Anyone Else Find Star Trek Boring As a Kid?

[TrekNut87]

I don't think I ever found it boring, I just didn't understand it. I was 6 when I saw my first episode. I believe it was TNG (maybe DS9, I can't rememember exactly). I can remember asking my dad about all the "funny looking aliens" and why Geordi had "the sunglasses thing" on his face, but I loved it. I thought it was the coolest show ever.

 

[RandyS]

I was born right after TOS' first run on NBC and grew up with it (It helped that my mom was a fan in the '60's, she got me interested). I don't recall ever being bored by any of the shows, but they did make the occasional episode that bored me. TOS alone made "City on the Edge of Forever" and "Miri", two episodes I almost never rewatch unless I'm going through my DVD's. TNG had "The Inner Light" which I also find it had to sit through. Most of Voyager's season 3 was hard to take at times.

For the most part though, Star Trek has been good.

 

[Shazam!]

How old are we talking about? I loved the movies and TNG from when I was 8 or 9.

 

[abaldwin360]

My mother was (is) a HUGE TOS fan, we watched it every Sunday when I was going up and I can remember being super bored when it was on when I was a kid. We also saw all the TOS movies in the theater when they came out.

I was in 7th or 8th grade when TNG started, and of course my mother was a huge fan of it as well, and by that age I actually started to appreciate Star Trek and became a fan.

Now in my mid-30's I'm a huge fan of all things Star Trek, though I have to admit I had forgotten about it since Enterprise was canceled, the new movie drew me back in.

 

[Neutral Zone]

I was hooked from the first time I saw it. Fortunately for me I never had any problem with watching it (we were a one tv family, but that was in the late 60's and early 70's) as my whole family loved it. My mother enjoyed watching watching it until died but out of a family of six I became the only addicted Trekkie. Sad case!

 

[Wynterhawk]

Like a few other people on here, I remember, vaguely, re-runs of TOS and for some reason I *really* remember The Empath. I don't know why such a boring episode stood out so much. I grew up on TNG but remember nothing about it, except kind of crushing on Wesley

Going back as an adult and watching TOS, I can see why it probably didn't stick in my memory much. A lot of the themes probably went over my head and couldn't compete with the flashier action shows of the time.

 

[Navaros]

As a kid, I always found TNG and DS9 to be terribly boring, but never TOS. I think that is because TOS is colorful and always action-packed. Kirk is always getting into fistfights and such, which were my favorite parts of the show as kid.

As an adult I still find TNG to be just as boring as when I was a kid but no longer find DS9 to be boring. Then again, that may be because I tuned out DS9 during the pilot as a kid and didn't know all the other great things that DS9 had in it besides Bajorans and wormhole aliens, which are things which I still find boring. I still don't find TOS to be boring.

 

[Keith1701]

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!!

No Way, When I was six years old, and STAR TREK TOS first took to the air on NBC television. I have already mention, that "The Doomsday Machine" was my favorite episode even in the 1960's. After, I watched my first episode of Star Trek, at age 6, I was hook and have been every since that first show. In fact, that was during the days before the VCR, so my solution to the problem, was to audio record each episode and had to ask my family to remain quiet during the recording of the great episodes. In fact, when my parents were moving, we found all those old cassette tapes with the episodes of Star Trek recorded on them. No other television series in the 60's was a great as STAR TREK was to me. I enjoyed Lost In Space, the original Battlestar Galactica, and even Buck Rogers but none was better to me than STAR TREK. I know that my family would agree with me, because since those early years of TOS, I have given up lots of money to support all that is STAR TREK, from VHS tapes, to now DVD's, to every year buying a TREK calendar, Trek models, going to Star Trek Conventions and the list goes on and on......

 

[scout]

I loved Star Trek when I was little as well. It was about something - exploration, ideas, the fabled human 'betterment'. An Earth without poverty or hunger? That has got to be worth fighting for...

Star Wars bored me!

 

[The Castellan]

I loved Star Trek when I was little as well. It was about something - exploration, ideas, the fabled human 'betterment'. An Earth without poverty or hunger? That has got to be worth fighting for...

Damn straight.