News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+

[Jayson1]

I can’t speak to my fellow Millennials, but I’ve been a big fan of the classics from before my time for almost as long as I have been alive.

More good news.

 

[I am not Spock]

New fans would fall in love with some of these older characters for the very first time! Is Gen X the last generation to truly enjoy anything that wasn't made specifically for them? We loved all sorts of old tv shows and movies made for Boomers or even The Greatest Generation. Young people seem like some of the style aspects of the past like clothes and tech but seem to have zero media literacy about anything made before 2016.

i'm an early millennial , born early 80s, and love the classics. 1960s television was still repeated quite a lot when i was a kid in late 80s, early 90s . I loved Bewitched, Get Smart, Batman, Twilight Zone, and Star Trek.

 

[UssGlenn]

i'm an early millennial , born early 80s, and love the classics. 1960s television was still repeated quite a lot when i was a kid in late 80s, early 90s . I loved Bewitched, Get Smart, Batman, Twilight Zone, and Star Trek.

same here. Nick at Nite did a lot of the heavy lifting here. F-Troop!

 

[Jayson1]

I liked all of those except Star Trek. Don't know what it was about me or why I didn't get into Trek until I was a teenager in 1993 or 1994.

 

[Danja]

same here. Nick at Nite did a lot of the heavy lifting here. F-Troop!

Gen-X here ...

 

[cooleddie74]

I don't think it was ever on Nick at Nite, but this is one of my go-to '60s TV jams.

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[Tiran O'Saurus]

Not entirely. Some of my friends have been raising their kids with older stuff.

Yes, but are said kids "truly enjoying" the old stuff?

 

[Jayson1]

I still think people are to harsh on GoBots.

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[fireproof78]

Resting on the past doesn't strike me as good business sense.

 

[Commander Troi]

Yes, but are said kids "truly enjoying" the old stuff?

They like a lot of the 70s and 80s music.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I grew up in the golden age of reruns. So I was exposed to a ton of what was "before my time." TV channels were full of old TV shows and movies. And of course oldies radio stations. I guess my generation could be called a "captive audience". We couldn't curate what we watch in the same way the generations that follow do.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I grew up in the golden age of reruns. So I was exposed to a ton of what was "before my time." TV channels were full of old TV shows and movies. And of course oldies radio stations. I guess my generation could be called a "captive audience". We couldn't curate what we watch in the same way the generations that follow do.

Star Trek and I Love Lucy define the Golden age of reruns and its impact on television. Besides Star Trek (and Lucy!), I discovered shows like Cheers, MASH, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore and many many others through their reruns. The reruns would steer me towards the new episodes of the show which often, including three of the four examples above, were still on the air producing new episodes at the time that I discovered them in syndicated rerun.