What got you into Star Trek?
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"The Naked Now". Can you believe it? I can't and it was me!
I was about eleven when my bestfriend's dad (who was a HUGE TNG fan) popped this into the VCR.
It was almost bedtime so he figured it would put us to sleep. It had the opposite effect. Instead our overly immature minds (which knew far too much) sent us into a fit of giggles the whole time. I was hooked instantly and every weekend after that we would spend the night at his house and watch episode after episode.
I was about eleven when my bestfriend's dad (who was a HUGE TNG fan) popped this into the VCR.
It was almost bedtime so he figured it would put us to sleep. It had the opposite effect. Instead our overly immature minds (which knew far too much) sent us into a fit of giggles the whole time. I was hooked instantly and every weekend after that we would spend the night at his house and watch episode after episode.
Whenever we get onto the subject of Trek with friends, my Mum always mentions how she remembers watching TNG when she was pregnant with me.
My Dad was the original Trekkie in our family, and my earliest memories of Trek are of renting Voyager from the local video store in the school holidays - I don't remember how old I was, maybe around 7 or 8.
Then when I was 12-13, we started buying TNG on DVD and watching it every night as a family. 6 years later, we own every series (even TAS) and all the movies, and have seen it all multiple times.
After reading some of the other posts... I feel very young :P
And I feel... so old.Whenever we get onto the subject of Trek with friends, my Mum always mentions how she remembers watching TNG when she was pregnant with me.
After reading some of the other posts... I feel very young :P
And I feel... so old.Whenever we get onto the subject of Trek with friends, my Mum always mentions how she remembers watching TNG when she was pregnant with me.
After reading some of the other posts... I feel very young :P
Haha - it seems like most of you are at least as old as my parents, so I'm in the minority here.
... And it wasn't even Season 1 either, I was born during... the summer break between Seasons 4 and 5. I think.
But I envy all of you who saw any of the shows during their first TV runs! I only became a serious Trekkie around the time of Enterprise, and even then, we didn't get up to watching it on DVD until after it'd finished airing.
I can only imagine what it was like to watch it originally on TV, not knowing what was going to happen, or even how the show would run for! I sincerely hope a new Star Trek TV show is made in my lifetime.
Now, I think there is a little spot on my back where you haven't stabbed me yet: we don't want you to do a less than thorough work, do we?And I feel... so old.
Haha - it seems like most of you are at least as old as my parents, so I'm in the minority here.
... And it wasn't even Season 1 either, I was born during... the summer break between Seasons 4 and 5. I think.
But I envy all of you who saw any of the shows during their first TV runs! I only became a serious Trekkie around the time of Enterprise, and even then, we didn't get up to watching it on DVD until after it'd finished airing.
I can only imagine what it was like to watch it originally on TV, not knowing what was going to happen, or even how the show would run for! I sincerely hope a new Star Trek TV show is made in my lifetime.
More seriously, I didn't watch it on the first run either because I caught it on Italian tv a couple of years after the fact. It was only later that I went out to find the original version. Now I can think about it both in Italian and in English, and switch language at will. It's like having a little dvd player in my head.
How's this for kicks:
I was born in the interim between the the cliff-hangar of "The Best of Both Worlds" and the resolution!
I was born in the interim between the the cliff-hangar of "The Best of Both Worlds" and the resolution!
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Same here. My family has always loved everything scifi/fantasy, and as kids, we were fed everything they could get their hands on. It was during the golden age of vhs; those feverish days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was about six.
Ah, the twentieth century. Sometimes I miss you.
I was born during the original run of TOS, so I grew up watching it in syndication. The afternoon reruns were part of my daily routine.
What specifically drew me to it? Thinking back of my childhood impressions of it, one thing always jumps to my mind. When Captain Kirk took Alexander away from the Platonians... I recall wishing hard that that would happen to me. So I guess it was Star Trek's promise of a better life that did it.
What specifically drew me to it? Thinking back of my childhood impressions of it, one thing always jumps to my mind. When Captain Kirk took Alexander away from the Platonians... I recall wishing hard that that would happen to me. So I guess it was Star Trek's promise of a better life that did it.
I have been into STAR TREK since I was 6 years old, and I always enjoyed the action/adventure stories.
I'm surrounded by babies!
I was twenty years old when you were born.
Oh yes. I can live without new Star Trek on TV every week, but new books? I hope those NEVER end.
And I still love the old stuff - as mind bogglingly GREAT as the new stuff is! I recently re-read Vulcan's Glory and have The Romulan Way next to read after Sorrows of the Empire. Re-reading those old chestnuts is almost like the loveliest of family reunions!
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