What got you into Star Trek?

[buckeyenation]

I am interested in hearing of what one single thing got people interested in Trek. For me, it was seeing 'The Alternative Factor' when i was about 8 or 9 years old. I didn't know what it was, or what is was about, i just knew that i wanted to know more. Thus began a lifelong love of things Trek.

 

[SFRabid]

A girlfriend in the very late 70's. She was really into Trek and so were two of her cousins. One of those cousins took me to a small Trek event while TNG was on the air. John Delancie was there. We got so pissed at the way he treated one of the fans that we left and had no desire to get our pre-paid autograph from him. It was not until DS9 that I really enjoyed Trek and I never got involved with it until ENT was on SciFi.

 

[mattyhugh]

What did DeLancie do?

 

[SFRabid]

What did DeLancie do?

It was a small expo with less than 100 fans. During the question and answer sessions a young man asked DeLancie if he was upset about loosing his powers in "Deja Q". DeLancie responded with asking the guy if he realized that TNG is a TV show and it is not real. It might have been ok if he has left it at that but he didn't. Instead he kept going and going and all the young man could do was sink into his seat as DeLancie maid him out to be someone who had lost touch with reality. It was very uncomfortable for everyone in the room and no one offered to ask DeLancie a question after that. A very embarrassed David Prowse (original Darth Vader) was also on stage. He immediately took over the session.

 

[NickInABox]

What a dick.

I've honestly always loved Star Trek. When I was born, Star Trek was one of the first shows I ever watched on TV... So I was pretty much raised on it.

 

[RyuRoots]

Sounds like a pretty stupid question to me.

For me, it was TNG. A Trek nut friend of mine coaxed me into taking a look at TNG from the beginning, and by the end of season 2 I was set on seeing more, but S3 is what really sealed me as a Trek fan.

 

[plynch]

I am interested in hearing of what one single thing got people interested in Trek. For me, it was seeing 'The Alternative Factor' when i was about 8 or 9 years old. I didn't know what it was, or what is was about, i just knew that i wanted to know more. Thus began a lifelong love of things Trek.

My deepest sympathies, for your college affiliation.

Alt Factor is usually derided for being inscrutable (for production reasons mainly), but it would seem cool to a kid.

That is my origin story: I was six, watching it on some syndication channel near Lansing, MI and it struck me as cool. Later, I bet its intelligence and idea-ness (sometimes) appealed to me. Stunning story, eh? Go Blue.

 

[buckeyenation]

I am interested in hearing of what one single thing got people interested in Trek. For me, it was seeing 'The Alternative Factor' when i was about 8 or 9 years old. I didn't know what it was, or what is was about, i just knew that i wanted to know more. Thus began a lifelong love of things Trek.

My deepest sympathies, for your college affiliation.

Alt Factor is usually derided for being inscrutable (for production reasons mainly), but it would seem cool to a kid.

That is my origin story: I was six, watching it on some syndication channel near Lansing, MI and it struck me as cool. Later, I bet its intelligence and idea-ness (sometimes) appealed to me. Stunning story, eh? Go Blue.

"Our honor defend, We will fight to end for Ohi-I-O!!!!!!!!

 

[Rush Limborg]

I had a very unorthodox entry.

My uncle is a fellow member of the Bretheren, and one day, when I came of age, he gave me a starter deck for the Decipher Star Trek CCG (that's "Customizable Card Game", BTW).

I was supremely fascinated. Started buying more cards...and more....

My fascination spilled simoultaneously into the episodes and books.

First TNG, then Enterprise, then the TNG films, then the classic films, then TOS, then DS9, then JJ's film, and now I'm catching up on VGR.

 

[RoJoHen]

What got me into Star Trek?

Um...being conceived by parents who watched Star Trek.

 

[Jptrekker]

What got me into Star Trek?

Star Wars (and to a lesser extent BSG).

I was in 4th grade when Star Wars came out. Our local tv station got a renewed interest in Star Trek with the popularity of Star Wars in the theaters and started running the Trek reruns after school. From there I was hooked & TMP a few years later permanently sealed the deal. I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode and movie of all the series.

 

[knine]

When I was young, I had an uncle that was very much into sci-fi. I looked up to him a lot and got interested in some of the things he was in to like Star Trek (and Doctor Who).

What got me really hooked was when TNG came out when I was in 6th grade. Curses upon all the kids in my 6th grade class that made fun of me because of it and invaded my desk and wrote nasty messages in my notebooks that had drawings of starships.

It was not until my 30's when I became more of a critic and became a true follower of the mighty Shatner.

 

[iguana_tonante]

What got me into Star Trek?

Um...being conceived by parents who watched Star Trek.

Err, during the act of conception?

Personal story. I saw TOS in syndication when I was a kid: I thought it was cool, but nothing came out of that. I always loved sci-fi, but it was a show like any other. Then, when I was in high school, a local station started to broadcast TNG every afternoon, and I got hooked on that. A couple of friends started watching it too, and it became out favourite show. From that, it was a slow descent into fandom.

Nowadays, with so many good sci-fi shows on the air, Star Trek may not be my favourite show anymore, but it's still my favourite universe, if that makes sense.

 

[TheKeeper]

I have vague memories of catching the original broadcast of TOS occasionally, but really it was a few years later when the local Detroit station had the reruns going seven days a week that I became a proto-Trekkie. I was all out there too -- books, models, posters. If it was Trek I was on it like a tribble on wheat.

 

[RoJoHen]

What got me into Star Trek?

Um...being conceived by parents who watched Star Trek.

Err, during the act of conception?

Um, no, not that I know of.

 

[scotpens]

If it was Trek I was on it like a tribble on wheat.

You mean like a tribble on quadrotriticale, don't you?

I was a science fiction geek practically from birth. I grew up watching Science Fiction Theater, Men Into Space, the original Outer Limits, the Irwin Allen shows, all the Gerry Anderson puppet stuff, and every movie that had a rocketship or a robot in it.

I was a month shy of my thirteenth birthday when the original Star Trek debuted on NBC, and got instantly hooked.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I watched TOS when I was a kid and liked it. My sisters and I would play Star Trek with "disc phasers" Then in seventh grade I met another kid who liked it and had cool stuff like models, the blue prints and the Concordance. About that same time the reruns started and soon after the animated series debuted. That led to reading the Blish adaptations, the Making of Star Trek and original novels. For a while Kirk and Spock appeared in a comic a wrote and drew.(looking like their animated selves) The other kid became my best friend (and still is) We've seen most of the movies together, including ST09 and used to get together to watch which ever Trek show was being broadcast. Our wives seem to tolarate this. Though mine is closer to being a fan than his.

 

[Orcus]

What got me into it? Um... it was on TV and seemed like Bonanza in space, I suppose...

I'm old enough to have been around in the days of B&W TV with only one channel so whatever was on TV was what we watched or we turned the telly off altogether...

 

[Alrik]

In '72 when I was in Kindergarten a local station began showing TOS reruns after school. Been hooked ever since.

 

[RandyS]

My mom. She was an original fan from the 60's, and watched the reruns all the time. I was born a year after TOS left NBC and was there when she watched the reruns. I've been hooked on Star Trek ever since.