I didn't like Star Trek before, and I always wonder why people love it so much for me was a waste of time, but once like 8 years ago I was bored and start watching TNG episodes, I didn't like it but it grew on me, to the point that I watch every single episode, and after it was over I didn't wanna watch another series so I start it again I did this like 3 to 4 times, because I I was thinking that I won't like the other series like TOS , but at a point I started watching TOS the same way from the first to the last episode and as with TNG I watch it several times, for me that was it all k wanted to watch was TOS and TNG became obsessed with it watching and rewatching everyday. Recently I was watching TBBT and they mention DS9 trouble with tribles remake so I search for the episode and watch it didn't like it because I didn't know the characters, but again I start it from episode one and watch the whole series and became hooked with DS9, h used to hate the ferengi and because of quark I change my perspective (Quark, Garak and Odo are my favorite characters on DS9) . Any ways I notice that I watch Start Trek everyday, if I feel sad or tired or have problems I watch Star Trek, it's like an escape for reality to me , I'm obsessed with it make me ponder, wonder about space about life and other things I use Star Trek to escape reality to Escape Problems and daily life issues for a few hours at night after work I feel happy and that I belong, and it's all because I watch Star Trek and for a moment I forget about all the issues of life and immerse my self in to the series , and this is from a person that before thought that Star Trek was useless and childish. I wonder if there are others that have this feeling of belonging and escape when watching it.
Star Trek obsession
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I was never a Star Trek fan, though I didn't dislike it actively I had just never really 'taken the plunge'. Maybe it always felt like there was a lot of it and it was too intimidating. Maybe it was because I felt like everyone in the world who liked Star Trek already liked it, had already seen and learned everything about it. Almost like there was no such thing as a 'new' Trek fan, they had always already been there.
But finally I decided to just go for it, see how I felt. It took a while. I totally relate that it wasn't immediate falling in love...I decided to watch roughly chronological and starting with TOS and early TNG required some adjusting to a very different TV feel than what I was used to.
But after a while, I slowly realised I was becoming addicted...and by the time I'd finished TNG and then particularly once I got about a season into DS9, it became a whole world to me, one that was kind of consuming and all-encompassing and just, well, unbelievably homely.
It wasn't the big scary nerd world that was forbidden to the uninitiated anymore. It was home! It gives a sense of belonging, with those crews, those aliens, on those planets, ships and stations.
And it came for me at a very uncertain, drifting, depressive time in life when that feeling of immersion was everything I needed.
So I totally understand!
But finally I decided to just go for it, see how I felt. It took a while. I totally relate that it wasn't immediate falling in love...I decided to watch roughly chronological and starting with TOS and early TNG required some adjusting to a very different TV feel than what I was used to.
But after a while, I slowly realised I was becoming addicted...and by the time I'd finished TNG and then particularly once I got about a season into DS9, it became a whole world to me, one that was kind of consuming and all-encompassing and just, well, unbelievably homely.
It wasn't the big scary nerd world that was forbidden to the uninitiated anymore. It was home! It gives a sense of belonging, with those crews, those aliens, on those planets, ships and stations.
And it came for me at a very uncertain, drifting, depressive time in life when that feeling of immersion was everything I needed.
So I totally understand!
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