We're getting...OLD

[RobertScorpio]

Those of us who have been around since TOS first aired? We are a dying breed. Remember growing up, and making fun of the shows your parents watched from the 50s? Now...its our turn.

I walked into a TARGET yesterday here in San Diego. And for some reason they were playing STAR TREK, Balance of Terror, on all the screens...this is a classic episode...you know the one...

No one was watching...it was just there like the paint on the wall. Just me and some old dude, older than me, gave it a glance. Kids were running by, this way and that way, and I could tell they had no idea who Captain Kirk was...

Probably how our grandparents/parents felt when youngsters would say "Who is John Wayne? Who is Bogart?"

We're getting old...but at least we have our health!!!

Rob
Scorpio

 

[MANT!]

Get off my LAWN you damn kids...Ok it's not my lawn but I like looking at it so GET OFF OF IT...



Pesky punks..in my day...we'd watch Star Trek only at night on NBC...with only re-runs in the summer...and we'd have to walk to the TV to change the channel after it was done..


punks...

 

[Broccoli]

TV...pfft...it's radio or bust.

 

[NCC1968]

I just turned 40 last month and when TNG was coming out in 1987 I refused to watch it - how dare they?
I watched it in 1992 and felt like a fool.....loved it and vowed to always give a new show a chance. I just now watched a few random episodes of Enterprise.....like it too.

Also with the passage of time I can now afford to buy all those cool toys/props - but the prices grew up over the years as well.........

 

[Jeri]

Now, now -- I think most adults still know who John Wayne and Bogart are. It's not all that dire. But I just realized yesterday after someone asked me what my Top 20 favorite shows were that I'd need 20 for each decade (starting with Howdy Doody), let alone my whole life. And then I got a shock thinking how much time I'd spent watching TV in the last 50 years or so; but what the heck, it was fun.

While I was trying to decide my Top 20 shows, I went over to Wiki and looked at the US TV Schedules; and that is what really gave me the shock. I watched a lot of TV -- despite being a good student and having friends and family, and it kind of defined my life. Just a Generation TV, I guess.

Edit: Gawd, lookit this. I was just over checking the Howdy Doody page at wiki and found this:

...In 1954, Canadian and Cuban spin-off shows were licensed using local casts and duplicate puppets.
A then unknown Canadian actor named William Shatner (who would later play Captain Kirk in Star Trek) appeared occasionally as a fill-in host on the Canadian show as "Ranger Bob." Coincidentally, another future Star Trek actor would join the Canadian Howdy Doody cast. The Canadian show starred James Doohan (the future Scotty in Star Trek) and later Peter Mews as forest ranger Timber Tom who corresponded to Buffalo Bob in the U.S. version...

 

[trekkerguy]

Those of us who have been around since TOS first aired? We are a dying breed. Remember growing up, and making fun of the shows your parents watched from the 50s? Now...its our turn.

I walked into a TARGET yesterday here in San Diego. And for some reason they were playing STAR TREK, Balance of Terror, on all the screens...this is a classic episode...you know the one...

No one was watching...it was just there like the paint on the wall. Just me and some old dude, older than me, gave it a glance. Kids were running by, this way and that way, and I could tell they had no idea who Captain Kirk was...

Probably how our grandparents/parents felt when youngsters would say "Who is John Wayne? Who is Bogart?"

We're getting old...but at least we have our health!!!

Rob
Scorpio

Odd, I love John Wayne, Humphry Bogart, and all of TOS. As do all of my younger brothers...

 

[RAMA]

My stepdaughter is 20 and she also had seen almost nothing of Trek, She thought anime and video games were cooler. She likes every ST show now to some degree or another, Voyager and Enterprise are her favorites. Errand of Mercy from TOS seemsto be her favorite from the original show.

RAMA

 

[cooleddie74]

I was born a little over five years after NBC took TOS off the air for good. I grew up as a tyke and preteen on TOS reruns and the early movies, then TNG and the new golden era of the franchise kicked in right around the time I became a teenager and entered junior high school.

 

[kissthestar]

I remember a Mad Magazine ST takeoff in the 70's in which the fan got older and older in each panel, while the ST stars remained,"...young and slim and syndicated."

 

[SiddFinch1]

I just turned 40 last month and when TNG was coming out in 1987 I refused to watch it - how dare they?
I watched it in 1992 and felt like a fool.....loved it and vowed to always give a new show a chance. I just now watched a few random episodes of Enterprise.....like it too.

Also with the passage of time I can now afford to buy all those cool toys/props - but the prices grew up over the years as well.........

I turned 40 this year as well

I watched TNG from the start but didnt really enjoy it the 3rd season

 

[jamestyler]

I'm only 25... but I got incredibly annoyed at a girl who didn't know what Spock, or even a Vulcan for that matter, was.

Though I was raised on it, I can't see how anyone could be alive and not know the two above words, even a little.

 

[btflash]

We're getting old...!!!

Rob
Scorpio[/quote]

yes, but it beats the alternative.

 

[cooleddie74]

When you're old enough to remember the Dinky Toys die-cast ships from the very first movie on store shelves and pegs along with ST:TMP Silly Putty eggs in movie packaging? You're old enough.

 

[RobertScorpio]

When you're old enough to remember the Dinky Toys die-cast ships from the very first movie on store shelves and pegs along with ST:TMP Silly Putty eggs in movie packaging? You're old enough.

Umm..yep..you're old!!

Rob

 

[cooleddie74]

When you're old enough to remember the Dinky Toys die-cast ships from the very first movie on store shelves and pegs along with ST:TMP Silly Putty eggs in movie packaging? You're old enough.

Umm..yep..you're old!!

Rob

Being 34.

It's like 14. Only much closer to death and fewer high school girls trying to blow you.

 

[DRMidnite]

When you're old enough to remember the Dinky Toys die-cast ships from the very first movie on store shelves and pegs along with ST:TMP Silly Putty eggs in movie packaging? You're old enough.

Umm..yep..you're old!!

Rob

Being 34.

It's like 14. Only much closer to death and fewer high school girls trying to blow you.

 

[gastrof]

We're getting...OLD

yes, but it beats the alternative.

Staying young?

 

[NCC1968]

Being 34.

It's like 14. Only much closer to death and fewer high school girls trying to blow you.

At 40 I can afford that to........

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I also just stopped by It's a Wrap and picked up 14 props - most fans under 25 will have to wait..............and buy them from us "old" fans in 15 or 20yrs So 20+ years of hard work nets me a costume that I can no longer fit in

 

[btflash]

We're getting...OLD

yes, but it beats the alternative.

Staying young?

no. dying!

 

[A beaker full of death]

Now, now -- I think most adults still know who John Wayne and Bogart are. It's not all that dire.

Oh, I think it is. Look at how kids watch Star Trek today. Look at the Abrams movie. They just don't get it. They see cool (or "cheesy") spaceships and laser beams, not literary writing. It really bothers me. "Dumbing down" is a real, generational phenomenon. It's not that kids are dumb. They aren't. But they're uneducated. Hell, I'm a lawyer, and very few of my peers can even write a gramatically correct sentence (let alone use a latin phrase or quote Shakespeare).