I grew up in the 1970's and have this childhood memory of eating Chinese food and watching Star Trek (original series) on Sunday afternoons. I don't have cable TV and never got into the subsequent Star Trek spinoffs. But my wife got me the first season DVD's recently from a public library and I've begun watching them. Oh my god... After 30 years... I seem to be headed toward clinical Trekkie/Trekker... It was there all this time, but I resisted. Anyone else here grow up watching Gilligan's Island, Wild Wild West, Land of the Lost, Scooby Doo, and play with Micronauts as a kid? Ah...to be a product of the 70's. When Sesame Street had great music...
I've resisted...
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TheLonelySquire
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I'm right there with you, bro. You HAVE to watch it in B&W too!
Feel free to participate in my monthly threads on Trek Pasta Night. Feel free to do it yourself. Basically, once a month I make baked stuffed shells, spaghetti or ravioli, cook up garlic bread, meatballs, etc.. I watch a couple of eps while I cook and have a couple cold brews. It is similar to your Chinese Sundays.
Actually, I love Chinese and a Trek Movie Night. Chow Fun!
Welcome to the boards. If you want to maintain your new-found enthusiasm, try not to get sidetracked into the more absolutist arguments about the show you'll find hereabouts. TOS is just a whole lot of fun.
Star Trek is the second TV programme I remember watching as a kid, The Return of the Archons was the episode too IIRC.
Although I am somewhat newish, welcome pfbram. I did all those things you mentioned, including Space 1999, Quark, Scavenger 1, the disturbed oeuvre of Sid and Marty Krofft (Shazam!, Isis, Land of the Lost, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Ark II), as well as playing outside, sometimes with -gasp- no technology whatsoever!
Hey, you think we could come up with a class action suit against the Krofft brothers for mental anguish?
Hey, you think we could come up with a class action suit against the Krofft brothers for mental anguish?
Yeah, wasn't it great to see TOS for the first time? Some of it still holds up quite well.
You should try some of the newer Trek. You might be pleasantly surprised. Some of it was quite good and worthy of the Star Trek label.
A little earlier than you, it looks like, but these were weekly viewing when I was growing up.
Twelve posts in and nobody has said it yet? Far be it from me not to be trite:
Resistance is futile.
Welcome to the cult, pfbram. Feel free to drink the Kool-Aid.
And I agree with M'Sharak. I think he and I are about the same age. I was a child of the '60s. The only difference between you and me, pfbram, is that when I was watching Star Trek in the '70s, it was in the fraternity house, with my college buddies, drinking beer and smoking pot.
Resistance is futile.
Welcome to the cult, pfbram. Feel free to drink the Kool-Aid.
And I agree with M'Sharak. I think he and I are about the same age. I was a child of the '60s. The only difference between you and me, pfbram, is that when I was watching Star Trek in the '70s, it was in the fraternity house, with my college buddies, drinking beer and smoking pot.
Actually, non of your parenthetical references was a Krofft production.
You need to see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpt9iicEow
...does anyone remember Major Matt Mason? I had the vinyl fold-out "bridge" set... when you folded it back up it was like a lunch box sized carry case. I went to the moon and Mars many times during play.
When I was little we were allowed one hour of TV per week. It was Batman & The Green Hornet. Sometimes we got to see Flipper as well. I didn't see ST until the 70's in reruns.
I'm still making my way through the episodes of season 1, original series, and doing a little psychoanalysis on myself. Now middle-aged, I originally saw these around age 6-8 or so. So I can do a little personal reflection and determine how much I remember or was influenced by, 30+ years later.
* Curiously, I didn't remember Yeoman Rand.
* I did remember the cheesy fake cave backdrops.
* Curiously, I didn't remember Yeoman Rand.
* I did remember the cheesy fake cave backdrops.
Land of the Lost and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were (at least some episodes), at least according to IMDB.
Re: Major Matt Mason. All my astronauts were eventually paralyzed when those damn internal wires busted.
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Yeah...I've done the psychoanalysis thing sometimes too. It's a little scary to me how many of my life decisions have been influenced by the humanistic-type ideals of Capts. Kirk and Picard.
And you probably don't remember Rand because she didn't appear in any episodes of The Conscience of the King.
Who hasn't? A puppet flute with a flapping mouth and head that has visible strings? Good old fashioned nightmare fuel if you ask me.
