1970s Trekkie-Kid Childhood Stories/Pics

[Warped9]

I came into Star Trek in 1970 at ten years of age. I remember making cut-and-fold-out Enterprise and Klingon ships out of 8x11 sheets of cardboard until I exerperienced extasy in Christmas Eve 1971 and my first AMT kits of the Enterprise and the Klingon Battle Cruiser.

Soon afterward I made a complete 3D model in carboard of the Galileo. I suspended it from a thread tied up on the TV aerial and down near the base of the backyard fence and watched it fly down to a soft landing. I did that for hours and my dad thought I was nuts.

From my vantage point up on the TV tower it looked just like the onscreen shot of the shuttlecraft flying away from my p.o.v.

 

[cooleddie74]

I went trick-or-treating in the late 70s in a TOS costume and Captain Kirk mask. I no longer have the original costume...it either got lost or fell apart. But I was into the TOS thing before even the first movie came out.

 

[Steve67]

In the days before home video, and needing a Star Trek fix, I would often listen to POWER Records' Trek adventures. I remember being home sick from school and listening to those records over and over. I have them (along with the Planet of the Apes ones) largely memorized, even the music! I liked the actor who did Kirk's voice, and the way he said "Marpaplu" in To Starve a Fleaver is still amusing to me. Great days.

 

[Vance]

Oddly, I don't remember too much Trek from the 1970s, just bits and pieces. I had gotten into my uncle's Trek stuff a lot, including several Enterprise model rockets. I also drew a LOT of ships based on the FJ:TM ...

The one thing I really do remember most was getting the South Bend Enterprise for the movie, and I got to play with it for like - a day - I think. I'm not actually sure what happened to it, since it immediately disappeared after that Christmas, though I'm 99 percent sure that my step-brother at the time took it for himself. Sadly, much of my toy collection from that era went that way.

 

[Filmakr1]

May 28, 1976 ... From my first 8mm movie ...

 

[Therin of Andor]

TMP was also the first McDonald's "Happy Meal" I got. I was eight and wanted the thing just because it was Trek. In fact, that may have been the introduction of the Happy Meal.

Correct. Check out this TV commercial:
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2009/01/klingon-kommercialism.html

 

[Tan Ru]

In the days before home video, and needing a Star Trek fix, I would often listen to POWER Records' Trek adventures. I remember being home sick from school and listening to those records over and over. I have them (along with the Planet of the Apes ones) largely memorized, even the music! I liked the actor who did Kirk's voice, and the way he said "Marpaplu" in To Starve a Fleaver is still amusing to me. Great days.

THAT reminds me................ Is there any website that has those great cheesy records ripped to MP3 format available for download? Love to hear 'em again.