Welcome Fellow Trekkies! The GTD Get to Know You thread
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My wife isn't much of a fan of either, although if she had to choose I bet she would choose Star Wars because to her Star Trek is just "people standing around talking."
Hello all, just thought id drop in and say hello. Im a 3D Artist and I used to be active in some of the 3D forums back in the 2001-2004 time frame. After I got busy work work, and life in general, I stopped working on personal projects. But now amid the virus shutdowns, I seem to have alot more time on my hands.. so Ive been coming back to some now ancient projects and getting back into the forums scene 
Hello everyone.
I'm a reporter for The Cinema Spot. I regularly get access to and share insider information on Star Trek and other franchises. I've currently only seen Discovery and Picard but I'm planning on seeing the old shows soon. If you have any questions about my credibility or the future of Star Trek, please let me know!
I'm a reporter for The Cinema Spot. I regularly get access to and share insider information on Star Trek and other franchises. I've currently only seen Discovery and Picard but I'm planning on seeing the old shows soon. If you have any questions about my credibility or the future of Star Trek, please let me know!
Hi Vullein!
Ok, Ill bite whats your take on the future of Star Trek? And why should we believe you? 
j/k
Ok, Ill bite
whats your take on the future of Star Trek? And why should we believe you? j/k
Hi Vullein!
Ok, Ill bite
Hi
Well, I can tell you that financially, Star Trek is doing better than ever. All that bs you can find on YouTube about shows being canceled or ViacomCBS not being able to find international distributors for shows is all fake. They're currently working on around 12-13 shows, all in various stages of development.
If you don't get hung up on the 60s special effects, there are some awesome stories.
Hello everyone, Long time lover of all Trek series. Active and avid Trek Role Player on second life and love to connect with other like-minded beings!
I saw the episode in reruns was 13 in the 1980s.
Howdy. When I was a little kid - starting at 2 or 3 years old - I would wake up in the wee hours of Saturday morning in my pj's, sit in front of the tv eating my Pac-Man cereal and watch cartoons for hours on end, Come 1 or 2 in the afternoon, desperate to keep the entertainment going, I would keep looking for good shows as the cartoons waned. Some glorious channel showed TOS repeats on Saturday afternoon, blessings of the wormhole aliens be upon them. It wasn't quite a cartoon, but it was a show about space adventurers in colourful outfits so...close enough. They showed these repeats for years and years, to the point I'd watched the whole series many times over when one Saturday afternoon in late 86/early 87 my dad saw me, 9 years old, watching Star Trek as usual, and told me he had heard that they were making a new show. Sure enough, from the ages of 10 to 28 - all through my adolescence and young adulthood - there were 1 to 2 new episodes of Star Trek every broadcast week, plus movies every few years. I got into the novels (I have over 200), and the comics (I have several hundred), started watching fan shows (Continues, Renegades, etc.), and video game walk-throughs and listening to podcasts as the internet rose to prominence, watched all the episodes of the new shows (Picard, Discovery, After Trek, Ready Room, Lower Decks and Short Treks), though I'm not the biggest fan of much of the new stuff...basically, I've loved Star Trek as long as I can remember. Like Superman and the original Star Wars trilogy, I don't remember a time in my life I wasn't enjoying it. I love me some Star Trek.
Hi, I have been a Trek fan since it first aired on BBC One, July 12, 1969, with the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". I haven't been into science fiction or Trek for quite a while (life kept getting in the way) but my interest in Trek was rekindled by Discovery - no irony intended - and in science fiction, in general, by The Expanse.
I used to hang out at the old HelixBBS way back when.
Hope to see you all...out there.
Galaxy Child
I used to hang out at the old HelixBBS way back when.
Hope to see you all...out there.
Galaxy Child
I’ve been hooked on Star Trek since ‘82 when as an impressionable 11 year old, I caught ST:TMP on tv several times in the background while doing other things (just happened to be tuned in.)
Yes I said ST:TMP, lol. I like that film. Later found ST:TOS reruns on one of the four or five channels we could tune into back then.
