Anyone Else Find Star Trek Boring As a Kid?

[SRFX]

Never. I mean, I found some episodes more interesting than others. I did find that originally I enjoyed TOS more than TNG, as I found TNG really quite boring when it started, which gradually changed as the series grew.

I now realise that aside from Encounter at Farpoint, S1 of TNG was really boring and it wasn't my fault I found it uninteresting. :P

Up until about S3 of TNG, TOS was my preferred Trek - and then it switched around.

For reference I was watching TOS since birth, and started watching TNG when it first aired in Australia in the late-80's (I was about 4-ish).

 

[Plomeek Broth]

This question should have been directed at the post TOS fans because I am noticing a trend and since Star Wars didn't exist then, it kind of nullifies the purpose of my thread lol.

 

[Spocktapus]

My first real introduction to Star Trek was TMP special longer version on VHS when I was 6. For whatever reason I didn't really find it boring so much as spooky. I started watching Trek on television with Voyager season 6 when I was 10. While I didn't find it boring as such, I thought it was a bit dull compared to the movies. Still, I kept watching, week after week.

 

[Plomeek Broth]

Unlike most Trek, I still find TMP boring, although it is hard sci-fi compared to other Trek and I appreciate the concept, but I don't feel it was well executed.

 

[SRFX]

TMP is not hard sci-fi, but I get your point.

 

[Kira Nerys]

me

 

[Penhall99]

This question should have been directed at the post TOS fans because I am noticing a trend and since Star Wars didn't exist then, it kind of nullifies the purpose of my thread lol.

I was born in '81, so I guess the thread applies to me.

And even though I enjoy TMP, I can admit that its a slow film. And yet the first time I saw it on VHS as a kid, I still really liked it...and preferred it to Star Wars....Damn I must have been a weird kid, huh?

 

[The Castellan]

Kids have shorter attention spans and crave a more visceral experience.

You give kids not eough credit. I was always fixated and enjoying what I watched/did. Be it Trek, Red Dwarf (This was in 1990-1991, when Red Dwarf was unknown in the states, or you got laughed at for it. ), and Dr. Who....all three of which would air on Saturday nights over in back then.

My typical Saturday night in 1990-1991 would be:

5:00 PM: wrestling
6:00 PM: LPWA wrestling (women's wrestling show)
7:00 PM: Star Trek TNG
8:00 PM: Super Force
9:00 PM to 11:00 PM either some NES gaming, star gazing, or getting the sheep back into the back fields. Yes, we raised sheep back then.
11:00 PM: Red Dwarf
11:30 PM: Doctor Who

Saturdays were pretty much that for me.

And I enjoyed TMP, and still do, over all the Trek films.

 

[threeb]

Loved TOS reruns as a kid and faithfully watched TNG as a young teen. I fell away from Trek somtime during the third season of Voyager. I really wanted to be excited about Enterprise but never could get past the 10 minute mark of any episode. The 2009 movie re-awakened my love of all things Trek. I'm now watching the TOS DVDs and discovering not only that many episodes are not shown in syndication, but most of them have been edited so that entire scenes are missing.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Nope I grew up on TNG and loved it from day 1!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's hard to imagine a kid growing up post-Star Wars and not seeing the original Trek as slow, talky and generally less engaging. I'd think that TOS would appeal more to older adolescents and adults than to kids about ten years old and younger.

In 1966, TOS seemed pretty adventurous and had a lot of visual appeal.

 

[The Castellan]

It's hard to imagine a kid growing up post-Star Wars and not seeing the original Trek as slow, talky and generally less engaging. I'd think that TOS would appeal more to older adolescents and adults than to kids about ten years old and younger.

Not really, I was younger than 10, and enjoyed it alot. Back then and to this day, I can not watch a Star Wars film in one sitting...I need to take breaks in between, since I get so bored with it. Did not find any Trek, especially TOS, boring as a kid. I always made sure I was by the TV each Saturday evening to watch.

