Star Trek memories...

[Spock's Barber]

The only time Trek was on daily here in the UK (excluding now) was in the mid seventies and the BBCs Christmas Holiday Trek as it was known! Most of us stayed in to watch that every morning before we went out to throw snowballs! I think even back then I noticed the odd BBC ordering of the episodes! With Kirk one day having short greasy hair and wearing his shrunken uniform and later wearing his silky outfit with much longer hair and sideburns and the next day back again!
JB

It’s especially obvious in S1, but even later in S3 you can see times that Kirk has his backup toupee on with a pound of greasy kid stuff holding every strand in place.

 

[johnnybear]

Back-up toupee!!!! The BBC always screened Alternative Factor in between Savage Curtain and Turnabout Intruder which was jarringly obvious!!!
JB

 

[Warped9]

Back in the 70s we had this blocky shaped black leather chair. It really evoked Kirk’s chair, but it didn’t swivel. Loved it anyway!

Building my first AMT Enterprise model kit on Christmas Day. I felt like I was holding a piece of the future in my hands. To my 11 year hands that 18” model seemed huge.

Tried to make an Enterprise out of Lego. Not so great.

I’ve always wanted a command shirt. Still don’t have one. *Sigh*

 

[johnnybear]

I had a yellow T-shirt as a kid with a brown collar which I used to think was similar to Kirk's outfit but it showed off my fat gut more than anything! I had a brown one too that fitted me much better!
JB

 

[Poltargyst]

When I was younger and even more ridiculous than I am currently, I'd pretend our side church door was an atavachron.

That is too awesome. So what time did you go to?

 

[Warped9]

That is too awesome. So what time did you go to?

Well, he’s here now, isn’t he?

 

[johnnybear]

Or the torn school fence which to us was the mouth of the Guardian of Forever!
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I honestly can't remember when I wasn't a Star Trek fan. I have dim memories of my dad letting me stay up past my bedtime to watch STAR TREK with him during its original run on NBC, and, of course, the syndicated reruns were playing constantly the whole time I was growing up.

Jumping ahead a few years, I have fond memories of going to see the first movie with pretty much my entire college SF club, which was pretty much my introduction to organized fandom.

I had a similar experience, except that mine began in 1970. I remember my first episode as a four-year-old : "The Cloud Minders." I was hooked.

My stay up late experience was getting awakened to watch Saturday night Treks around 1:05 AM (well, Sunday morning technically). The reruns were often catch as catch can, usually on the weekend, sometimes late at night, sometimes in the afternoon. For a while it was every weekday afternoon. We didn't have an aerial antenna, so we couldn't get the big city broadcast which scheduled TOS regularly like clockwork year after year; so said the TV Guide!

Since I was so young when I first saw it, there wasn't much of a before....

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Or the torn school fence which to us was the mouth of the Guardian of Forever!
JB

I remember that age. Every car was a shuttlecraft, when it wasn't the Batmobile. Every garage was a hanger deck, and that went double if there was an automatic garage door opener.

 

[scotpens]

Or the torn school fence which to us was the mouth of the Guardian of Forever!

I remember that age. Every car was a shuttlecraft, when it wasn't the Batmobile. Every garage was a hanger deck, and that went double if there was an automatic garage door opener.

And every vacant lot in the neighborhood was an alien planet!

 

[johnnybear]

Every hill and muddy field was an alien planet too along with valleys and steep banks in summer for Kirk's fight with the Gorn on the Asteroid!
JB

 

[Poltargyst]

It never worked. I didn't even get the negative purply light. We compensated by playing OPERATION ANNIHILATE with Fruit of the Loom mens' briefs standing in for the flying blobs.

Did you get one stuck on your back?

Whose were they, your dad's?

 

[Poltargyst]

Mine and my brothers's. Our father was too busy buying thousands of discounted checkered pants to participate in such idiocy.

We had each other's backs, but we left our s exposed, and, well.....you know.

Well I hope your recovery didn't require you to go blind.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Every hill and muddy field was an alien planet too along with valleys and steep banks in summer for Kirk's fight with the Gorn on the Asteroid!
JB

So true.

A tractor with a portion of its arc tire buried in the ground so that it stood upright was our Guardian of Forever.

 

[Poltargyst]

No. Our BY ANY OTHER NAME remake featured Frosted Shredded Wheat since we couldn't afford styrofoam blocks....

And did you eat the poor crewmen you crushed?

 

[Poltargyst]

No. That would be sick.
How dare you?

We left the shards on the front lawn three feet away from the gerbil cemetery, since you asked.

That is really really sad.

 

[NCC-73515]

I remember that age. Every car was a shuttlecraft, when it wasn't the Batmobile. Every garage was a hanger deck, and that went double if there was an automatic garage door opener.

I used to live at a place with 8 garages next to each other, so I simply told people I live behind the shuttlebay.

And every vacant lot in the neighborhood was an alien planet!

We had a big hole in the ground nearby cause they tore a house down to build a new one, and whenever we passed that part of the street, we said the Borg were here...

 

[Poltargyst]

Particularly when the teeny twig cross kept falling down in the muddy gravesite. We chose the ''bald spot'' on our lawn which was a result of excessive baseball games. Meanwhile ketchup was on hand in the backyard to add drama to my brothers's ''professional'' wrestling. I was easily fooled. The police were quite unsympathetic about it. Those were the days Bob Backlund was my personal role model.

I was lonely as a child. In fact, it was often when


INTERMISSION

Nooooo! You can't leave us hanging!

 

[johnnybear]

I remember having all the masks from the show as a kid and giving them to my friends as a child so we could play Star Trek out back in the garages and parks!
JB