Later learned, while reading a Wrath of Khan novelisation in a shop with no intentions of purchasing it, that Spock had died.
My world crashed and burned all around me. Left the shop in tears.
Towards the end of the 80’s, I let Trek go for 20 years until I jacked into the matrix and discovered all the fanfic I’d missed. Lots of crap, lots of great stuff.
A ten year stint in the army saw me leave Trek behind again for the most part.
Now, in midlife crisis, I’m rediscovering ST again. I’ve missed most of what wasn’t directly TOS-related. Edited 26 Aug 2020, because some members in this forum have gently, humorously encouraged me to open my mind to non-TOS. I reply in my head that the world that came before is already so richly populated and studded with lore that I may never get beyond it.
Yes I said ST:TMP, lol. I like that film. Later found ST:TOS reruns on one of the four or five channels we could tune into back then.
Later learned, while reading a Wrath of Khan novelisation in a shop with no intentions of purchasing it, that Spock had died.
My world crashed and burned all around me. Left the shop in tears.
Towards the end of the 80’s, I let Trek go for 20 years until I jacked into the matrix and discovered all the fanfic I’d missed. Lots of crap, lots of great stuff.
A ten year stint in the army saw me leave Trek behind again for the most part.
Now, in midlife crisis, I’m rediscovering ST again. I’ve missed most of what wasn’t directly TOS-related. Edited 26 Aug 2020, because some members in this forum have gently, humorously encouraged me to open my mind to non-TOS. I reply in my head that the world that came before is already so richly populated and studded with lore that I may never get beyond it.
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Hello!
We're new here, but one of us (the Grandfather) is old and has been watching Star Trek for 40 odd years and the other (the Grandchild) is much younger and has slowly been getting into Star Trek.
After 'leeching' from the Star Trek community for so long, one of us (the Grandfather) has decided to try and give something back to the Star Trek community by mixing Star Trek with our other major interest, retro computing in particular, old 8- and 16-bit Commodore machines.
We have created a Twitter account where we draw Star Trek characters using Commodore64 PETSCII, hence our name here, Star Trekscii. It's a little niche, mixing Star Trek and Commodore64, but there may be something here you enjoy:
https://twitter.com/StarTrekscii
The Grandfather is currently rewatching Deep Space Nine with the Grandson, who is watching for the first time! We've just reached Season 7.
We hope to join in on the forum regularly and share Star Trek experiences with like-minded people!
Qapla'
We're new here, but one of us (the Grandfather) is old and has been watching Star Trek for 40 odd years and the other (the Grandchild) is much younger and has slowly been getting into Star Trek.
After 'leeching' from the Star Trek community for so long, one of us (the Grandfather) has decided to try and give something back to the Star Trek community by mixing Star Trek with our other major interest, retro computing in particular, old 8- and 16-bit Commodore machines.
We have created a Twitter account where we draw Star Trek characters using Commodore64 PETSCII, hence our name here, Star Trekscii. It's a little niche, mixing Star Trek and Commodore64, but there may be something here you enjoy:
https://twitter.com/StarTrekscii
The Grandfather is currently rewatching Deep Space Nine with the Grandson, who is watching for the first time! We've just reached Season 7.
We hope to join in on the forum regularly and share Star Trek experiences with like-minded people!
Qapla'
Hi.
(And this is a little long but I just felt like typing... It’s a Sunday, what can I say… )
Anyway, my earliest memories of watching Star Trek are from The Original Series syndication in the mid 70s. I remember always having to go with my parents to my great aunt’s house on Sunday afternoons, and while they were off talking I was in another room watching Star Trek on the local UHF station (WKBD, Channel 50 in Detroit). Looking back, that’s some of the fondest memories of my life.
I had to have been 5 or 6-years old, because I remember having the Mego Star Trek action figures. I was born in 1970 so it had to have been ’75 or ’76 because I believe they stopped making those around ’77 when Star Wars took over.
