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Age and how you got here...
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Watched TOS as a kid and I've seen everything else as they came out. I like to think that since I was born the year Trek started, it was made just for me.
Most excellent - same here!
I'm 62, and IIRC my dad told me that summer of 1966 before TOS started that there was going to be a new sci-fi show coming out on TV. He was a sci-fi fan; his favorite show was Twilight Zone, but he watched Outer Limits and other shows, too.
In a college English class in the 1940's he wrote a science fiction story about going to the moon; that must have taken guts back then to turn one in for a grade.
I think he said he got a good grade on it, so the professor must have been a good sport.
PS. Dad was a mechanical engineer; he told me once that he in fact was more interested in astronomy and considered majoring in that, but wanted to have a family and felt engineering would be a steadier profession. He was right; he had success and loved it all his life.
In a college English class in the 1940's he wrote a science fiction story about going to the moon; that must have taken guts back then to turn one in for a grade.
I think he said he got a good grade on it, so the professor must have been a good sport.PS. Dad was a mechanical engineer; he told me once that he in fact was more interested in astronomy and considered majoring in that, but wanted to have a family and felt engineering would be a steadier profession. He was right; he had success and loved it all his life.
51 in 12 days been watching as long as I can recall the subsequent series have had their moments , though I found Ent and VOY largely unwatchable as for the Abrams films I see them as a distinct continuity with no more bearing on the original series than the universe of the antimatter Lazarus
37. TNG (and TOS reruns) made me a fan in the early 90's. I watched my precious VHS tapes with all those episodes (and VOY/DS9) again and again until they were so degraded I had to buy the DVDs.
After Enterprise I kind of 'let go' of Star Trek, but a couple of years ago I started rewatching all the series and 'rediscovered' all the forgotten good episodes.
It's interesting how some of the 'awesome' episodes of my youth turn out to be pretty average and some of the forgotten ones turn out to be masterpieces!
I read this forum in the Enterprise days, but only registered last year.
After Enterprise I kind of 'let go' of Star Trek, but a couple of years ago I started rewatching all the series and 'rediscovered' all the forgotten good episodes.
It's interesting how some of the 'awesome' episodes of my youth turn out to be pretty average and some of the forgotten ones turn out to be masterpieces!
I read this forum in the Enterprise days, but only registered last year.
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I have vague memories of original run episodes, though they are mostly third season and I was at a friend's house because my mom and dad didn't watch the show (only one TV in the house in 1968 and Dad controlled the dial -- no remote!).
Really got into the show in syndication. It aired after school, after Mom's "stories" ended and before Dad got home. Got hooked on the characters and how entertaining the stories were when it was both very good and very bad (do we reach?).
Never got into memorabilia and such. However, my "Star Trek Concordance" from 1976 is still a very useful reference and still has a prime place on my bookshelf.
Got into TNG in grad school not just because it was Trek, but it was good in it's own right. Most of the department got into it. The episodes were topics of conversation over coffee most every Monday morning.
I think "Star Trek", baseball (Cardinals), and The Beatles are the three things I've been a strong and unwavering fan of the longest.
I have vague memories of original run episodes, though they are mostly third season and I was at a friend's house because my mom and dad didn't watch the show (only one TV in the house in 1968 and Dad controlled the dial -- no remote!).
Really got into the show in syndication. It aired after school, after Mom's "stories" ended and before Dad got home. Got hooked on the characters and how entertaining the stories were when it was both very good and very bad (do we reach?).
Never got into memorabilia and such. However, my "Star Trek Concordance" from 1976 is still a very useful reference and still has a prime place on my bookshelf.
Got into TNG in grad school not just because it was Trek, but it was good in it's own right. Most of the department got into it. The episodes were topics of conversation over coffee most every Monday morning.
I think "Star Trek", baseball (Cardinals), and The Beatles are the three things I've been a strong and unwavering fan of the longest.
I would watch third-season episodes with my mom (not religiously, but I did make sure to catch the season premiere, "Spock's Brain") when I was 12, Fridays at 10 on NBC, right after season 1 of The Name of the Game (with that great 7/4 title music by Dave Grusin; see www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnoHwZKmlk).
Previous to then, I had never been able to see an episode because of piano lesson conflicts - although I did own (via Scholastic) the first two books of Blish adaptations, so when I eventually saw first- and second-season episodes in syndication, I was sometimes surprised by the differences.
I also bought and cemented together an Enterprise and a Klingon battle cruiser - I still have the saucer of the Enterprise somewhere.
