At what lengths?

[RobertScorpio]

Sometimes a TREK movie would come out, or a series, or even a book, that for some reason..you had to go through great lengths to see it or get..well, for me at least...

For example. During the final season of DS9 I was station aboard the USS CARL VINCENT, in the Gulf no less. So I was unable to see the final season of DS9. So my friend Bill would tape (this was during the VCR era) three episodes at a time, and then mail them to me and my friends on the ship.

I would get the tape, and then we'd all meet in the tool room, which had a TV and VCR and couches/chairs, and watch the episodes. Thankfully we made it back to the states to see the final episode as it aired...but I really have to give Bill credit for sending us DS9 when we were in the Gulf and on our way back.

--
When Star Trek V came out, my other friend, Mike, was fired from his job as a school bus driver; he had hit a boat..(another story for another time)...he was so down that even Star Trek V (which I loved, and he hated) couldn't cheer him up.

Rob

 

[Marten]

I started watching Star Trek quite late, so I've been able to get all i need on DVD.

Possibly, I could mention how neither of my friends wanted to see the new film, so I had to go and watch it by myself, but that wasn't really an obstacle. Going to the cinema alone turned out to be quite good.

 

[Forbin]

If you were stationed aboard the ship howcum you got its name wrong?
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/

 

[RobertScorpio]

If you were stationed aboard the ship howcum you got its name wrong?
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/

1. It was over 12 years ago.
2. I've smoked to much pot in my life
3. I dont have spell check on my browser
4. And here's the clincher; it might have been the Abraham Lincoln instead.




Rob

 

[mari]

I'm still trying to find a copy of Diane Duane's "The Empty Chair" for less than $60. It's a bloody $8 paperback! Other than that, I seem very able to access the Trek I desire. I even got a non-Trekkie friend to pay for us to see the new movie... based mainly on Quinto being in it.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'm still trying to find a copy of Diane Duane's "The Empty Chair" for less than $60. It's a bloody $8 paperback! Other than that, I seem very able to access the Trek I desire. I even got a non-Trekkie friend to pay for us to see the new movie... based mainly on Quinto being in it.

Thats funny...but I totally understand...in fact

Back in the day, when a new TREK movie would come out, I would marshall my family to all come together and see it together. Fifteen or twenty family members (you know, cousins, uncles...ect) would get together every couple years to shoot the shit in line, and see the movie together, taking up a whole row of movies...

I would usually have already seen it. I knew going in which movies would go over (The Voyage Home) and which ones would have issues (The Final Frontier; though, I love that movie)...

Then, due to my military career, I wasn't able to see some of them with the family. A few of us came together to see nemesis, and wow, what a stupid movie that was.

But after I saw XI, I knew I had a hit on my hand. So I rounded up some of the new generation family members (my own kids, nephews, and old standbys like my sisters and their kids and husbands) and 26! of us went to an IMAX showing. 26 people times $20 a ticket (and popcorn)...you do the math..

But it was worth it. The movie (follow along here, you anti XI folks) went over BIG TIME with the teenagers in the group. STAR TREK was hip again...

Rob

 

[bluedana]

Funny topic. Way back in oh, 1986 or '87, I brought a friend home from college during a break. We decided we wanted to see ST:TMP. At this time, VHS was the only thing out there (no DVDs) and you had to join video clubs to rent them. My parents belonged to the club up the street, but that store didn't have TMP that day. So we got out the phone book (this was also before the Internet, kids) and started calling around to all the area video stores to see if they had TMP -- for some reason, the movie was checked out everywhere. Who knew it was so popular? When we finally found one that did have it, it was going to cost us a $175 deposit just to join the club, plus $8 or $10 to rent the film. Us: Uh, Mom, can we borrow ...? Mom's face: Uh, no.

We ended up calling every video store in the city, with zero luck, until my mom remembered that the local supermarket had some videos for rent. We finally got it there, for, like $10, by signing up for the free rental club.

Too bad the movie sucked. After getting through it (and using the VCR timer to gauge just how long the panning shot of the Enterprise was), we looked at each other like, All that effort for this???

Now, years later, all it takes is for one of us to say to the other: wanna watch TMP? and we're done.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Funny topic. Way back in oh, 1986 or '87, I brought a friend home from college during a break. We decided we wanted to see ST:TMP. At this time, VHS was the only thing out there (no DVDs) and you had to join video clubs to rent them. My parents belonged to the club up the street, but that store didn't have TMP that day. So we got out the phone book (this was also before the Internet, kids) and started calling around to all the area video stores to see if they had TMP -- for some reason, the movie was checked out everywhere. Who knew it was so popular? When we finally found one that did have it, it was going to cost us a $175 deposit just to join the club, plus $8 or $10 to rent the film. Us: Uh, Mom, can we borrow ...? Mom's face: Uh, no.

We ended up calling every video store in the city, with zero luck, until my mom remembered that the local supermarket had some videos for rent. We finally got it there, for, like $10, by signing up for the free rental club.

Too bad the movie sucked. After getting through it (and using the VCR timer to gauge just how long the panning shot of the Enterprise was), we looked at each other like, All that effort for this???

Now, years later, all it takes is for one of us to say to the other: wanna watch TMP? and we're done.

That post brought back so many memories. I think we've all jumped through those hoops to rent a VHS movie at one point or another.

For me? It was Aliens. I had refused to see it when it was a movie because I just didn't think it was going to be good. My friend kept bashing me for never having seen it. So, on a whim, we decided, while coming home from work, to try and rent it. We went everywhere, and couldn't find. Then, we found it at one of those ma/pap places that required, as you said, a large fee to join. We joined! It was a $135 fee to join, and $10 to rent the damn thing..