 

[Nerys Myk]

When I was a kid the only choices were TOS and later TAS. Can't say I was bored.

 

[Anji]

I never found Star Trek boring. I was about five or six when TOS premered and my whole family would sit down together and watched the show.

I thought Kirk was a hunk and I wanted to grow up to be just like Uhura.

 

[Joby]

Surely I'm not the only one. I grew up on Star Wars and was much more into action-oriented sci-fi whereas I truly got into Star Trek as an adult and it probably has to do with how cerebral it is. I fully intend to have seen and own every Trek series and movie on DVD someday. I have seen most of it all, but not yet.

I just thought it was just a bunch of talking when I was a kid and it felt really slow, but that changed as an adult.

I'm sure a lot of folks don't feel this way, but did any others have a similar experience?

Yes and no. As a very young child, I did not like Star Trek at all, and thought it too boring and talky like you. But then as an older child, at I believe age 11, I finally was able to get into Trek.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Grew up on TNG. Dad had an electronic Enterprise-D, which I had great fun flying around.

I had--and still have--figurines of Picard, Data, Geordi, and a Borg.

As a result, even when I was too young to understand Trek, I still enjoyed all the visuals and SFX.

Curiously enough, I was introduced to Star Wars later.

When I was young, I enjoyed Episode I and II--fun, humor, and all that. I actually like Jar-Jar--and still do.

Now, however...I'm smart enough to recognize bad writing when I see it.

As a result...while I'm a good fan of the classic trilogy, I DESPISE all the bad dialouge of the prequels.

Oh, and I STILL love Trek--even MORE than I did as a kid.

 

[marylizz]

I grew up on TNG reruns. I liked them because my mum did. I didn't think it was boring but I really only liked it for the character interaction and cool-looking foreheads of the week. Funny enough, I always was terribly bored with Star Wars as a kid.

Yeah, I think that kids who watched TOS were probably a bit more attentive. It's more fun to watch.

 

[I am not Spock]

I got into Trek when I was 12, and was an obsessive fan, devouring books, comics, anything related to the franchise; by the time I was 14. First Contact came out shortly after my 14th birthday, and I saw it twice at the cinema.

I didn't even see Star Wars until long after I got into Trek. Did I like it? Sure. But Trek has always been my first love. I always found it more cerebral, more varied. It's like an Elvis/Beatles thing. You can like both, but you always like one a bit more.

Now, at the age of 27, I really respect TOS. I can appreciate the fact that it is the best of the series (it and DS9 are my favourites). In fact, TOS entertains me more than most TNG reruns. TNG can be dull sometimes.

Individual episodes of Trek can sometimes be dull. But whole series? Nah.

 

[Jax]

I was born in 1987 and I remember watching BBC 6pm showings of TOS an then from there TNG, DS9, VOY and movies inbetween, I loved it all. I remember watching Star Trek Night in 1995 on BBC 2 and the UK debut of Star Trek Voyager.

However growing up has lead me to actually dislike TOS but still like the other shows. Last year I rewatched TNG/DS9 and early Voyager meaning I have watched every single trek episode from 1987-2005 and all 10 movies + the odd TOS episode. I think growing up as made me appreciate the slower aspects of TREK more but I do love me a good battle

As for Star Wars I never considered myself a true fan of that until probably 2004 Christmas when I brought the DVD OT set though I had seen EP1 at cinema and EP2 on VHS before that.

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

I think the first time I saw Star Trek was when was around 5 or 6 years old. I might of at the time didnt care for it much, but as grew up and watched it more, the more I liked it. I know Star Wars was also out but I never cared much for Star Wars. I seemed to like Star Trek better than Star Wars, so you could say I became a Trekie at young age. I have watched all the shows and movies over the years and had my favorites. My favorites might of changed over the years as new movies came out, but two shows seemed to be the ones I always liked the best and thats TOS and TNG. And remained the same to this day, I still love those shows the best. But now after the new movie came out, I fell in love with TOS all over again and absoultly love that show the best.