I was in kindergarten when Star Trek Generations came out and it was my first Trek movie outing. Our class had a toy rabbit everyone would take home every weekend and I got him for the weekend my family was all going to see the film. I remembering enjoying the film quite a lot and is probably the reason I like it better than others like it. I remember when the girl leaves her teddy bear behind, I had the rabbit sitting in the chair beside me, but I griped him tight after that scene. I didn't want to lose him. Anyone else have memories about seeing their first Trek film?
Star Trek Movie Childhood Memories
- Thread starter Kamdan
- Start date
My grandmother raised me and she was a huge Trekkie. She'd recorded the first four films on blank tapes and owned a store-bought copy of VI. I watched the five films over and over and over again as a kid while waiting for new episodes of TNG. (I was born in '87 right around the week TNG premiered so it was always a big thing even though I never quite got it. I loved it anyway.)
First Trek I saw in theaters was Generations too of course. Thought it was a blast back then.
First Trek I saw in theaters was Generations too of course. Thought it was a blast back then.
Sigh. I turned 21 when ST:TMP premiered Down Under.
You still got to be a kid for TOS!
My first memory of Trek was the scene in Trek 3 when Kirk is about to beam up to the Klingon ship with Spock and he looks out of the Genesis Planet. That shot, with the volcanos and all, is my earliest memory of Trek. I think it was in my primary school music class, but I'm not sure.
Me too, Therin - other than the "Down Under" part. 1979 - Those were the days!
Did you have the rabbit at the movie theater? I don't quite get that?
Nope. We shared a house with my grandparents and my grandmother owned the b/w TV, so we only got to see shows that she wanted to see, or didn't clash with her favourites. So although we got to see "Adventures of Superman", "Batman", "Fury", "Captain Nice", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Lost in Space", we only really knew TOS from the Topps gum cards (which were rebranded here by Scanlons), and playground conversations. I did catch some random TAS in b/w on a Saturday morning, but already a teen by then.
Ah, darn! Oh well... at least you caught onto how great the franchise is eventually.
As Trek and I were born pretty close together, I missed it in it's first run. But at the tender age of 5, in 1972, a local station started to show reruns daily after school. I've been hooked ever since. Heck, I even remember using Logos to build little Enterprises during recess in Kindergarten. 
I actually got into Star Trek because of Star Wars.
I was about three or four. Misread "Star Trek" for "Star Wars" in the TV Guide and the rest is history. Love Trek. Couldn't give two figs about that other one.
I was about three or four. Misread "Star Trek" for "Star Wars" in the TV Guide and the rest is history. Love Trek. Couldn't give two figs about that other one.
I was about 8 or 9 when I saw TMP in the theater. I was on a Star Wars high at the time but was blown away by TMP. I was really into Star Wars but I always remembered that really fascinating Sci-Fi movie I saw once and really wanted to see it again. I don't think I did until it aired on TV. I watched whenever I could.
Ditto. I was in college when TMP debuted.
But my dad is a science fiction fan, so he exposed meto STAR TREK during its original run on NBC. Also, THE OUTER LIMITS, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, BATMAN, and THE GREEN HORNET . . . .
My grandmother owned the TV set, so we watched what she liked, or what she was willing to tolerate. So yeah: "Batman", repeats of "Adventures of Superman" (which we assumed was a current show), "Captain Nice", the oh-so-similar "Mr Terrific", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (one of my Dad's favourites), and "Lost in Space" ("Star Trek" must have been against one of her favourite shows, or we were already in bed). We only knew "The Green Hornet" from his guest appearance on "Batman". It was a surprise to learn, decades later, that he had his own, more serious, show.
Last edited:
When I watched movies last year, I realized some scenes seems very familiar, so I must have seen them before- but at least 16 years ago and probably in German version. Opening scene of TMP, Ceti eels, Mutara Nebula, Spock's death, stealing of Enterprise, Enterprise destroyed, Kirk and 'The God', pink blood, Klingon gulag, etc. got stuck in my memory.
I was 19 when Star Trek The Motion Picture came out, so not many "childhood" memories from the movies. However, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade when I first saw Star Trek on TV (in black and white) and that episode sticks in my mind and sold me on Star Trek forever. The Original Series, season 2 episode 6 - The Doomsday Machine.
