When I saw 'The Motion Picture' as a child, I thought it was set in the modern day, it was real, and that V'Ger was launched by Galileo.
Trek Misconceptions You Had
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MollyRoger
Lieutenant Junior Grade
I thought Sulu was gay...
oh wait...
oh wait...
When I first watched "Ensign Ro" on TV, I didn't see it from the beginning, and I was very confused to see Michelle Forbes, especially when she started talking about her father being murdered when she was 7 - while I remembered her very well from an earlier episode where her father was alive at 60, married to Lwaxana and played by David Ogden Stiers. 
A similar confusion happened when I watched "Balance of Terror" - since I had seen TNG before TOS, when the Romulan Commander's face was seen and all the characters were shocked because he looked like a Vulcan, I was wondering "What the hell is Sarek doing on a Romulan ship?!"
But that confusion lasted just until the next scene when I realized he wasn't really Sarek. 
A similar confusion happened when I watched "Balance of Terror" - since I had seen TNG before TOS, when the Romulan Commander's face was seen and all the characters were shocked because he looked like a Vulcan, I was wondering "What the hell is Sarek doing on a Romulan ship?!"
But that confusion lasted just until the next scene when I realized he wasn't really Sarek. 
[/QUOUTE]I hear you.
It's great how spot on the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons is.[/QUOTE]
That character is a negative stereotype, and easily the worst part of the Simpsons. Humor is one thing, but that's just embarasing.[/QUOTE]
Stereotypes exist for a reason. There's a kernel of truth in most. That's what makes them different from lies.[/QUOTE]
Speaking strictly for myself as a Star Trek (and sci-fi in general) fan, I'm about as far from comic book guy as you can get. None of my friends who are fans act like that either. No, I stand by my assertion, that character is embarasing. I can understand that some people like him. I don't.
It's great how spot on the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons is.[/QUOTE]
That character is a negative stereotype, and easily the worst part of the Simpsons. Humor is one thing, but that's just embarasing.[/QUOTE]
Stereotypes exist for a reason. There's a kernel of truth in most. That's what makes them different from lies.[/QUOTE]
Speaking strictly for myself as a Star Trek (and sci-fi in general) fan, I'm about as far from comic book guy as you can get. None of my friends who are fans act like that either. No, I stand by my assertion, that character is embarasing. I can understand that some people like him. I don't.
I really got into Trek by watching the first three movies on tape and HBO, so for me going back to TOS it was easy to figure out Kirk, but where was my rotund, greying, mustachiod Scotsman?
JamesSmith
Lieutenant Commander
In 1994, I watched Star Trek Generations on the big screen. I saw the Enterprise's battle section explode, I thought Geordi is on the battle section.
I thought Geordi was Data and Data was Geordi because of the visor which looked like it hooked him up to a computer. I was very disappointed when it was the other way.
Oh and when I was a kid I could never understand DS9. How the hell do people in a space station live? What happens if they run out of air or food? Unless it was very,very massive and had enough air and food to last hundreds of years.
I agree to. Nicole was a much better actress then Terry.
Oh and when I was a kid I could never understand DS9. How the hell do people in a space station live? What happens if they run out of air or food? Unless it was very,very massive and had enough air and food to last hundreds of years.
I agree to. Nicole was a much better actress then Terry.
Can you say 'best case scenario'?
Sheesh, just because George Takei is gay, that doesn't mean Sulu is! It's made very clear in several episodes AND one of the movies that he likes the ladies!
My biggest Trek misconception was that a show with a guy with pointed ears was stupid. Then I actually sat down and watched it... 30+ years later, I'm still hooked... and Spock is still my favorite character.
The first time I ever looked at some of an episode, I was a little kid. It was Devil in the Dark. I saw these guys running around some tunnels shooting at a monster. I thought that was what Star Trek was: Zap at the bad guys.
It wasn't until a few years later that I looked at it again and saw what it really was about:
Hot chicks in mini skirts!
Oh, yeah, all that other stuff about philosophy and getting along, and bettering ourselves, and junk.
It wasn't until a few years later that I looked at it again and saw what it really was about:
Hot chicks in mini skirts!
Oh, yeah, all that other stuff about philosophy and getting along, and bettering ourselves, and junk.
I think one misconception I had (around 1999 or so) was that 2008 would give us Star Trek: The Third Generation, a series set on a 25th-Century Enterprise. But I was probably coming from an idea that Trek would take a 7-year break from TV after VOY, with only a couple of TNG movies in the interim...
It took me till about just before I saw Star Trek III that that and Star Trek II were the same thing as that amazing movie I saw in 1980 and that all of it was based on that TV show I saw once or twice as a little kid. I hadn't even really realized that Kirk was captain.
When I was getting in Star Trek when I was in the 5th grade, I used to think that the Enterprise-A and Enterprise-D were the same ship, only just with a new bridge. I even imagined the Enterprise-A landing on Earth and Kirk and Spock quite literally handing over the keys to Picard and Riker.
I used to think that all ST was like TOS. TNG's first season didn't do much to help that (seems in retrospect like TOS at its worst and TNG S1 are the ONLY pieces of Trek that EVER got reruns on the television growing up, so I was never interested). I hit TNG S3 and went on to finish DS9, and boy was I wrong.
I also used to think that Jadzia or Kira would be my favorite female Trek character. Then came Ezri in S7
I also used to think that Jadzia or Kira would be my favorite female Trek character. Then came Ezri in S7
When I first watched TNG I thought Data was Spock. I also thought DS9 sucked and was lame. (BTW, you people seriously liked Ezri more than Jadzia? I find that strange...oh well, to each their own.) I used to think Klingons never smiled, because Worf never did.
Damn right I do! Ezri is fantastic.
And fun fact, Worf laughs at least twice. Once when Guinan tells him that some women would find him tame, and once at the end of Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places
That depends on the space. That occupied by Jeri Ryan's Borg implants is pretty interesting from where I'm standing.
My biggest trek misconception was that everyone but me hated star trek and laughed at you for liking it...then I found this website and realised that I wasn't alone.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
One other thing I had was when I saw a promo or commercial in 1979 for TMP( before I was a fan, age 7) I guess they showed the Enterprise in space dock, but I thought it was a scene from the movie and the ship was trapped in a long corridor in space that was just the right size to fit the ship.
I thought when I finally saw the movie a few years alter that that will be a cool scene, alas it of course wasn't like that.
I thought when I finally saw the movie a few years alter that that will be a cool scene, alas it of course wasn't like that.
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