Fast-forward to 1987 and The Next Generation and… I don’t remember ever liking that. It debuted during my senior year in high school so it should have been right in my wheelhouse, but it just never connected. Unbeknownst to me, I suppose at the time I was gatekeeping in a way. I mean, it was obviously Star Trek, but it wasn’t very good Star Trek in my view. So I stopped watching after a few episodes. It wasn’t the original Star Trek, it wasn’t cool, it was just nerdy and boring as hell (again, in my view).
Moreover, it was like, “It’s 1987 and this is the best you can do? The show from the sixties looks better than this… way better.” I imagine my reaction was also a case and an example of liking what you first saw, what you were first introduced to, and anything that wasn't just like that wasn't going to work.
I’d of course always check in from time to time, but nothing. Out of the seven seasons of The Next Generation I may have seen a dozen episodes… maybe. The same for Deep Space Nine. Although, with Deep Space Nine I may have watched around 15 or 20 episodes because I remember really digging Sisko’s bald head and goatee. He looked cool. Voyager, like Next Generation, I may have watched a dozen episodes during it’s entire run. Enterprise, I have never watched a full episode of that, just bits and pieces of a few episodes.
Movies. I remember seeing The Motion Picture in theaters, I don’t remember much about it though. Oddly, I don’t remember ever going to the theater to see The Wrath of Khan. I may have or I may haven’t, I honestly don’t remember. And I honestly don’t remember if I’ve even seen the movie period. I know of it, obviously, but I really don’t believe that I’ve ever watched it because I don’t remember anything from it. Apparently, according to my mother, I have seen The Search for Spock. Although, again, I’m like, “I have? I don’t remember seeing that…” Generations I have seen… somehow. I seriously doubt it was at the theater, but I have seen it… at least some or most of it, I believe. I do know for a fact though that I’ve never seen any other Star Trek movie from the original cast or The Next Generation cast, outside of bits and pieces here and there over the years.
So, given my spotty history of Star Trek fandom, why am I here? Well, because I like Discovery and Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness because of the visual eye-candy. Both were like... "Wow, now this is Star Trek!" And they had all of the aspect of Star Trek that I always loved (and then some), they checked everything on the list, and they looked cool on top of it all. Every character I enjoyed. And it was the first time ever that I liked Kirk more than I liked Spock, Both movies were damn near perfect to me. The only thing that I didn't like was that there wasn't a new episode the next week.
Star Trek: Discovery was/is to an extent the "new episode next week" that I wanted from the movies. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. And I love Michael Burnham. Some critics call her a Mary-Sue or whatever, I don't care, I like her. The fact that she's black and I'm black has a great deal to do with it, I'm sure, but that's not the most important thing. I just like the character. I mean, I didn't care about Geordi. Again, I thought Sisko looked cool as hell but I didn't have any interest in the show, so... Tuvok... yeah, I didn't care about Voyager. Travis Mayweather on Enterprise I may have liked, but since I never watched the show I'll never know. Mikey Spock, though (yes, I love the name that those YouTube guys that hate Discovery gave her), is the bestest. If I had created a Star Trek character it would be her; only she would be male because it would be me.
Anyway, I think that's enough for this post...
TL;DR (As I put up my fan-barriers) - The only Star Trek series that I like are The Original Series (Yes, I refuse to abbreviate; it’s just my thing) and Star Trek: Discovery. And the only Star Trek movies that I like are Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness. And everything else Star Trek related I’ve seen next to nothing of simply because it didn’t interest me.
Oh, and yeah, favorite Star Trek episodes are “The Vulcan Hello” and “The Cage,” and I suppose by extension “If Memory Serves.” Also, "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Favorite characters:
Michael Burnham
Spock (Discovery/Strange New Worlds version first, Kelvin Universe second, and The Original Series third)
Captain Pike (Star Trek unaired pilot version first, Discovery/Strange New Worlds version second, and Kelvin Universe version third)
(And this is a little long but I just felt like typing... It’s a Sunday, what can I say… )
Anyway, my earliest memories of watching Star Trek are from The Original Series syndication in the mid 70s. I remember always having to go with my parents to my great aunt’s house on Sunday afternoons, and while they were off talking I was in another room watching Star Trek on the local UHF station (WKBD, Channel 50 in Detroit). Looking back, that’s some of the fondest memories of my life.
