Anyone Else Find Star Trek Boring As a Kid?

[Plomeek Broth]

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?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I can't even recall the first time I watched Star Trek. One of my older sisters tells me that when I was four, I commandeered the family TV set (yes, we had just one) to watch Star Trek. I absolutely loved it for longer than I have conscious memory. (In fact, I didn't recall having watched it at that age till my teens, when I saw it again in reruns.)

 

[Sector 7]

From your post, I can guess that perhaps you grew up on 24th century Trek shows. However, I grew up watching TOS... well before Star Wars came along. Technobabble had not yet been invented.

TOS had plenty of action, adventure and exploring strange new worlds... with a dose of morality play thrown in for good measure. It was never boring for me. Ah, those were the good old days...

 

[Plomeek Broth]

From your post, I can guess that perhaps you grew up on 24th century Trek shows. However, I grew up watching TOS... well before Star Wars came along. Technobabble had not yet been invented.

TOS had plenty of action, adventure and exploring strange new worlds... with a dose of morality play thrown in for good measure. It was never boring for me. Ah, those were the good old days...

I wasn't born when TOS originally came on, so I had no choice I am getting TOS Season 1 Remastered for Xmas and can't wait to dig in.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The only Trek I saw before my teen years was when I caught the airing of The Doomsday Machine at the age of 5. I was not bored, I was terrified!!

 

[StardustSteph]

I did then again I was very young when TNG came out I was 1, but I remember my parents watching it when I was around 4 or 5. They loved Star Trek but I couldn't sit through it at all. I started watching it with them when VOY started and I enjoyed that. Funny thing is when I first watched TNG in its entirety last year, I remember distinct scenes I remembered seeing from when my parents watched it when it aired.

 

[Myasishchev]

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?

Only the Motion Picture really had this kind of shift for me. I grew up on TNG, and usually loved it.

 

[Chrisisall]

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 was captivated at age 6- but then I was always a verbal kid.
I always thought it was the shortest show on TV; I wished it would last longer than Gilligan's Island. In truth it did, but I didn't know it then.

 

[Piper]

Although I've heard this idea before that kids can find Trek dull, I didn't at all and loved it from the first time I saw it. Weirdly, though, I found Star Wars very dull.

 

[C_Miller]

I've liked Star Trek from an early age (I'm 21). I remember early episodes of The Next Generation from the first run, like Genesis, All Good Things, Realm of Fear, Redemption, and The First Duty (Those are the ones that pop out clearly in my head). It was one of the only shows that my Dad watched and I'm not sure if it was the show I liked or just bonding with him, but I would still call myself a fan. I had so many of the action figures along with the Enterprise-D bridge and a Shuttlecraft and I used to create my own missions and even knew what the characters did for the most part.

So yeah, I think I would have considered myself a fan. Never found it dull. In fact, it was the only that that would hold my interest and bring me in from outside. And Trek was on at an early time, if I remember correctly, so I wasted day light to watch it, but I don't regret it.

 

[StarMan]

I have a vague recollection of catching TOS repeats early weekend mornings. Can't say they grabbed me. TNG as a kid I had *some* passing interest in if it were on the box, which was all dependent on what Mum and Dad were watching given it was prime time.

It was ST: First Contact that got my interest good and proper. I began hiring TNG episodes on VHS and that was that... I consumed the entirety of the franchise.

 

[RoJoHen]

I grew up watching TNG, and I loved it. I used to get really excited when the local Chicago network (before UPN existed) would have TNG viewer's choice marathons, and this was at least 2 years before TNG even ended! "All Good Things" aired when I was 9 years old, and I had been watching for several years prior to that. When that finale aired, it was a whole family event!

 

[RegFan]

I've never found Star Trek boring. Sure, I didn't immediately become a fan when I started watching it at age 12, but it nevertheless didn't feel boring. Single Trek episodes and movies are dull, but not the whole franchise. However, I can see why someone could find it boring.

 

[Starbreaker]

I never even saw it until I was 12 or 13, and found it very interesting. I can see where it could be boring, though.

 

[JonnyBoy]

I started with TNG when I was a kid. It had me hooked from the moment I first started watching.

 

[The Castellan]

Although I've heard this idea before that kids can find Trek dull, I didn't at all and loved it from the first time I saw it. Weirdly, though, I found Star Wars very dull.

Same here, I was so bored with Star Wars. Trek was one of my escapes as a kid....being a kid in the late 1980's and early 1990's, and being on the receaving end of each bully in school, and having to deal with crap one has when in a catholic school in the late 1980's (starting going to public school in for 5th grade 1990 onwards), it was my me time. For an hour at a time, I could forget I was me. And it probably saved me, since it was pretty much my only way to get away from it all, since I was that one guy in high school who could not get a date, even if my life depended on it (competing with the 'bad boyz' was near impossible), and probably kept me from doping myself up, as some of my other dateless friends did on Friday nights.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Nope.

Heh.

Although I seem to recall initially thinking TNG wasn't as exciting as TOS. That changed pretty quickly though.

 

[The Wormhole]

I was actually a lot more enthralled with Star Trek as a kid than I am today. Back then, I literally fell in love with anything with Star Trek stamped on it and ejoyed it with no question. These days I'm a bit more critical and allow things like regsitry numbers to get in the way of enjoying it, find myself sorting out issues like is it canon or not.

Oh well, natural evolution of a Trek fan, I guess.

 

[Penhall99]

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?

The opposite for me. I found Star Wars to be a bit over-blown and a little dull as a kid, whereas I found Trek to be exciting...

I do enjoy both, but I'm more of a casual fan of Wars. I prefer Trek anyday...

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I didn't intend this to turn into a Trek vs Wars thread at all. Just using an example. Kids have shorter attention spans and crave a more visceral experience. Hence, I adored Wars and thought Trek was mostly a snoozefest. However, upon reaching adulthood,I can finally appreciate Trek in all its glory. I'm no genius, but I am certainly not a dimwit either. So I wondered if others felt the same. I appreciate the posts which have mentioned how they could understand people, especially kids, perceiving Trek as slow, dull, and boring. Thank Kahless I grew up!