...and so I thank

[RobertScorpio]

who?

I remember my uncle getting me to watch Star Trek. Had it not been for him, I wouldn't have found it as young as I was.

Were you someone who found TREK on your own? Or did someone get you to watch it? Can you actually remember the first time you saw a "star Trek" tv show???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[BarryWaddle]

I think I started a thread not unlike this, awhile ago...

It was 1986, I was eight, and my stepfather introduced it to me...He regrets it to this day. LOL It was an Original series episode...Exactly which one? I'm not sure...But it was either "Who Mourns For Adonais?" or "The Tholian Web". Then he recorded "Wrath of Khan" for me, warned me a main character would be killed off, and about the first scene with the Ceti Eels...The following year, TNG premiered. And I've been hooked ever since.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I think I started a thread not unlike this, awhile ago...

It was 1986, I was eight, and my stepfather introduced it to me...He regrets it to this day. LOL It was an Original series episode...Exactly which one? I'm not sure...But it was either "Who Mourns For Adonais?" or "The Tholian Web". Then he recorded "Wrath of Khan" for me, warned me a main character would be killed off, and about the first scene with the Ceti Eels...The following year, TNG premiered. And I've been hooked ever since.

Cool...I think my first episode was THOLIAN WEB. I still have a memory of being a little kid and seeing those Tholians spinning their web and thinking it was so cool..

Rob

 

[Kirby]

It was either 1977 or 1978, I was in 4th grade and over at my friend Jim Kaehler's house. We were flipping the channels around and came across this strange show, that he had watched with his dad a few times. I'm pretty sure the episode was "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and I was really confused about the whole time travel thing, but I still thought it was pretty cool.
We started watching it on a regular basis and then discovered that it was on back to back on different cable stations (this was back in the day when they were first wiring neighborhoods for cable, and he was the first person I knew to get it).

I've been hooked ever since.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It was my mother who got me into Star Trek. She let me watch a few Star Trek episodes during its mid-80s rerun on the BBC. I didn't remember much, apart from Uhura for some reason.

Then she let me watch some of the movies - I saw the first one taped off the television when I was quite young (and was fascinated by the bald lady and the hypnotic special effects), then the third film. For some reason I became very attached to The Search For Spock for several years.

Things took off in 1990 when my mother let me watch for the first time The Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home when they both aired on ITV, and later I saw Star Trek: The Next Generation when it debuted in the UK. The rest, as they say, is etc.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

About 15 years ago, this guy living across the street used to help me with mathmatics because I wasn't doing too well at school. He would watch TNG and sometimes I caught the end of an episode when I came over. One day I watched an entire episode with him and got hooked. One of the first episodes I saw was Transfigurations. I was a Star Wars freak back then, but I quickly dropped that in favour of Trek!

 

[Stewey]

As a kid, I used to watch a show called "Rolf's Cartoon Time" at about 5 PM ish, and after it came Star Trek TOS. I looked good so I gave it a try one week, that first one was The Deadly Years. After that I started renting the films one by one and was hooked. Then came TNG and I watched it religously every week. At that time, the only sci-fi worth watching was Star Trek.

 

[miraclefan]

My family.

 

[Star Treks]

My mom raised me on TNG (which is why it will always be my favorite), but my love of all things Trek began growing soon after the cancellation of The Next Generation (I was around 11 at the time). I suspect I might have found Trek on my own at some point, but because of her I loved it from a very young age, and am now a happy Trekker.

My first Trek was "Encounter at Farpoint". Hehe.

 

[miraclefan]

My earlyest memory of anything TREK was ''THE CAGE'' I was 4.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

My dad used to be a TOS fan and tried to get me interested in Trek, but I insisted it was stupid...until I was channel-surfing one day and stumbled onto a TNG episode that turned out to be "Unification, Part I." I didn't understand what was going on, but I could tell that a mystery was afoot and I wanted to find out. Much to my surprise--it was Star Trek!

And then came "To Be Continued..." Well, I knew I had to see the rest, and that was that!

Sadly I am no longer the TNG fan I used to be--but I have DS9 now and that's more than enough.

 

[Jadzia]

My father was/is a big sci-fi fan. Some evenings he had the TOS reruns on tv, and since we only had the one tv, that was what we watched as a family. I wasn't interested in trek back then to be honest. It was just family time.

