Earliest Star Trek memories
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My earliest Trek memory is the mid-70's when my older brother introduced me to the show when it played in reruns. I was hooked instantly.
I also remember him taking me to see TMP in theaters when it first came out, and I was in awe the whole time. It was like Star Trek bigger and better in my little kid mind.
I also have fond early memories of eating Star Trek happy meals from McDonald's.
I also remember him taking me to see TMP in theaters when it first came out, and I was in awe the whole time. It was like Star Trek bigger and better in my little kid mind.
I also have fond early memories of eating Star Trek happy meals from McDonald's.
Same with me. My dad watched TNG, and I stayed up to watch it with him. I wouldn't have discovered it until much later otherwise, I'm sure; none of my friends watched it. Anyway, good times. I have fond memories of watching TNG with my dad.
For me, it all started in 1971 or 1972, which would have made me about ten years old. I think my brother recommended it to me. It was shown on weekday afternoons. It seems that the shows started before I got home from school, because the episode memories all seem to begin about halfway in to them.
This scene is my earliest recollection:
This scene is my earliest recollection:
Double post...but relevant to us!
I forgot to post these grabs from season seven of Hawaii Five-O, (1975), something interesting I noticed in the background...
I forgot to post these grabs from season seven of Hawaii Five-O, (1975), something interesting I noticed in the background...
My father was a trekkie for TOS and I can't remember ever not watching Star Trek. The movies and the series have always been on a screen nearby. I did have this eerie feeling after watching "Hide and Q" (and a feeling that I had a nightmare the night I watched it). I was born in '84 so I was either 3 when I saw it or I saw a rerun of it later but that may be my first memory of Star Trek.
^ I got that feeling about "Charlie X".....
I remember watching voyager reruns i was still very young and only faintly remember certain scenes. The only scene i really remember was Voyager 'raping' the borg these reruns happened 200 1/2/3 i think. not sure anymore because i was so young.
i was still very young and only faintly remember certain scenes. The only scene i really remember was Voyager 'raping' the borg these reruns happened 200 1/2/3 i think. not sure anymore because i was so young.
The year must have been 89 or 90, I think, though I don't actually remember specifically. My parents' bedroom had no door, so I would sit on the floor just outside while they watched TNG (it didn't come on until ten o'clock, so I technically wasn't supposed to be awake). After a few times, they figured out i was there and they let me come in the room and watch with them - sitting at the foot of the bed staring almost straight up at the tv.
I don't remember a lot of how things developed that far back, although my mother did eventually have all the movies on VHS, and we watched those a lot. I fell in love with DS9 almost as soon as it started and watched it all the way through on the first run (except for mid sixth to mid seventh season, when the television was broken). For a long time I watched Voyager and Enterprise regularly, too, but never got so deeply interested in either of them.
We also spent a lot of time going to conventions throughout the nineties, dressing up, buying memorabilia and so on, though after several consecutive moves, most of that is gone now, and I'm only just getting around to building up my dvd collection (currently have all the movies I intend to buy, plus DS9 seasons 4-7, just now rewatching 4 which only was delivered this weekend).
I don't remember a lot of how things developed that far back, although my mother did eventually have all the movies on VHS, and we watched those a lot. I fell in love with DS9 almost as soon as it started and watched it all the way through on the first run (except for mid sixth to mid seventh season, when the television was broken). For a long time I watched Voyager and Enterprise regularly, too, but never got so deeply interested in either of them.
We also spent a lot of time going to conventions throughout the nineties, dressing up, buying memorabilia and so on, though after several consecutive moves, most of that is gone now, and I'm only just getting around to building up my dvd collection (currently have all the movies I intend to buy, plus DS9 seasons 4-7, just now rewatching 4 which only was delivered this weekend).
At the beginning of 1969, my Year 5 teacher started a wallchart for recording our weekly dictation and spelling results, and he called it "5A's Star Trek". I knew it was a reference to TV's "Star Trek", but our family's b/w television was in my grandmother's lounge room. Watching primetime TV was a very special privilege ("Batman", "Captain Nice", "Mr Terrific", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "The Wonderful World of Disney", "Wild Kingdom") but we were probably in bed before "Star Trek" came on. (8.30pm?)
I also knew kids who collected the gum cards (Scanlens', not Topps', Down Under), but we were discouraged from eating bubblegum.
My early memories of catching episodes included b/w versions of TAS - "Yesteryear", "The Jihad", "The Ambergris Element", "'Bem", "Albatross", "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", "The Counter-clock Incident" - and, in late 1975, when Australia got colour TV - special presentations of TOS, including "The Devil in the Dark", "Spectre of the Gun" and "Miri".
I also knew kids who collected the gum cards (Scanlens', not Topps', Down Under), but we were discouraged from eating bubblegum.
My early memories of catching episodes included b/w versions of TAS - "Yesteryear", "The Jihad", "The Ambergris Element", "'Bem", "Albatross", "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", "The Counter-clock Incident" - and, in late 1975, when Australia got colour TV - special presentations of TOS, including "The Devil in the Dark", "Spectre of the Gun" and "Miri".
In 1992 I was in the hospital for three weeks after I dislocated my elbow and fractured my arm in a tramopline acccident. I'd never watched television before that, and there I discovered not only Star Trek,but Batman and a variety of 50s and 60s-era sitcoms. I can't remember much about the TOS episodes I saw, but I remember stumbling upon a new episode of Star Trek TNG and having the same experience that people who grew up with TOS might have had when TNG aired. Namely, I wondered: who do these people think they are? Who is that bald guy, and that guy trying to look cool with the gold sunglasses or whatever? Where's KIRK? To this day I associate TOS with hospitals and vice versa.
After the hospital I discovered a friend of my mother's had a great many episodes on VHS, and she lent them to me; the first I remember seeing was "Spectre of the Mind's Eye". In seventh grade I found out that I could tune into CBS on Saturday nights and watch episodes of Deep Space Nine, which became "my" series because it was the ONLY one I ever got to watch while it aired. (My parents were against television, so we didn't have cable or anything, just a black and white box that could pick up CBS and ABC.) Despite this I started a Star Trek Fan club in middle school that consisted of two people. We called each other by names from the series. I was Sisko and my best friend was Data.
In high school (1999-2003) I often stayed up all night playing Elite Force CTF matches, and since Voyager was still airing at the time people would talk about the latest episodes while we fired explosives at one another. I remember those conversations/sniping duels fondly.
After the hospital I discovered a friend of my mother's had a great many episodes on VHS, and she lent them to me; the first I remember seeing was "Spectre of the Mind's Eye". In seventh grade I found out that I could tune into CBS on Saturday nights and watch episodes of Deep Space Nine, which became "my" series because it was the ONLY one I ever got to watch while it aired. (My parents were against television, so we didn't have cable or anything, just a black and white box that could pick up CBS and ABC.) Despite this I started a Star Trek Fan club in middle school that consisted of two people. We called each other by names from the series. I was Sisko and my best friend was Data.
In high school (1999-2003) I often stayed up all night playing Elite Force CTF matches, and since Voyager was still airing at the time people would talk about the latest episodes while we fired explosives at one another. I remember those conversations/sniping duels fondly.
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