How has your spouse responded to Star Trek?

[AFEK ESLCAFE W]

My wife also likes Star Trek - she didn't really watch the show before we got married, but the more she watched the more she liked it. I'm pretty sure Voyager is her favorite series. She's not at the Star Trek convention point yet, but maybe someday...

My wife has lived in South Korea all of her life, so she would be quite shocked to realize that there were conventions revolving around this filled with dealer rooms, cosplays, and TV guests from 45 years back...

No, she can just tell by the look in my eyes and the glee I feel everytime I think or watch the shows or movies that that's all she really needs to know.

 

[Tiberius]

My girlfriend loves it.

 

[Forbin]

I pity my friend Frank, who married a mundane.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

My wife, for the most part, puts up with it good-naturedly, even after I've dragged her to a lot of movies and she's sat through a lot of episodes of various series.

Interestingly, the first one she really enjoyed was Star Trek (2009). Afterward I asked her how it was different from the last few Trek movies she had seen (Nemesis, Insurrection), and her reply was simply "This one was actually entertaining."

 

[Killandra]

My fiance is a Trekkie too so I lucked out, but according to my fiance I am obsessed to the point its scary...*glares at fiance who can rattle off entire scripts from TNG word for word along with episode number, set designers, etc. and is currently reading Voyager fan fiction...* I can't do that, but somehow I'm the obsessed one?

 

[AFEK ESLCAFE W]

I also showed a South Korean friend the first 7 Star Trek feature films back in 2005. He didn't like 5 and 7 (Especially in regards to Kirk's cinematic demise.). His favorites were 3 and 4. He had already seen 8 and really enjoyed that one, too. And, he also got a kick out of the J.J. Abrams' version in theatres in 2009.

 

[maneth]

My husband and I are both casual fans, in the sense that we've watched all the shows and most of the movies together, but don't buy merchandise or go to cons.

 

[sbk1234]

My wife basically puts up with it. Not a fan herself, but doesn't mind my watching it. Actually enjoys an episode or movie here and there. Making it easier is the fact that her dad and brothers are all big sci-fi fans, including Trek. So she can't really slam it too bad, since she thinks highly of dad and brothers.
(I also get to go to conventions with my father- and brothers-in-law, so that's cool.)

 

[Brennyren]

I met my husband in a Star Trek fan club, so he handles my interest in the show pretty well! He's actually seen more of DS9 and ENT than I have, though I've been more active in fandom. We go to the occasional con together.

 

[Shanndee]

My husband has been really generous with his acceptance of my Trek love. He is a Star Wars guy himself, but he took me to a local Star Trek con in 2010 and to the Las Vegas con last year. He had a good time, but he has informed me that he has "retired" from conventions now!

He does like DS9 and TNG, but he finds TOS too dated to really enjoy. He did give the remastered season 1 Bluray a chance...he gave it good grades for the most part, but I could tell he was trying to be nice!

 

[Trek Survivor]

My wife (who had never seen Trek before meeting me!) enjoyed TNG and DS9 but we gave up with joint watching Voyager during season 2. Haven't tried Enterprise yet (either of us) and she's not interested in the original series either. She enjoyed the 2009 film a lot.

 

[22 Stars]

My wife is a Trek fan and into her own geek culture stuff. She wanted a Yoda backpack and now she has one. She loves all things sci-fi and geek genre related and I love her! Plus she is cute!

 

[Satyrquaze]

My girlfriend was an unrepentant Star Wars, Doctor Who, anime fan. Having never been exposed to Star Trek other than seeing part of an episode here or there on TV.

Yet, she would unabashedly declare that Star Wars was the superior franchise in everyway. Even going so far to point out that Star Wars was much more successful at the box office. To which I replied that 'by that logic "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" must be the best piece of cinema ever produced by man'.

Still, since we started dating about a year and half ago, she's seen most of the Star Trek movies (I skipped TMP and TFF), a good percentage of TNG and we're now halfway through season 2 of DS9.

She recently admitted to me that likes Star Trek and loves the characters of Kira and O'Brien.

We both have our own seperate things we're into, but we have loads of common ground. I'm ridiculously lucky she's in my life.

 

[Balrog]

My wife was not a fan before we started dating. She started watching TNG around season 5 and when it went into second-run syndication. We got married about the time DS9 got going and we both loved it. She's still not a fan of TOS, VOY OR ENT.

We went to the Star Trek Hilton when it was up and running,and she had a great time. We also went to our first con this year and we got to meet a few actors. She can't wait to go again!

 

[Anji]

Save yourself the time and effort: marry a Trekkie like I did.

 

[Satyrquaze]

Save yourself the time and effort: marry a Trekkie like I did.

That's somewhat easier for a female to do, than a male.

 

[1001001]

My wife has embraced it....

Mine too.

 

[Shanndee]

Anji wrote:
Save yourself the time and effort: marry a Trekkie like I did.

That's somewhat easier for a female to do, than a male.

I realize that this is true...but it is funny how individual experiences can vary. From junior high through to 3rd year university my female friends and I (all Trekkies) could not find a male Star Trek fan. We met several more female Trekkies, but not one male.

I remember one particularly stressful exam period where we went to the river to de=stress and we spent the afternoon turning over rocks to to see if they might be hiding there...

 

[Satyrquaze]

^ I fully believe that. However, when I was in in junior high, I was ridiculed for being a fan of Star Trek. What few other fans I could find were also male.

But, when I was about 14-15, I recall meeting this lady in the park near my house (our dogs introduced us) she was maybe 10 years older than I was. She was pretty cool, and attractive. At the time TNG was my favorite show on television, so I said I have to get home to watch my favorite show. She surprised me by asking: "Star Trek?" And admitted she was about to leave for the same reason. I immediately developed a crush on her. But, we parted ways and I never ran into her or her dog again.

 

[Shanndee]

Isn't it amazing how our dogs can introduce us to random strangers that we actually share interests with?

I often thought that if I hadn't left my home province to study (leaving my family dog with well, my family!) and home computers hadn't been in their infancy, my social life would have been a lot more...social!