Dusty Ayres
Commodore
Delancie? Nasty? He was such a nice guy in Toronto when he came here to Toronto Trek (Polaris) twice....
What got you into Star Trek?
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Delancie? Nasty? He was such a nice guy in Toronto when he came here to Toronto Trek (Polaris) twice....
Delancie strikes me as the type who has a love/hate relationship with Trek and fandom. He loves the best of our Trek, especially that which includes him, but the "sillier" stuff turns him off. He seems to feel the same way about the fans, grateful for them, yet their eccentricities, excesses and obsessions bother him the same.
When I've encountered him, he's mostly nice, but you can tell that if you catch him at the wrong moment, he could pull a Shatner on you.
Now, my encounter with Trek? 1975, Mom watching on a little black and white TV. The ep was Where No Man Has Gone Before. The ep was just starting, and that beeping recorder buoy from the Valiant was being shown.
Then Gary Mitchelle and his spooky eyes...
Late night on Fridays, it was a family thing to sit up late hours and watch it on that same bnw.
Those are treasured memories. Since then, I've been proud to be a part of this fan community and see the wonderful stories that build this fictional universe we call Star Trek.
When I've encountered him, he's mostly nice, but you can tell that if you catch him at the wrong moment, he could pull a Shatner on you.
Now, my encounter with Trek? 1975, Mom watching on a little black and white TV. The ep was Where No Man Has Gone Before. The ep was just starting, and that beeping recorder buoy from the Valiant was being shown.
Then Gary Mitchelle and his spooky eyes...
Late night on Fridays, it was a family thing to sit up late hours and watch it on that same bnw.
Those are treasured memories. Since then, I've been proud to be a part of this fan community and see the wonderful stories that build this fictional universe we call Star Trek.
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.
My parents really didn't put that much effort into it. I was just usually in the room when TNG was on.
Well first, my daughter was born during the episode of TNG "The Host"
I saw a few episodes here and there in high school of the original, and of course movies, but it wasn't until TNG came out in my first year of college that I got hooked.
I just finished Sorrows of the Empire myself last night. At first I was annoyed that it was a reprint, but I love the Mirror Universe, and the fact that it was an expanded edition made the money I spent worth it.
I had cheated and peeked at the end. I'm a Spock grrrl and couldn't help it. I'll still finish it because it's David Mack! So many talented current writers - I picked up a dozen older Voyager books at a hrift shop fo 75cents ea - I'd only read the relaunch books and I'm really excited at all the fun waiting for me on the bookshelf!
I saw a few episodes back when Star Trek The Next Generation was still on the air. Then my friend years later got into all the whole thing. Then I started collecting the soundtracks, reading the novels, collecting the action figures, Joining star trek sim groups, watching the tv shows and movies, replying on messages boards, and chatting in the star trek chatroom.
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Amaris
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My mom got me into Star Trek (TOS) when I was 4 years old. By the time 1987 came along (I was 7), I was ecstatic about the new Star Trek. I had loved TOS, but I became hooked on TNG. In middle school (1993/1994), my best friend and I were Admirals in Starfleet, and we sent back communiques between one another in between classes, showing ship locations and troop movements to square up against the Borg. 
I remember Star Trek being advertised as coming onto the BBC as Dr Who was finishing for the summer. For some peculiar and extremely annoying reason my father decided we weren't going to watch "that rubbish" and insisted on switching over.
I do recall seeing odd snippets from the first time round but I didn't get to watch Star Trek until the following year. By that time it was on against Coronation St (barff!)which my parents liked. The only reason I got to watch was because my parents had gone out the night that "Patterns of Force" was on. I discovered Star Trek and that was that. I was hooked!
After that I made sure that I got to see Star Trek by the simple method of standing in front of the TV and shouting until I got my way, the first time I ever stood up to my parents!
That was in 1970 so I will have been a fan for 40 years on Sept 3rd this year!
I do recall seeing odd snippets from the first time round but I didn't get to watch Star Trek until the following year. By that time it was on against Coronation St (barff!)which my parents liked. The only reason I got to watch was because my parents had gone out the night that "Patterns of Force" was on. I discovered Star Trek and that was that. I was hooked!
