What brought you to Trek?

[Praetor]

I was just considering the different factors that brought people into Trek. Some people were interested in sci-fi, some were intrigued by the characters, some just liked good action/adventure stories, others might like a particular race...

So what brought you in?

For me, I will admit it was the spaceships. As a kid, seeing TNG, I was utterly fascinated by the Enterprise-D and the other ships, and the technology of the show. Only when I allowed myself to look past that did I really 'get' what Trek was about, but for better or for worse, the tech is what dragged me in.

 

[Thor Damar]

The great characters and magnificent stories. The first ever episode I really watched and appreciated was DS9's Duet. It's the great sweeping sagas and the memorable people that make Trek for me.

 

[miraclefan]

Once again 'praetor' great topic! For me, I have ALWAYS been a fan of star trek as far back as I can remember! In fact the VERY first star trek episode I saw(or at least remember seeing) was the ''CAGE'' I was hooked at that point! and then I discoverd Kirk, he was definatly my favorate captain! and I loved the movies! of course I also loved TNG! and the adventures of Picard and the ENT-D every week! Now I loved everything trek inclueding ''DS9'' but then Voyager came out and, wow That was the first time I was underwhelmd by anything trek! I left trek for other things during the mid-late 90's Star gate, twilight zone, outer limites, & my two absolute favorite shows to this day! The X-files & BABYLON 5! Now what brought me back to trek was ENTERPRISE! when I first heard they were doing a ''prequal'' trek series, I honestly did not CARE! then I found out they were casting one of my favourite actors 'Scott Bakula' I thought he was a good choice for captain, but I still wasn't interasted, till I saw the NX-O1 fold-out in a issue of TV guide I saw at wal-mart! Then I said to myself, okay I'll give it a look, and After Broken Bow, I was hooked! (by the by I had no idea at the time the NX was just a redress of the akira, and when I did find out I really didn't care one bit! and I still don't!)

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not sure. I guess I liked SF shows. I was watching Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel around the same time. One of the first "real books" I recall reading was "Journey to the Center of the Earth". So the SF connection must be it. OTOH I was about 7 or 8 so it might have been the bright colors, monsters and space ships.

 

[JustKate]

I started back in the day with TOS - in its original run, my children, sooooooooo long ago. I was, I don't know, maybe 8. What does an 8-year-old girl like about Star Trek? Well, you know, I'd forgotten this until right now, but I did enjoy astronomy, as much as an 8-year-old can be said to enjoy astronomy. I still have tucked away somewhere one of the very first "reports" I did - by "report" I mean a paper that I had to research and then use my own words to describe what I'd learned. I was in 4th grade, and I wrote about the Milky Way. So maybe that was part of it.

And I liked the adventure. And the aliens. And, particularly, Spock (Kirk never did much for me, nor did Chekov, even though he was supposedly added to appeal to us bubblegummers). But I thought Spock was just about the coolest thing ever, and you know? I was right!

 

[Kelso]

I'm a geek.

You might as well ask "what brings a duck to water?"

 

[FarDreaming]

What brought me to Trek? Can I say that before the first show even aired, when I saw the promo ads that summer of '66, I decided it looked like something I would really like, and I watched every episode, reruns and all, religiously-- at least for the 1st two years. Year three, I got more selective with reruns, LOL! But then, I was a 13 year old girl who read science fiction regularly-- not a very common thing at the time.

 

[Saga]

green alien chicks.

 

[miraclefan]

^Of course!

 

[think]

I started back in the day with TOS - in its original run, my children, sooooooooo long ago. I was, I don't know, maybe 8. What does an 8-year-old girl like about Star Trek? Well, you know, I'd forgotten this until right now, but I did enjoy astronomy, as much as an 8-year-old can be said to enjoy astronomy. I still have tucked away somewhere one of the very first "reports" I did - by "report" I mean a paper that I had to research and then use my own words to describe what I'd learned. I was in 4th grade, and I wrote about the Milky Way. So maybe that was part of it.

And I liked the adventure. And the aliens. And, particularly, Spock (Kirk never did much for me, nor did Chekov, even though he was supposedly added to appeal to us bubblegummers). But I thought Spock was just about the coolest thing ever, and you know? I was right!

ahhh Spock Rocks errrr yep I was like five at the time and they would start every show with something that sounded like my last name if I even knew my last name at five years old I think I actually did, the geek I was ., LOL but I remember being there and see the enterprise streak across the front of the tv., my dad saying turn that off and me trying to keep the show on.

