised the costume. As it turned out, they didn't watch as much West German tv as they had claimed and didn't know what Star Trek was. I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that one could not know about Star Trek. So, I guess, I was already incurable at that point. I've been a fan practically all my life and liked nearly all of Trek's different incarnations so I doubt I'll ever leave the fold.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

When I realized there was not one single human interaction I could have that I could not in some way work an appropriate Trek line into.

 

[bluedana]

As a sophomore in high school, I would take a bus, a trolley, and a subway train to (what seemed like, and maybe was) the only bookstore in eastern Massachusetts that sold Pocket Trek novels -- I forget what it was called, but it was in Downtown Crossing. Every other month, my babysitting money would go to buying a Trek novel, and I'd make do with a carton of chocolate milk for lunch for a week.

Sad.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

I'm a HUGE wrestling fan so I have a lot of sad moments.

Whenever Raw comes to town, I try to go as much as I can, and god bless the souls who come with me because I am very LOUD and they often hold their hats down to cover their faces and pretend they don't know me. I get legit angry at fake wrestling. Not sure how many things are sadder than that.

Just wanted to happily share that a few years ago when I went to Raw, I was in the 3rd row, east floor seats, and I stood up and gave Cena double middle fingers and he was looking right at me. One of the best moments of my life.

When

1. You achieve a rank of fleet captain or higher here (which I should be able to make)

and

2. You see this type of thread and feel compelled to post something, anything.

lololoolololololol

 

[RJDiogenes]

I guess it was obvious I was incurable in 1969 when Channel 56 started showing Trek five nights a week and I watched every night no matter how often I saw each episode. I never thought of it as diseased or sad, though-- I thought of other people as diseased and sad for not getting it.