After that I made sure that I got to see Star Trek by the simple method of standing in front of the TV and shouting until I got my way, the first time I ever stood up to my parents!
That was in 1970 so I will have been a fan for 40 years on Sept 3rd this year!
I was running through some tv-channels when I saw bio-ships in battle with cubes. I was really interested and started watching it every day until Star Trek was a part of my life. Watched DS9 and ENT in the past too, but I liked Voyager the most.
when I was 5 the animated series used to be on tv on Saturday i used to watch that then i was allowed to rent a video each week at blockbuster always was a star trek one and normally the original series, the man at the shop tried every week to get me to watch ds9 it sounded boring, how wrong i was.
then generations came out and i became an addict watching TNG on bbc2 when they used to show an episode of next gen every week
then generations came out and i became an addict watching TNG on bbc2 when they used to show an episode of next gen every week
You must have been a tad let down when you realized that Scorpion wasn't the norm for Voyager.
startrekrcks
Fleet Captain
After Trek XI made me a Star Trek fan 22 years old and I am a Tos fan is that good
My family used to watch TOS together when the series was in its first run. Mom limited our TV watching, but she almost always let us watch the re-runs of TOS after school...and would usually sit down with us to watch. Mom took me to see TMP in the theater.
My stepdad would watch TOS reruns in the 70's!
James
James
I saw it sa a kid with my family, I can't say exactly which one made into an early Trekkie, but I think it was the Cobomite Maneuver.
I'm surrounded by babies!
I was twenty years old when you were born.
Hahaha - well so was my Dad, so now you see how I became a Trekkie.
He's the reason my whole family has seen all of Trek, and he's the one who got me into Treklit too! Though nowadays I'm the one who keeps track of what's coming out, so I can add it to our massive collection.
Ahh, another youngin' - I don't feel so alone now!
I'm surrounded by babies!
I was twenty years old when you were born.
Hahaha - well so was my Dad, so now you see how I became a Trekkie.
He's the reason my whole family has seen all of Trek, and he's the one who got me into Treklit too! Though nowadays I'm the one who keeps track of what's coming out, so I can add it to our massive collection.
Good for your dad. It's been my experience that Trekkies of my generation--with few exceptions--are few and far between. I've got a friend who is 14 years younger than me, and no matter how hard I try, I can't get him into Star Trek. I have managed to get him to watch selected episodes, but the baby whined all the way through them. A curious complaint was he hated them because there is no rap music.
Thank God for that.
I was a child of the 60s, and was lucky enough to be a small child when all the best stuff begun: Star Trek, Dr Who, Quatermass, Joe 90, UFO, then of course came the other brilliant shows, Babylon 5, Battlestar Gallatica, Star Wars, and so on. Total escapeism and a must watch in our house.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
My turn now!
I was turned on to Star Trek when I was a wee one, around 5 years old or thereabouts-my earliest memory of the show was when I turned on the TV and saw a man in a red shirt and black pants operate a console (later on, I knew that it was Scotty!) As a kid, I'd watch anything that was put in front of me on TV, and that was all of the usual stuff, plus (as a sci-fi fan) Super Friends, The New Adventures Of Batman, Space:1999, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Batman, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Space Academy, Jason Of Star Command-you name it, I saw it on TV. But Star Trek was it-it got me into sci-fi, it was the gateway. It got me through times of no friends and no job better than anything else including drugs. Even though I have little now, I still have Trek with me.
I was turned on to Star Trek when I was a wee one, around 5 years old or thereabouts-my earliest memory of the show was when I turned on the TV and saw a man in a red shirt and black pants operate a console (later on, I knew that it was Scotty!) As a kid, I'd watch anything that was put in front of me on TV, and that was all of the usual stuff, plus (as a sci-fi fan) Super Friends, The New Adventures Of Batman, Space:1999, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Batman, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Space Academy, Jason Of Star Command-you name it, I saw it on TV. But Star Trek was it-it got me into sci-fi, it was the gateway. It got me through times of no friends and no job better than anything else including drugs. Even though I have little now, I still have Trek with me.
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