I've still never seen TAS, and I'm 30. Heh. And I've gotta say...As a member of Red Sox Nation, I LOVE the icon.
How/When did you discover Gene Roddenberry's playground??
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I've still never seen TAS, and I'm 30. Heh. And I've gotta say...As a member of Red Sox Nation, I LOVE the icon.
My parents told me that I watched Star Trek with them as a toddler when it first ran on TV, but I don't remember this.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, Star Trek was being run in syndication, and that was when I really got caught up in it. I used to build the model kit space ships and play with them.
I also had the original MEGO Star Trek action figures, along with the playset. I fondly recall plotting out my own Trek stories at a very young age.
Sean
When I was a kid in the 1970s, Star Trek was being run in syndication, and that was when I really got caught up in it. I used to build the model kit space ships and play with them.
I also had the original MEGO Star Trek action figures, along with the playset. I fondly recall plotting out my own Trek stories at a very young age.
Sean
what broght me to trek was my dad showing me a few tos episodes must have been reruns. i thought they were pretty cool saw a few trek episodes on and off. Then i saw wrath of khan in the cinema and was blown away as i recall went to see it seven times when tng came out i wasn't sure about it and drifted off trek for awhile before ds9 came on
I read a Star Trek book when I was in sixth grade, and then I saw the TNG episode "Where Silence Has Lease". At least that's my first recollection. I may have seen an episode before that.
Reruns of TOS in the early 80s is when I first became aware of Star Trek. I think The Gamesters of Triskelion was the first episode I ever saw. The Voyage Home is what made me a huge fan and because of that movie I tuned into TNG when that first aired.
It was 1980
I was 4 and my first memory is of a shirtless Sulu waving a sword. I watched long enough to figure out it was a spaceship. Then my dad turned it off because it was too violent for me. I was hooked.
I really don't remember when or what episode i was allowed to watch after that, but i have been a Trek fan since that day in 1980
I was 4 and my first memory is of a shirtless Sulu waving a sword. I watched long enough to figure out it was a spaceship. Then my dad turned it off because it was too violent for me. I was hooked.
I really don't remember when or what episode i was allowed to watch after that, but i have been a Trek fan since that day in 1980
It's an interesting story actually.
When I was really young (About six or seven) I used to watch a show called Veggietales. And they had an episode aboard a ship called the U.S.S. Applepies (there was an apple pie where the saucer section was supposed to be). I was into astronomy at that time and while searching the guide I saw a show called Star Trek. Thinking it was an astronomy show, I turned to it. Moments later, I ran to my dad and told hime that I saw the Applepies on TV. He corrected me and said it was the Enterprise. Ever since then I was a fan.
When I was really young (About six or seven) I used to watch a show called Veggietales. And they had an episode aboard a ship called the U.S.S. Applepies (there was an apple pie where the saucer section was supposed to be). I was into astronomy at that time and while searching the guide I saw a show called Star Trek. Thinking it was an astronomy show, I turned to it. Moments later, I ran to my dad and told hime that I saw the Applepies on TV. He corrected me and said it was the Enterprise. Ever since then I was a fan.
The late 1970s. It was rerun continually on British TV - or rather, it was the only series which was rerun regularly on British TV - and I HATED IT.
The reason was that it was used as a summer replacement for British shows I loved, so the BBC announcers would say things like, 'And that's the last in the current series of Blake's 7, but next week, by popular demand, another chance to see classic science fiction as the crew of the Starship Enterprise go in search of Spock's Brain'. Why not rerun Blake, or Doctor Who, I'd think, rather than the fifth chance to see Star Trek? Particularly if the Trek repeat opened with a stinker... It wasn't that I really disliked Trek, but getting a fourth chance to see even good episodes, when there were episodes of Who and Blake I'd only seen once (or never), didn't excite me.
In later years, I found out the background - that agreements with the writers and actors unions limited the number of British shows could be rerun each year, whereas American shows could just be bought in. And Trek was the one that stayed popular how many times they ran it, so...
When did I start liking Trek? 1983. Finished my book, half hour wait til the bus home from school; there's Vonda McIntyre's novelisation of Wrath of Khan in the library... got it, started it, loved it, decided to give the series another try.
Addition: I'd half forgotten this, but my very first memory of it is seeing Yesteryear (TOS) in the mid-1970s and loving it (brainy but bullied kid wins out - perfect for me), and later being astonished to find they'd made a live action version of it, even if I didn't like it nearly as much as Doctor Who...
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First run, I saw Kirk & Spock fighting in AMOK and the Abraham Lincoln episode ... when it went into syndication in the bay area, CREATURE FEATURES ran a sneak first episode, so I stayed up to watch ... and it was SAVAGE CURTAIN!
For a few minutes there, I was wondering how many episodes Abe Lincoln did of trek.
I prefer to think of it as Gene Coon's playground, myself ... They had put the sand in the playground, and even had a couple things to climb on, but it only got the really good things (like the rocket shaped slide) when Coon came in, and after he left, it wasn't the same (although I'm sure all the great stuff in QUESTOR with the John Vernon character is his writing, I thought that was a dynamite antagonist.)
Burned out on Trek by 76 or so, then got all built up for the return to tv or movie or tv or movie ... and saw TMP, which was the biggest moviegoing disappointment of my life (It has since grown on me, but I still look at it and see what could have been and wasn't.) Liked TWOK and TFF, didn't love any of the others, that's for sure.
Except for some of DS9, ModernTrek hasn't worked for me at all. Probably because nobody thought to clone Gene Coon.