I've been to one Star Trek convention, with some college buddies in January 1975 at the Americana in New York City. Met Mr. Doohan and was floored by the absolute absence of any accent in his natural speaking voice. Saw Harlan Ellison (with shoulder-length hair and a pipe) on a panel. Also saw several episodes in glorious 35mm, including "Mirror, Mirror." Bought a "Phaser equipped / Warp drive powered" bumper sticker for the car, a 1966 Bonneville. Looked at, but did not buy, a bound copy of Walter Koenig's "Infinite Vulcan" script for the cartoon series.
The next year (summer '76) was my first time in Europe, and I'd learned a little German and was pleased to see dubbed uncut versions of "The Changeling" and "Requiem for Methuselah." (Also took home a German translation of Niven's Ringworld.)
Went to see all the movies through First Contact and caught up later on the others. Fondest memories are of the premiere-day audience for TWoK. I also made sure to see the Shatner Saturday Night Live episode when it first aired in 1986 and wasn't disappointed. The same year I saw Gene Roddenberry speak at a college in St. Paul, MN (my home at the time) - he didn't let on that TNG was brewing. I watched nearly the whole original run of TNG but didn't care so much about the various later series.
With no disrespect intended to any and all authors of Star Trek novels, the only one I've ever purchased (right at the beginning of the Drought) was Blish's Spock Must Die! I've also heard a TNG novel in audio form, involving Q and Lwaxana Troi (and entirely voiced by De Lancie and Barrett) - called perhaps Q-in-Law? That was more than 20 years ago.
Stuff I own, other than the Blish books, includes the TMP fotonovel (transporter accident scene deleted and not missed), VHS tapes of "The Empath" and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (I'm a George Duning fan, and when I find it I'll post a scan of his 1980 reply to my fan letter), DVDs of the first two movies (director's editions), and a VHS of the sixth movie. With Netflix I'm glad I didn't buy anything else.
I also acquired La-La Land Records' complete original series music set that came out a few years ago. For me, at least, it's excellent value.
Previous to then, I had never been able to see an episode because of piano lesson conflicts - although I did own (via Scholastic) the first two books of Blish adaptations, so when I eventually saw first- and second-season episodes in syndication, I was sometimes surprised by the differences.
I also bought and cemented together an Enterprise and a Klingon battle cruiser - I still have the saucer of the Enterprise somewhere.
I've been to one Star Trek convention, with some college buddies in January 1975 at the Americana in New York City. Met Mr. Doohan and was floored by the absolute absence of any accent in his natural speaking voice. Saw Harlan Ellison (with shoulder-length hair and a pipe) on a panel. Also saw several episodes in glorious 35mm, including "Mirror, Mirror." Bought a "Phaser equipped / Warp drive powered" bumper sticker for the car, a 1966 Bonneville. Looked at, but did not buy, a bound copy of Walter Koenig's "Infinite Vulcan" script for the cartoon series.
The next year (summer '76) was my first time in Europe, and I'd learned a little German and was pleased to see dubbed uncut versions of "The Changeling" and "Requiem for Methuselah." (Also took home a German translation of Niven's Ringworld.)
Went to see all the movies through First Contact and caught up later on the others. Fondest memories are of the premiere-day audience for TWoK. I also made sure to see the Shatner Saturday Night Live episode when it first aired in 1986 and wasn't disappointed. The same year I saw Gene Roddenberry speak at a college in St. Paul, MN (my home at the time) - he didn't let on that TNG was brewing. I watched nearly the whole original run of TNG but didn't care so much about the various later series.
With no disrespect intended to any and all authors of Star Trek novels, the only one I've ever purchased (right at the beginning of the Drought) was Blish's Spock Must Die! I've also heard a TNG novel in audio form, involving Q and Lwaxana Troi (and entirely voiced by De Lancie and Barrett) - called perhaps Q-in-Law? That was more than 20 years ago.
Stuff I own, other than the Blish books, includes the TMP fotonovel (transporter accident scene deleted and not missed), VHS tapes of "The Empath" and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (I'm a George Duning fan, and when I find it I'll post a scan of his 1980 reply to my fan letter), DVDs of the first two movies (director's editions), and a VHS of the sixth movie. With Netflix I'm glad I didn't buy anything else.
I also acquired La-La Land Records' complete original series music set that came out a few years ago. For me, at least, it's excellent value.
I am 48 right now. I was born the same year as Star Trek in 1966. I was the youngest of three brothers. My two older brothers watched Star Trek in the early 1970s, so I also watched Star Trek. It was around the time that the animated series started because I remember that series running at the same time as the original series. I consider the animated series to be the fourth season of the original series. I am a big fan of Star Trek and I have a sentimental attachment to the original series and cast.
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