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Earliest Star Trek memories

Unfortunately, I am far to young to remember watching any Trek series. I am told my father would rock me to sleep while watching the last season of DS9, and the last three seasons of VOY. He also tried to take me to Nemesis, when I was 3, but my mom refused.... :(




I was born May, 1998. The last season of DS9 aired in 1999, the last three seasons of VOY aired in 1999, 2000, an 2001. Nemesis aired December, 2002.
 
I recall playing Star Trek with disc shooting phasers. Also my sisters debating which character was the cutest. Sulu won that on occasion.
 
I was born after TOS went into syndication. I don't remember the first time I saw Star Trek. To me it has always been there.

My first Star Trek memory is I, Mudd and the scene where he's introducing Stella to Kirk. I thought it was cool he kept his wife in the closet.

I'd watch Trek whenever I could. Using rabbit ears and playing with the antenna, I could pull in channels from all around the viewing area. Doing this I was able to watch Star Trek 3 times on Sundays, one right after the other.
 
Good question. My dad was a fan of the show so I grew up watching it, so I don't really remember a time I didn't know who the TOS and TNG characters were. Perhaps the earliest thing I have a concrete memory of is watching "All Good Things" the night it aired. My dad had a date, and while he was gone he suggested I watch it as he heard the final episode was that night. I think I watched it with a pizza.

I had plenty of Trek experience before that and had probably seen most of TOS and TNG, but I can't really remember when I first saw a particular episode or movie (though I recall watching TVH a lot as a kid). I am also pretty sure I saw TUC in theaters when it come out, but I can't say I remember the actual trip itself.
 
My dad is a Star Trek fan so I grew up as one. My first Star Trek memory was Riker getting pulled into black oil. Followed by Commander Remick's head exploding. I don't remember any actual episodes just those moments. I was 4 during TNG's first season.
 
Unfortunately, I am far to young to remember watching any Trek series. . .I was born May, 1998. . .
You're around the age as when I first saw Star Trek. I'd been a sci-fi fan for 5 years by then, and ST got me learning about earlier classic films. Of course that was aided by the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland and we had no Internet then. I started discovering old 50's movies like Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, and George Pal's films.
 
Unfortunately, I am far to young to remember watching any Trek series. . .I was born May, 1998. . .
You're around the age as when I first saw Star Trek. I'd been a sci-fi fan for 5 years by then, and ST got me learning about earlier classic films. Of course that was aided by the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland and we had no Internet then. I started discovering old 50's movies like Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, and George Pal's films.

Sounds a lot like my childhood. I read Famous Monsters religiously and stayed up every Friday night to watch "Nightmare Theater" on Channel 7 . . .
 
I came to awareness in the early 70s when TOS was in daily syndication, though I didn't start getting into the show until my teens, so I have no specific first memory, it was just always there. Somebody bought me the Spock action figure even though I didn't watch the show...an object of much hazing perpetrated by my larger Six Million Dollar Man figures....

I was born May, 1998.
As an old fart who's been on this board since about 2001, it scares me that we now have posters who are young enough to be Bill and Monica's love child.... :p
 
I was actually nervous to post what I posted, as I thought people would shun me for being young...

I thank you for not. :)
 
The Spock action figure my father gave me as an infant, once given to him by his father in the 70s.

When I was 8 I saw TPM and WOK and later started seeing reruns of TNG on a specific channel. 2 episodes per day, starting 15 pm. The episodes I remember most distinctly having seen during that period are Future Imperfect, Allegiance, Tapestry, Frame of Mind and Parallels. My other memories, although containing many details, tend to be much more agglomerated.

I also saw some VOY episodes on the evening which aired once a week, but it never galvanized me as a kid in the same style as TNG did. I'm pretty certain that it was either S4 or S5 episodes.

EDIT: When I first saw TOS as a 16 year old, I had a strange feeling of having seen some of it before, but unfortunately I've been unable to ascertain or concretize anything. From the beginning, I've had a strong intuitive feeling that it happened even before I saw Star Wars, which occured into my 4th year.

Almost felt like when I saw Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery as a 14 year old. I had the strongest sense of familiarity to almost everything in that film.

Some years later, already having become the big Fulci aficionado who not only disrelishes anti-intellectual critics who subsume his film as exploitation but even most of his own "fans" who tragically enough simply venerates him as the "Godfather of Gore", I discovered that this was the movie that was on the same tape as Bugs Bunny and Popeye. Right after the credits for Popeye, House by the Cemetery commenced. That movie mystified me for years, and if I hadn't found that tape, I would have spent my life trying to find out which film that was and I would never have known why The House by the Cemetery seemed so familiar every time I watched it.
 
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I was actually nervous to post what I posted, as I thought people would shun me for being young...

I thank you for not. :)
I'm happy to hear that Trek is still catching on with people who aren't even quite old enough to remember much of the "golden age" of what we used to call "modern Trek" (the continuous run of one or two Trek shows at a time between 1987 and 2005). I noticed that you didn't mention Enterprise, though, which aired between 2001 and 2005.

On the general topic, one tidbit I wanted to add about my early Trek experience, from my single digits when I wasn't yet into the show....Although it wouldn't have been the first Trek episode that I ever saw, I distinctly remember having caught some of "All Our Yesterdays" mid-episode, and being under the mistaken impression that McCoy was supposed to be the bad guy.

I think that the first installment of Trek that I actually sat down and watched all the way through was TMP when they put it on Showtime ca. '80 or '81. They were doing a "sci fi" month, which is also how I first became acquainted with Forbidden Planet. First Trek movie that I saw in the theater was TSFS, because a friend took me. It was around then that I started to develop a general interest in Trek, though it wouldn't really hit me in a big way for a couple more years...which was still a couple of years before TNG came around....
 
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I was four years old in '77. My grandparents (who raised me) took me to see Star Wars. I misread Star Trek as Star Wars in the TV Guide a day or two later, watched Devil in the Dark, and I've been hooked ever since.
 
I was born in '64, and as my parents were not fans of SF, I never saw Trek in its original run, or even its very early syndication. My earliest distinct TV memory is the burning map from Bonanza (my parents enjoyed westerns and crime dramas). I began to be aware of Trek around 1972 or 73. I'm not sure that they were the first episodes I saw, but I have a very distinct memory of the half black/half white makeup from LTBYLB, and I have a very distinct memory of guys running around in a dense jungle (obviously "The Apple"). So I claim these as my earliest Trek memories.

Sir Rhosis
 
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