However, in my case, it was worth it. Aliens scared the crap out of me (due to my being scarred from my mom taking me, as a 7 year old kid, to see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD)...

Rob

 

[WillsBabe]

Back at the beginning of TNG's run in the late 80's, multistandard video recorder/players were massively rare and expensive in the UK. We would have a friend of a friend of a friend in the US copy 6 episodes to tape and have them send it over. Another friend would then have the NTSC tape converted to PAL. It cost a fortune in time and money, but we were determined to see those episodes.

 

[Forbin]

If you were stationed aboard the ship howcum you got its name wrong?
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/

1. It was over 12 years ago.
2. I've smoked to much pot in my life
3. I dont have spell check on my browser
4. And here's the clincher; it might have been the Abraham Lincoln instead.




Rob

Well okay, then.

 

[Forbin]

Funny topic. Way back in oh, 1986 or '87, I brought a friend home from college during a break. We decided we wanted to see ST:TMP. At this time, VHS was the only thing out there (no DVDs) and you had to join video clubs to rent them. My parents belonged to the club up the street, but that store didn't have TMP that day. So we got out the phone book (this was also before the Internet, kids) and started calling around to all the area video stores to see if they had TMP -- for some reason, the movie was checked out everywhere. Who knew it was so popular? When we finally found one that did have it, it was going to cost us a $175 deposit just to join the club, plus $8 or $10 to rent the film. Us: Uh, Mom, can we borrow ...? Mom's face: Uh, no.

We ended up calling every video store in the city, with zero luck, until my mom remembered that the local supermarket had some videos for rent. We finally got it there, for, like $10, by signing up for the free rental club.

Too bad the movie sucked. After getting through it (and using the VCR timer to gauge just how long the panning shot of the Enterprise was), we looked at each other like, All that effort for this???

Now, years later, all it takes is for one of us to say to the other: wanna watch TMP? and we're done.

That post brought back so many memories. I think we've all jumped through those hoops to rent a VHS movie at one point or another.

For me? It was Aliens. I had refused to see it when it was a movie because I just didn't think it was going to be good. My friend kept bashing me for never having seen it. So, on a whim, we decided, while coming home from work, to try and rent it. We went everywhere, and couldn't find. Then, we found it at one of those ma/pap places that required, as you said, a large fee to join. We joined! It was a $135 fee to join, and $10 to rent the damn thing..

However, in my case, it was worth it. Aliens scared the crap out of me (due to my being scarred from my mom taking me, as a 7 year old kid, to see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD)...

Rob

For my wife and me it was Altered States. Had to drive 15 miles to a highway video store, the only one in the county. There was no club to join, but it was a $75 deposit on the tape (Betamax, of course), $70 of which would be returned when I brought the tape back. Kinda like ransom.

 

[Anji]

Before each movie would come out my Trek friends and I would get together at someone's house and watch every movie in order and then go see the new movie (this would take place on opening night, of course.) We would take the day off and everything for this ritual.

 

[issreliant]

My friends and i walk 6 miles to the nearest theater to see Star Trek 6: the undiscovered country, it was uphill most of the way, and we had to walk home also, but it was worth it.

 

[RobertScorpio]

My friends and i walk 6 miles to the nearest theater to see Star Trek 6: the undiscovered country, it was uphill most of the way, and we had to walk home also, but it was worth it.

That was one hell of great length..literally!!!...You have earned your respect from me!!!

Rob

 

[Forbin]

My friends and i walk 6 miles to the nearest theater to see Star Trek 6: the undiscovered country, it was uphill most of the way, and we had to walk home also, but it was worth it.

The walk home was uphill too. In the snow! Barefoot!

 

[barnaclelapse]

I don't recall going to any great lengths to see something Trek-related. The closest I've got is putting up with a car ride with my biological father in order to see Generations the night it opened.

That's only really significant to people who unfortunately knew him.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

My friends and i walk 6 miles to the nearest theater to see Star Trek 6: the undiscovered country, it was uphill most of the way, and we had to walk home also, but it was worth it.

The walk home was uphill too. In the snow! Barefoot!

Heh, i thought the exact same thing!

I don't recall going to any great lengths to see something Trek-related. The closest I've got is putting up with a car ride with my biological father in order to see Generations the night it opened.

That's only really significant to people who unfortunately knew him.

{{{{squishy hug}}}}


I can't say i went as far as some of you, but when First Contact came out on VHS and DVD we made the decision to buy a DVD player just for viewing the movie.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^^ wow..I think I got my first DVD player too when TREKS started coming out on DVD.

Rob

 

[barnaclelapse]

My friends and i walk 6 miles to the nearest theater to see Star Trek 6: the undiscovered country, it was uphill most of the way, and we had to walk home also, but it was worth it.

The walk home was uphill too. In the snow! Barefoot!

Heh, i thought the exact same thing!

I don't recall going to any great lengths to see something Trek-related. The closest I've got is putting up with a car ride with my biological father in order to see Generations the night it opened.

That's only really significant to people who unfortunately knew him.

{{{{squishy hug}}}}


I can't say i went as far as some of you, but when First Contact came out on VHS and DVD we made the decision to buy a DVD player just for viewing the movie.

That's an awesome reason to buy a DVD player. Don't let anyone tell you different.

 

[sbk1234]

The hardest time seeing a Trek film was the first one, since I was only about 11, too young to drive, and the only Trek fan in the family. It was given a very low priority by my parents to take me to. It was finally months before I saw it.

Things got a lot easier once I got my driver's lisence.