First Impressions of Trek (before you began watching)

[Shawnster]

My first impression was dark, black, with no form or substance.

Then one of my parents turned the TV on so I could watch the show. I wasn't tall enough to reach the knob.

 

[J.T.B.]

The first Trek I remember was TAS in its original run on Saturday mornings, I guess I was around 4. Then I was aware of toys and TOS shortly after, but it all kind of blurs together.



Justin

 

[Count Zero]

Some interesting stories here. I'm glad to see so many 'converts' who thought Trek was cheesy or boring at first.

 

[scotpens]

I was just starting high school when the original series debuted. (Yeah, that long ago!)

. . . The other kids at school liked it a lot, swore that it was lots better than Lost in Space.

I was starting seventh grade when the original series debuted. I was hooked from the first episode. I knew it was in a whole different league from Lost In Space. This was cool stuff.

 

[Winterwind]

I discovered TOS in re-runs when I was a kid. They were shown every weekday (an Erie, PA channel we got from the US side of the lake) when I got home from school. First episode I recall was Devil in the Dark and I've been hooked ever since.

 

[UncleRogi]

I also saw TOs in it's original run as a young' un. I got hooked so hard that I got the James Blish episode books as they came out, the first original novels as they came out, watched TAS, got those novelizations by Allen Dean Foster, and became a very young trivia champion at some of the very first conventions on the West Coast.

I was out of high school when ST:TMP came out, waited in line for like 9 hours, and saw the first showing on Dec. 9, 1979. WEnt on to see every film in it's opening week.

Was in front of the TV when TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT premiered.

I collect and read all Trek Lit, with some very hard-to-find originals in there, from before ST:TMP--all the way through the Typhon Pact and now The Department of Temporal Investigations (which is WAY cool).

I am also unaware of life without Trek!

Live Long and Prosper!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

About a year after I started watching TNG, I was catching up with a friend whom I hadn't seen in several years. I mentioned having fallen in love with TNG, and he burst out laughing. Asked if I remembered what I'd said when he'd once told me that he loved Star Trek. Nope, I didn't even remember the conversation. But apparently my response had been... "Yuck."

 

[Elder Knight]

I was just starting high school when the original series debuted. (Yeah, that long ago!)

. . . The other kids at school liked it a lot, swore that it was lots better than Lost in Space.

I was starting seventh grade when the original series debuted. I was hooked from the first episode. I knew it was in a whole different league from Lost In Space. This was cool stuff.

You deserve congratulations on being more perceptive than I was.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I didn't have any preconceived notions because I started watching when I was four. Before that, I can't recall seeing any TV at all. In fact, I can't really remember my impressions at the time. I think my memories largely come from later on, watching reruns.

 

[Anji]

I can't remember that far back. I was all of six years old when my father sat me on his lap to watch the piolet of TOS.

I can tell you my first impression: I saw Uhura. She was beautiful. I wanted to grow up to be just like her.