I had to have been 5 or 6-years old, because I remember having the Mego Star Trek action figures. I was born in 1970 so it had to have been ’75 or ’76 because I believe they stopped making those around ’77 when Star Wars took over.
Fast-forward to 1987 and The Next Generation and… I don’t remember ever liking that. It debuted during my senior year in high school so it should have been right in my wheelhouse, but it just never connected. Unbeknownst to me, I suppose at the time I was gatekeeping in a way. I mean, it was obviously Star Trek, but it wasn’t very good Star Trek in my view. So I stopped watching after a few episodes. It wasn’t the original Star Trek, it wasn’t cool, it was just nerdy and boring as hell (again, in my view).
Moreover, it was like, “It’s 1987 and this is the best you can do? The show from the sixties looks better than this… way better.” I imagine my reaction was also a case and an example of liking what you first saw, what you were first introduced to, and anything that wasn't just like that wasn't going to work.
I’d of course always check in from time to time, but nothing. Out of the seven seasons of The Next Generation I may have seen a dozen episodes… maybe. The same for Deep Space Nine. Although, with Deep Space Nine I may have watched around 15 or 20 episodes because I remember really digging Sisko’s bald head and goatee. He looked cool. Voyager, like Next Generation, I may have watched a dozen episodes during it’s entire run. Enterprise, I have never watched a full episode of that, just bits and pieces of a few episodes.
Movies. I remember seeing The Motion Picture in theaters, I don’t remember much about it though. Oddly, I don’t remember ever going to the theater to see The Wrath of Khan. I may have or I may haven’t, I honestly don’t remember. And I honestly don’t remember if I’ve even seen the movie period. I know of it, obviously, but I really don’t believe that I’ve ever watched it because I don’t remember anything from it. Apparently, according to my mother, I have seen The Search for Spock. Although, again, I’m like, “I have? I don’t remember seeing that…” Generations I have seen… somehow. I seriously doubt it was at the theater, but I have seen it… at least some or most of it, I believe. I do know for a fact though that I’ve never seen any other Star Trek movie from the original cast or The Next Generation cast, outside of bits and pieces here and there over the years.
So, given my spotty history of Star Trek fandom, why am I here? Well, because I like Discovery and Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness because of the visual eye-candy. Both were like... "Wow, now this is Star Trek!" And they had all of the aspect of Star Trek that I always loved (and then some), they checked everything on the list, and they looked cool on top of it all. Every character I enjoyed. And it was the first time ever that I liked Kirk more than I liked Spock, Both movies were damn near perfect to me. The only thing that I didn't like was that there wasn't a new episode the next week.
Star Trek: Discovery was/is to an extent the "new episode next week" that I wanted from the movies. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. And I love Michael Burnham. Some critics call her a Mary-Sue or whatever, I don't care, I like her. The fact that she's black and I'm black has a great deal to do with it, I'm sure, but that's not the most important thing. I just like the character. I mean, I didn't care about Geordi. Again, I thought Sisko looked cool as hell but I didn't have any interest in the show, so... Tuvok... yeah, I didn't care about Voyager. Travis Mayweather on Enterprise I may have liked, but since I never watched the show I'll never know. Mikey Spock, though (yes, I love the name that those YouTube guys that hate Discovery gave her), is the bestest. If I had created a Star Trek character it would be her; only she would be male because it would be me.
Anyway, I think that's enough for this post...
TL;DR (As I put up my fan-barriers) - The only Star Trek series that I like are The Original Series (Yes, I refuse to abbreviate; it’s just my thing) and Star Trek: Discovery. And the only Star Trek movies that I like are Star Trek ’09 and Star Trek Into Darkness. And everything else Star Trek related I’ve seen next to nothing of simply because it didn’t interest me.
