Happy memories connected to Star Trek

[Mage]

Last weekend, I had a wonderful moment with my sort of like adopted family situation which is difficult to explain.
But while we were sitting in the backyard, with a fire, making bread and sausages over the open fire, we started singing some songs. Afterwards we started making smores and while we were roasting the marshmallows, I started singing Row Row Row Your Boat. Two of the people there love TOS and the old movies and start singing along, in canon. Ofcourse because of the open fire and marshmallows, it connected it us all to Star Trek, and made it a core memory.

So I was just curious, what memories do you have with friends and/or family that have connection with Star Trek?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Star Trek has been the thing I've always watched first run with my Mum, since I was 6 years old.

I'm 43, and Mum is now north of 70. The tradition is still ongoing.

 

[1001001]

My first job out of college, I met a girl. She was a Trekkie.

TNG was on Saturdays at 7:00. That was our standing date night. I remember the summer after The Best of Both Worlds I, we constantly tried to figure out how the cliffhanger would be resolved.

We got married in May of 1992, on a Saturday morning. And once all our business was taken care of, we settled in and watched the new episode (I, Borg).

So yeah, lots of happy memories around TNG.

 

[Procutus]

1980, Columbus Ohio, attending my second ST convention with my dad. I can't remember why he decided to go along with me from Madison to Columbus but it was a fun time and one of the very few times that he did anything Trek-related with me (the other notable one being both him and Mom going to see ST:TMP with me on December 23 the previous year).

That convention was great; I got to meet Jimmy Doohan for a second time and Grace Lee Witney for the first time. A good time that will never be duplicated and an experience I still think fondly off (I should ask Dad the next time I talk to him if he remembers any details from that trip).

 

[XCV330]

watching TOS with my kids

 

[1001001]

My wife and I have been to tons of conventions over the years.

I’ve taken my daughter and son to one each.

My wife and I went to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas several times. I took my daughter once when she was 11.

Star Trek has been a part of our family since the beginning.

And as a final bonus, I met one of my best friends at a convention.

So many good memories!!

 

[trynda1701]

My late Dad got me into Star Trek when TOS first ran in the UK, early 70s. He also got me the first six James Blish story collections of the episodes.


Even today, if we watch a Trek episode together, my Mum, who is 93, will recite the "Space, the final frontier" opening speech in TOS or TNG!

 

[Procutus]

My wife and I have been to tons of conventions over the years.

Dude, you are lucky! My wife has only attended one convention with me, and it was one that we actually worked at. At the time, I managed a Waldenbooks store and managed to convince my district manager that we could make an extra profit that week by taking out a table in the dealer's room and selling all sorts of books and related items. As with most conventions, it took place over a weekend, so my wife was able to help me man the table when her job permitted.

Fun time, perhaps one of the best convention experiences I've ever had (and we got to meet Judson Scott on Saturday!)

 

[Greg Cox]

Too many to name. My dad let me stay up past my bedtime to watch TOS with him during its original run on NBC and, over the course of the next sixty years, STAR TREK has given me both a career and a community. Indeed, one of my first experiences of organized fandom was taking a road trip from Bellingham, Washington to Seattle (a little under a hundred miles) to see the first movie on opening night, along with pretty much my entire college SFF club and dozens of other excited Trekkies. That was a memorable night, and I've been attending fan events and college ever since. (See you at Shore Leave this summer!)

Not to mention hanging out on Trek message boards . . . .

 

[Warp Core Breach]

I suppose hanging out with my brother after school at 4pm every weekday to watch Star Trek reruns in the early 70s. I kinda blame him for my lifelong addiction/waste of time.

 

[Procutus]

^

Time spent doing what you enjoy is not wasted.

 

[Set Harth]

I want to say seeing TWOK in the theater.

But that was so long ago...

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I got into Star Trek by marathoning everything from TOS-ENT over a five year period (our five year mission) with a very special person.


They’re… gone now and because of that I didn’t go near Star Trek for over a decade. Really, joining this place a few years back brought me back in.

But yes, the majority of it will always (happily) remind me of a very specific time when I was in love with a very specific person. There’s memory after memory in it for me.

 

[Vger23]

So many great memories that it's almost impossible to put them all down.

• Going to see Star Trek movies with my dad and always having dinner at a restaurant before or after certainly stands out in my mind.
• Getting a group of over 12 people together to see the 2009 movie on opening weekend.
• Watching first-run TNG with my whole family as a kid.
• Sharing Star Trek with my wife (she particularly enjoyed binging DS9)
• Sharing Star Trek now with my sons....this is probably the best.

"Unhappy" memory:
1990, the night that TBOBW part 2 was to premier, was also our homecoming football game and dance. I was a sophomore, and played in the game that day, but I refused to go to the dance until after I had watched the resolution of the cliffhanger. Unfortunately, that night, I was supposed to meet up with a girl from the Field Hockey team at the dance. Although I did arrive at the dance (a little later), my buddy had already swooped in and stolen the girl! Snooze ya looze I guess....

The funny part is, I'm still great friends with that guy, and we are both huge Trek fans. He and I went to the very first Shatner visit at the Star Trek Set Tour in Ticonderoga (which was also a great memory).

 

[Greg Cox]

I want to say seeing TWOK in the theater.

But that was so long ago...

I saw it twice opening weekend, with two different sets of friends. (No road trips required.)

 

[Dar70]

None of my family likes Star Trek....my only friend who did like Star Trek died a couple years ago. So I have no one to talk about it with except you guys here...

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Here's one: videotaping the PRIVATE LITTLE WAR segments I missed two months previously on syndicated TV in 1984, and in so doing having every TOS episode on VHS volumes....though all but three were edited by their stations. TREK was my first complete series set, but it wasn't fully uncut until the late '90s.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Seeing ST09 on what at the time was Europe’s biggest IMAX.

I’d actually forgotten I did that until just this moment.

 

[Ceridwen]

This is more of a bittersweet memory, but my dad and I watched all of Enterprise together and taped every episode (poised with finger on the pause button to edit out the commercials). When I went away to college, we weren't always in the same room for the episodes anymore, but we would still make a point to be watching them at the same time.

My dad's barely spoken to me since I came out in the summer of 2006, so watching that show together are more or less the last positive memories I have with him. We were at my grandparents' house together when "Terra Prime" and "These Are the Voyages..." aired (he liked "Terra Prime", we did not talk much about the latter).

 

[Khamsin]

2013, it was near the end of my first year at the university. My friends and I decided to skip class and go watch Star Trek Into Darkness. We were very ambitious and highly dedicated, so we didn't skip class frequently.
It was late spring, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the whole experience felt wonderful, thrilling, and liberating.