Hmm. Why Trek?

[Warped9]

When I was a kid I drew pages and pages and pages of spaceships and Star Trek stuff. I agonized over designing cool looking vehicles to look authentic and believable.

You'd think, though, that eventually you grow out of that sort of thing.

Yet here I am at 50 and I'm still at it. I still sweat the details to get things Trek related or original to look right.

Why does this kind of fascination hold us?

Any thoughts?

 

[sojourner]

Same reasons some people build model trains/planes/ships?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I think things that capture our imaginations as children, be it Trek or Superman or both in my case, linger with us into adulthood. Stick with us because it taps into the part of our psyche that wants to be awed by endless possibilities. It's like the narrator in Harlan Ellison's short story, "Jeffty is Five."

Excerpt from Ellison's "Jeffty is Five"
Things may be better, but why do I keep thinking about the past?

As much as Ellison slams on Trekkies or Trekkers or whatever, he's already wrote a story that explains perfectly the affinity for a forty-something year old television space opera. It's no different than the radio adventure programs his narrator longs to hear and is pleased to hear through Jeffty's radio. And why the narrator wants to play in Jeffty's world for as long as he can.

It's the wish in all of us to recapture a pinch of the magic we knew when we were children. And why I think we spend so much time on this board, debating the finer points of starships and warp engines and deck numbers.

 

[Klaus]

....because artistic creation truly is the Flame Imperishable. You can never outgrow it, nor should you.

 

[Warped9]

Beyond the creative impulse, and possibly tying in with wanting to recapture a touch of magic, I find it an outlet for my desire to challenge myself. It also provides an escape from the mundanity of everyday life and the illusion of working on something significant as opposed to working a day job that holds no meaning beyond the fact it's there, and if I wasn't then it would hardly make a damned bit of difference.

 

[Sarvek]

I have always loved Trek because it gives me hope for a better tomorrow. The ideals, philosophies, and the belief in doing the right thing have always been my favorite parts of Star Trek. Gene Rodenberry has always had great ideas about how the future should be. One of my favorite quotes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one." I live by this by always helping others through tough times and makeing their world better. That is who I am and what I live by.

 

[Warped9]

I have always loved Trek because it gives me hope for a better tomorrow. The ideals, philosophies, and the belief in doing the right thing have always been my favorite parts of Star Trek. Gene Rodenberry has always had great ideas about how the future should be. One of my favorite quotes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one." I live by this by always helping others through tough times and makeing their world better. That is who I am and what I live by.

True. And yet in counterpoint one of the few decent thoughts to come out of TSFS was that sometimes the needs of one outweigh the needs of the many.

 

[caisson2delta]

I know the feeling. I have been building models since I was quite young (will be 40 this year). The first kit I built, with my dad, was the Enterprise from TOS. Although I don't have the time to build as much as I would like, when I do get to build, it not only relaxes me, but reminds me of days gone by where life was much simpler. I also get a feeling of great satisfaction whenever I complete something that I have worked on for however length of time.

I am also a firm believer that any sort of creativity keeps the mind and senses sharp, as well as keeping imagination alive.