Even with TNG, I wasn't interested first time around. It wasn't until I was in my teenage years at high school that I began to take notice of the programme. First coinciding with school science classes, I noticed that the stuff they did in TNG had a similar language tone to science classes, and that caught my attention.

As I started watching the programmes, it was the social/ethical content which captured my interest the most. I enjoyed the little scenarios Picard et al got themselves into and managed to resolve peacefully. I saw much virtue and objectivity in the TNG characters, and since those are two attractive personality characteristics to me, they stories became pleasant viewing.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Oddly enough, I suppose who I can most give credit to for getting me into Star Trek are two studios that are not involved with it - Fox and Warner Brothers (rather than Paramount). This is because I discovered "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as it was airring on the Fox Network weekday nights around 6 o'clock, which would cap off my daily after school routine of watching cartoons on that channel from around 3:30 or 4 P.M. starting with WB's "Batman: The Animated Series".

 

[LadyPenelope]

I thank Zachary Quinto for being in the new movie.

Growing up, absolutely nobody I knew liked Star Trek, or pretty much any SciFi for that matter, so I never really got into it. But last year my friend Megan (who does like Trek ) tells me that my fave actor is gonna be Spock. And I said "If I go and see a Star Trek film, I'll need to know what its about" so i watched one. And another one. And another etc...

And here I am lol

 

[Forbin]

Nobody for me to thank but Gene himself. I found it myself and I've been watching it since the beginning. Despite my family thinking it was stupid, and such classic admonishments as my Brooklynese Grandfather saying "Whatcha got dere, John, is yer imPOSSible!"

 

[WendellM]

I started watching on my own. Can I remember the very first time? No. However, I can reconstruct that it was before Spring, 1976 (when my family moved), so I was at most nine years old. I remember that it was my favorite at the time, because once my mom forbade TV for a week as a punishment and I agreed readily to forgo all others as long as I could watch Star Trek. She accepted that, though she didn't like or watch it herself, so I guess I should thank her.

It was a few years later before I recognized Trek as part of "science fiction." Until that point, it was just a TV show like Gilligan's Island, Batman, or Superman that I liked, and there were just a few space-based books that I liked to read.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I started watching on my own. Can I remember the very first time? No. However, I can reconstruct that it was before Spring, 1976 (when my family moved), so I was at most nine years old. I remember that it was my favorite at the time, because once my mom forbade TV for a week as a punishment and I agreed readily to forgo all others as long as I could watch Star Trek. She accepted that, though she didn't like or watch it herself, so I guess I should thank her.

It was a few years later before I recognized Trek as part of "science fiction." Until that point, it was just a TV show like Gilligan's Island, Batman, or Superman that I liked, and there were just a few space-based books that I liked to read.

Cool story...I too grew up on those shows you mentioned. I cant even get my son to bother watching SUPERMAN, and SUPERMAN is his second most favorite hero (after Hal Jordan)....But I do love GILLIGAN's ISLAND when I see it time to time. That show is still funny. I just saw an episode of ANDY GRIFFITH that I had never seen, and the Skipper was a guest and he was competing with Barney for a girl's affections. And he kept calling Barney...you guessed it...LITTLE BUDDY!!!

Rob

 

[Gorf]

Pure boredom was my reason.

Star Trek is not very big where I live and the few seasons of TNG ever shown were usually on at around 3 pm. So naturally Star Trek was not for me.

Until that is one evening when I was home and there was absolutely zero on tv and I was bored out of my mind. Star Trek Voyager, Caretaker, had just begun on a channel from another country, but I wasn't interested. Not one bit. However, boredom won and I switched channels - after all I could always turn it off again and I fully expected to do just that.

BUT...needless to say I was hooked. However, I've never managed to branch into any other show than Voyager. They just don't have the same feeling to them and I simply can't warm up to the characters.

 

[jamestyler]

My father. He watched TMP, fell in love with it and when I was born a couple of years later I was raised on the show as if it were the Bible. Yeah.. he had issues.

It was so bad that when TNG came along in the UK on BBC2 (?) I was confused as to why Kirk was nowhere to be seen.

 

[shapeshifter]

I found it on my own.