When did you become a fan?

[Apogeal Alpha01]

I've been a fan of Science Fiction since I read Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhoods End" in high school, circa 1973. But about Star Trek: 1988 or so. I was a middling fan of TOS as a youngster, (I saw it on occasion in reruns) but I became a "Trekkie," during the run of TNG. I became a die-hard Trekkie during DS9's run.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

At the age of four.

I always thought my parental units were TOS fans, too, and that's how I found out about Star Trek, but my sister who was a teenager at the time swears I was the one who wanted to watch it. I dunno, I guess I had good taste for a pre-kindergartener.

 

[Philo]

I'm limited by my own age. But I got hooked at a pretty early age. I had switched from children's books to Star Trek novels by Grade Four. I still remember giving a book report to the class about J.M. Dillard's The Lost Years when all the other kids were reading Judy Blume and The Babysitter's Club. I also remember reading William Shatner's Star Trek Memories in Grade Five.

So that's early 90's for me. Oddly enough, even though that was TNG's heyday I started with TOS and was equally a fan of both. Which is still true.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

1986-90: The Voyage Home and TNG made me a fan.

 

[misskim86]

I became a real trekkie around 2003-4 when my friend practicly forced me to watch TNG and DS9. I always liked the movies but those two shows made me a trekkie

 

[M'Sharak]

1966-70

 

[Jamee999]

96-00. About 1999, TNG re-runs on BBC2.

 

[Smiley]

1991-1995

That's not solely because of the quality of TNG and DS9. There's also the fact that I was born in 1983.

 

[Sagart]

Around 1974 on the BBC. It was up there with Dr Who, Batman and Thunderbirds as my childhood favourites.

 

[DS9forever]

1995, when DS9 began in the UK. :thumbsup:

 

[Kail]

April 2nd 1969, I was nine and watching TOS in re-runs. I see I'm not the oldest fan, but I'm up there.

 

[greenmystik]

I actually became a fan by proxy. I had a friend who loved Star Trek and would always bring his Technical Manual to school and show me all these "cool" things about the Enterprise. After being bombarded with bits and pieces over the school year it finally started to peak my interest and I turned on TNG one day and never stopped watching.

 

[JD]

I was born two weeks before TNG premiered and I've been a fan ever since. My father was a fan so my family was watching it when I was a baby. In fact, I'd been watching Trek pretty regularly on Spike up until a few months ago. This is the first time since Spike started TNG that I haven't been watching Trek regularly. Although I do still watch the occaisionaly episode of ENT on Sci-Fi, and I'm reading the books.

 

[azzurri08]

Since I was born in the 84 I think I became a fan when I started watching TNG, but I really liked DS9 so much more.

 

[Jamaica Jive]

1966 - 1970. My Dad put on TOS at some point during its original run on NBC. I was hooked from that point on. I was about 3 or 4 at the time.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

Around 2004, I began watching TNG reruns all the time. Though, I grew up watching random episodes of TNG and TOS with my Mom, who's always been a "Trek" fan.

I started buying the movies on DVD around that same time. Then, finally, this past September, I bought all three seasons of TOS and the TAS set. Next, I'm gonna get TNG, and re-buy the movies [since I had to sell them at one point of desperation].

 

[AJBryant]

I was just a kid during Trek's first run, but I loved it. I was one of the many many fans at the 1974 International Star Trek Convention at the Americana Hotel in NYC.


Tony

 

[Balrog]

I grew up watching Trek re-runs in the late 70's. I saw TMP and TWOK on openning night and saw TSFS with my brother on openning day (we skipped school to do it).

But I became an official uber-fan in 1985, when I learned that this show that I loved actually had this huge following. From that point I was buying the magazines, books, posters, and waited with baited breath for TNG.

 

[Nathan_Heller]

I became a fan in 1969-70 when my sister turned me on to it. I was 8 years old. Later she bought me the Franz Joseph tech manual which I still have...Goddess bless her!

 

[Goji]

1997, when I was 10 years old.