For a few minutes there, I was wondering how many episodes Abe Lincoln did of trek.
I prefer to think of it as Gene Coon's playground, myself ... They had put the sand in the playground, and even had a couple things to climb on, but it only got the really good things (like the rocket shaped slide) when Coon came in, and after he left, it wasn't the same (although I'm sure all the great stuff in QUESTOR with the John Vernon character is his writing, I thought that was a dynamite antagonist.)
Burned out on Trek by 76 or so, then got all built up for the return to tv or movie or tv or movie ... and saw TMP, which was the biggest moviegoing disappointment of my life (It has since grown on me, but I still look at it and see what could have been and wasn't.) Liked TWOK and TFF, didn't love any of the others, that's for sure.
Except for some of DS9, ModernTrek hasn't worked for me at all. Probably because nobody thought to clone Gene Coon.
Dude...
My mom watched the third season of Trek while she was pregnant with me. As a matter of fact, she was worried that her water might break during an episode and miss the ending. Nobody knew the episode would be shown a million more times the next 40 years.
Trek has always been there.
I had some monstrous poster of Shatner/Nimoy and the Galileo Seven on my wall in the mid1970's. I glued together models of the Romulan Bird of Prey and Space Station K7.
I watched TNG, but never really got into the series that followed it. Too much diplomacy and technobabble.
But I never considered myself a Trekee. I don't know where the Trekee line is to cross, but I'm not over it.
My mom watched the third season of Trek while she was pregnant with me. As a matter of fact, she was worried that her water might break during an episode and miss the ending. Nobody knew the episode would be shown a million more times the next 40 years.
Trek has always been there.
I had some monstrous poster of Shatner/Nimoy and the Galileo Seven on my wall in the mid1970's. I glued together models of the Romulan Bird of Prey and Space Station K7.
I watched TNG, but never really got into the series that followed it. Too much diplomacy and technobabble.
But I never considered myself a Trekee. I don't know where the Trekee line is to cross, but I'm not over it.
I was in about the second grade, and my mom was watching a rerun of "Charlie X". The first scene I can remember seeing is Charlie making Yeoman Rand disappear. I became an addict from that day on, and the rest, as they say, is history . . .
I remember the TV guide back in those days used to publish the episode titles of the Trek rerun that was going to air that night. I remember each night I would read the listing of the episode published in the TV guide and try to imagine what the story of that night's episode would be based on that listing. I can remember being vividly disappointed, for example, that there weren't any actual Gods destroying anything in "Whom Gods Destroy" . . .
I remember the TV guide back in those days used to publish the episode titles of the Trek rerun that was going to air that night. I remember each night I would read the listing of the episode published in the TV guide and try to imagine what the story of that night's episode would be based on that listing. I can remember being vividly disappointed, for example, that there weren't any actual Gods destroying anything in "Whom Gods Destroy" . . .
I was a physically abused child. I was always told I was no good, etc., etc. More than one night I comtemplated how to commit suicide. My fear of eternal damnation wouldn't let me do it.
In syndicated Star Trek (TOS), on a 13" black & white television, I found a world where everyone was accepted for who they are. That was it for me. I saved paper route money to buy models. I found a shirt at Goodwill that kinda looked like maybe a Star Trek shirt. When I bought the Phaser/Communicator/Tricorder AMT model kit, it became my new toy. On the farm, in corn fields, in pastures, by creeks... I discovered new worlds... I became more self-confident... I came out of my shell (not easy for a smallish, oft-beaten, shy teenager).
When I was 15 my stepdad hit me and I hit him back. I didn't stop until he was bloodied and beaten. When I came home from school next day, he was gone, we never saw him again. For awhile I became a bully myself. Once again the lessons I learned on TOS taught me to stop being like the person I hated most.
Later on when I realized I was attracted to boys instead of girls, I once again found acceptance in the world of Star Trek. It was not easy in my time to be open about being gay. (I'm still not out to family or work.)
I'm a Trek person for life. I may not like some series. I may hate one series in particular. But, always I am a fan for life.
Star Trek literally saved my life and I will forever be grateful. Perhaps that is why I am so looking forward to the next movie. The optimism and acceptance I learned from Trek gives me that same hope for the next incarnation of Trek.
In syndicated Star Trek (TOS), on a 13" black & white television, I found a world where everyone was accepted for who they are. That was it for me. I saved paper route money to buy models. I found a shirt at Goodwill that kinda looked like maybe a Star Trek shirt. When I bought the Phaser/Communicator/Tricorder AMT model kit, it became my new toy. On the farm, in corn fields, in pastures, by creeks... I discovered new worlds... I became more self-confident... I came out of my shell (not easy for a smallish, oft-beaten, shy teenager).
When I was 15 my stepdad hit me and I hit him back. I didn't stop until he was bloodied and beaten. When I came home from school next day, he was gone, we never saw him again. For awhile I became a bully myself. Once again the lessons I learned on TOS taught me to stop being like the person I hated most.
Later on when I realized I was attracted to boys instead of girls, I once again found acceptance in the world of Star Trek. It was not easy in my time to be open about being gay. (I'm still not out to family or work.)
I'm a Trek person for life. I may not like some series. I may hate one series in particular. But, always I am a fan for life.
Star Trek literally saved my life and I will forever be grateful. Perhaps that is why I am so looking forward to the next movie. The optimism and acceptance I learned from Trek gives me that same hope for the next incarnation of Trek.
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