Introducing Star Trek to your kid(s)

[Agony_Boothb]

I have a 4 year old and a 7 year old. They both love TOS (favorites by their own choice are Arena, Corbomite, and Tribbles). 7 year old is starting to watch some TNG with me, but you need to pick carefully. Some can be rather boring for a kid that age.

Also: my 7 year old has seen all the TOS movies. He loves TMP and TSFS. The 4year old has only seen TMP and asks for it rather frequently.

I first watched TMP as a re-run one afternoon when i was 8 or 9 and remember loving it. Although i got a bit scared by the transporter accident. Now if i try and watch TMP I will without a doubt fall asleep.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I tried watching TAS with my son last year and he seemed to enjoy it! He started asking questions about the Klingons and their pink attire!

???
Kzinti in pink, I can remember (albeit jogged a bit by Damian's current avatar), but I don't remember no Klingons in pink. Magenta blood, yes, but pink uniforms??

(And of course, the Kzinti are a transplant from Niven's own milieu -- do they wear pink there, too?)

 

[johnnybear]

TAS Klingons had pink tabards, Jim! Maybe they didn't know to do fizzy gold on cartoon that or like they say Lou Scheimer was colour blind!
JB

 

[Delta Vega]

My kids used to watch DS9 and Voyager along with me, and latterly when they had grown into adults, Enterprise.
They seemed to enjoy the shows.
But my oldest son's first reaction to Star Trek (original) was to burst out into uncontrollable laughter at the Shat

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Huh, this brings up an Idea that I hope some of the authors here could pass on to Trek Lit honcho's..
Any Young Adult Star Trek novels out there? I don't know if there is a Starfleet Academy book series curently being written. Most of the rest of the books are PG so there good for the kids to read already, but having a main protagonist being late teen, either in the academy or trying to get in to it. Or a kid on a starship, and his trials and tribulations.

Off the top of my head, the only Starfleet Academy books I know about are the ones with the Next Generation characters (Worf, Beverly Crusher, LaForge, and Data) and Deep Space Nine books focusing on Jake Sisko and Nog's adventures. There was a recent Starfleet Academy comic book from IDW set in the Kelvinverse that features Jaylah, but that might be for teenagers, tweens, and young adults (although you could see if a younger child could read it and understand it.) Other than that, I don't think there's much else.

I do wish that a series of books similar to the Star Wars:Jedi Academy books were being published by Simon & Schuster in partnership with Scholastic; those are targeted at younger readers, have a young boy who becomes a Jedi padawan, and are quite funny.