Oh, and yeah, favorite Star Trek episodes are “The Vulcan Hello” and “The Cage,” and I suppose by extension “If Memory Serves.” Also, "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Favorite characters:
Michael Burnham
Spock (Discovery/Strange New Worlds version first, Kelvin Universe second, and The Original Series third)
Captain Pike (Star Trek unaired pilot version first, Discovery/Strange New Worlds version second, and Kelvin Universe version third)
Welcome aboard! I, too, am originally from Detroit and also remember watching Star Trek reruns on Channel 50 during the 70's. Glad to have another Detroitite here. (sounds alien
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Hi!
I'm new here, and I'm relatively new to Star Trek in general. I watched TOS, the first six movies plus the JJ Abrams films for the first time only a few years ago (well, I'd probably seen a few scattered episodes of TOS back in the 80s when I was a kid, and I saw The Search For Spock and The Voyage Home back then sometime too, but that's it). But, from January this year, I decided to grasp the nettle and have a look at the rest of it. It took until July but I managed to watch TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, TAS, DIS and PIC in their entirety, as well as the four TNG movies. It's been a bit dizzying, a few episodes kind-of blurred together from time to time and my wife has been absolutely delighted with this Trek-centric year so far (narrator: She's been completely unimpressed, although she did concede that "I don't mind it that much, really" a couple of weeks ago), but I managed it, and I've found myself very much a convert.
Anyway through August I've been re-watching my favourite episodes from each series (well, those eps which stood out for me plus a few from each series which have been well received on numerous sites around t'internet), in the hopes of placing them in some loose, fluid order of preference. I've worked out a tentative favourite twenty shows from TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT so far, and I'm presently working through some standout episodes of TOS (rewatched The Corbomite Maneuver and both parts of The Menagerie earlier today; I'll be tackling Balance of Terror, The Galileo Seven and, hopefully, Arena later on tonight).
I'm a regular long-time contributor to a football forum (not that I care much for football anymore tbh) and I'm a moderator at a spaghetti western forum (loves me some spaghetti) but I think those folks have had just about enough of me rattling on about Star Trek so, here I am, hoping to find a home in which I can indulge my newest passion.
Thanks for reading, I'm going to go have a lurk around the boards, get a taste of the place, and I hope to chat to you all soon! xxx
TL;DR - Hi, I like Star Trek now. Do you? Cool!
I'm new here, and I'm relatively new to Star Trek in general. I watched TOS, the first six movies plus the JJ Abrams films for the first time only a few years ago (well, I'd probably seen a few scattered episodes of TOS back in the 80s when I was a kid, and I saw The Search For Spock and The Voyage Home back then sometime too, but that's it). But, from January this year, I decided to grasp the nettle and have a look at the rest of it. It took until July but I managed to watch TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, TAS, DIS and PIC in their entirety, as well as the four TNG movies. It's been a bit dizzying, a few episodes kind-of blurred together from time to time and my wife has been absolutely delighted with this Trek-centric year so far (narrator: She's been completely unimpressed, although she did concede that "I don't mind it that much, really" a couple of weeks ago), but I managed it, and I've found myself very much a convert.
Anyway through August I've been re-watching my favourite episodes from each series (well, those eps which stood out for me plus a few from each series which have been well received on numerous sites around t'internet), in the hopes of placing them in some loose, fluid order of preference. I've worked out a tentative favourite twenty shows from TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT so far, and I'm presently working through some standout episodes of TOS (rewatched The Corbomite Maneuver and both parts of The Menagerie earlier today; I'll be tackling Balance of Terror, The Galileo Seven and, hopefully, Arena later on tonight).
I'm a regular long-time contributor to a football forum (not that I care much for football anymore tbh) and I'm a moderator at a spaghetti western forum (loves me some spaghetti) but I think those folks have had just about enough of me rattling on about Star Trek so, here I am, hoping to find a home in which I can indulge my newest passion.
Thanks for reading, I'm going to go have a lurk around the boards, get a taste of the place, and I hope to chat to you all soon! xxx
TL;DR - Hi, I like Star Trek now. Do you? Cool!
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