Bill Newbold

The Commander to Captain post.,,

 

[Dingo]

To me, it was reading the DS9 YA novels as a lad (circa 1995, I was 12 at the time). The storylines were compelling the characters complex and interesting. It lead me to watch my first episodes of DS9 in 1996.

 

[Nardpuncher]

For me specifically it was issue #33 of the DC Trek comic in August 1986.

I watched the show here and there and had seen TWOK on TV and a buddy 'dragged' me to see TSFS ( I ended up loving it) but there was soemthing about buying that comic that did it.

 

[KirksFlyingFist]

I was just considering the different factors that brought people into Trek. Some people were interested in sci-fi, some were intrigued by the characters, some just liked good action/adventure stories, others might like a particular race...

So what brought you in?

For me, I will admit it was the spaceships. As a kid, seeing TNG, I was utterly fascinated by the Enterprise-D and the other ships, and the technology of the show. Only when I allowed myself to look past that did I really 'get' what Trek was about, but for better or for worse, the tech is what dragged me in.

For me it was because i've always been interested in science fiction.

Interestingly, I always disliked Star Trek without ever watching it! It always came off as too campy or too "perfect" a world with too much mythology and stuff to memorize from off screen non-canon works that fans push forward on you. After watching Babylon 5 though, my friend urged me to give TOS a shot. So I did. I loved it. Been a fan ever since. I liked TNG too. I can't say I'm a fan of anything beyond, particularly Voyager.

 

[Geckothan]

TNG was on TV when I was a kid. My grandfather would watch it all the time and I'd complain about how "boring" it was. Of course I wasn't actually paying any attention to the show itself, I just wanted to watch The Simpsons instead. Then one day I decided I'd try to sit through a whole episode and give it a chance (the particular episode I watched escapes me now, though). I succeeded in my task, and realized it was actually pretty good. I taped a few episodes and bought some more tapes and eventually had a decent collection.

The main thing that appealed to me about it was the character interaction, the technobabble and action sci-fi stuff doesn't appeal to me much. I can't bare to watch most sci-fi, it all either seems to have no action/all technobabble, lots of action and very little intellectual content, or a horrible mix of all of those with boring characters, but TNG was the first sci-fi show I could actually sit through. Of course I think a little differently about other sci-fi stuff now I've grown up a bit and my tastes have changed.

I largely ignored TOS and totally ignored Voyager and DS9 for a long time. I caught the occasional episode of Voyager and DS9 on TV and saw an occasional TOS episode being rerun, and eventually bought some TOS tapes, but TNG was always the "definitive" Star Trek to me for a long time. Now I prefer TOS over TNG, now I've seen everything that both shows have to offer, but Voyager still bores me to tears for the most part (there's a number of episodes I love to death but most of the series is filler to me), and I've only just started getting into DS9 (I recently recieved all of the boxsets as a gift, working through season 2 as I write this). I've ignored Enterprise almost completely though, I watched the first few episodes from season 1 when it first aired and got bored with it.

 

[Thor Damar]

I'm a geek.

You might as well ask "what brings a duck to water?"

. This I like!

 

[Spider]

I was in high school in the late 60s and watched TOS as a first run series on NBC.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I started watching Star Trek at the age of four, so I actually have no clear memory of how it happened. I thought my parents might have watched it, but one of my older sisters claims that it was my idea that the whole family had to watch Star Trek. I guess I was a precocious kid.

My interest waned over the years till DS9 rekindled it.

 

[FlyingLemons]

My parents used to watch TNG when I was growing up, so I was pretty much raised on Trek. I especially remember "The Best of Both Worlds" for the reasons that a) the Borg scared the hell out of me, and b) I wanted to know what happened next, and couldn't understand why they had to split it into two parts with one coming later on in the year.

Since then, I've pretty much watched every single episode of Star Trek I could get my hands on, even things like (sigh) Plato's Stepchildren...

 

[KimMH]

SPOCK. rushed home every day after school to watch Spock and a bunch of other people on a spaceship. I hear there was a guy named Jim on the ship too . . . did I mention Spock was in space? On a ship?

 

[Jonas Grumby]

I was in high school in the late 60s and watched TOS as a first run series on NBC.

Me too.

I was already a fan of all those fifties sci-fi flicks being shown on TV (particularly those like "Forbidden Planet") so when I saw that first episode of "Star Trek," saw how well it fit in with the esthetic, and realized I could now get a dose of that world (those worlds? ) on a weekly basis, I was sold!