When you were young, did you "get" Star Trek the first time watching?

[Kestra]

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Sadly, the first episode of Trek I watched was TNG's "Sub Rosa." I didn't recall this until later, but it explains why I was dead set against Trek and declared sci-fi "creepy."

My brother one day refused to change the channel on the tv, and I ended up watching "Measure of a Man" with him. I don't think I fully appreciated the episode, but it definitely raised questions within me and had me interested. Years later when I came upon "Sub Rosa" again, I was slightly more prepared.

 

[RichMerk]

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One of my earliest childhood memories is the Gorn chasing Captain Kirk all around some big rocks. The Gorn was very scary the way it hissed and just kept coming no matter what Kirk did. At the end, I thought the Gorn died, disappeared because it went to heaven, and turned into an angel (the Metron) to come back and talk to Kirk about something. Yeah, I was Catholic.

 

[barnaclelapse]

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I understood the basic concept of exploring the universe, gaining a greater understanding of what's out there and the problems that can come out of that, but it was a good couple of years before I started to get some of the deeper concepts and meanings the shows and films were going after.

 

[Cakes488]

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the first epi I recall watching in the 70s as a 10 year old was the one with MIRI and the children afraid to grow up. It felt like watching a surreal Peter Pan. The one seared into my tween mind was Amok Time. My brothers tease me to this day about having wanted to be T'Pring. Until we saw what she did. Evil thing!

I felt like I did "Get It" then of course, but of course have found that subsequent rewatching of every epi nearly every time brings another thought to my mind that wasn't there before. It's not religion or high art but I still find it compelling. My impressions of the first series was the brotherly love between the big three. Thank goodness I didn't meet the idea of slash for many more years to come! I was just impressd by the bond of friendship. It still moves me.

I believe this is part of the appeal and success of Star Trek...as kids no we didn't get everything in the show...but with subsequent viewing you pick up more and more...even to this day I can pick up something new or something I hadn't remembered etc...

I didn't understand where the Bridge was. For some reason, I thought maybe the Bridge was the big saucer thing in the front.

LOL! I thought that too!
I was six when I first saw TOS, and it took a few eps until I *got* it- The Immunity Syndrome was the first ep I fully grasped, but I loved it even before that. But I was, like, 10 when I saw The Menagerie the second time & figured out that that zoom in to the top of the ship was literally where the bridge was.

Me too! I forgot all about that...I thought the bridge was the saucer...damn we were so cute weren't we?!

 

[TrekNut87]

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Not really. I was six when I was first exposed to Trek and I can remember pretty clearly that I didn't understand it at all, but I thought all the funny looking aliens were neat.

 

[Cakes488]

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Not really. I was six when I was first exposed to Trek and I can remember pretty clearly that I didn't understand it at all, but I thought all the funny looking aliens were neat.

I just want to say that I was dying to show my nephew Trek when he was 6 -- but I was afraid of this exact thing that he wouldn't get it and he'd be turned off to it. I just couldn't take that chance -- I patiently waited for 12 years and then started the brainwashing process. It's going better then I could of ever expected....he harrasses me for Trek viewings...! I Love that kid!

 

[KimMH]

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^^^It's very selfless of you indoctrinate other people's kids if you don't have your own. If only there were more like you!

 

[Odo You Didn't!]

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I definitely didn't get it. I didn't dislike it, though. I have a strong memory of my brother wanting to call his fish Scottie and Geordi and Uhura and wondering what the hell that was all about.

My brother got me into it really. He had the cards and bought the fact files and was really into it. He was in love with DS9 and I thought it was a bit boring compared to TNG. I quite liked Voyager because it was easier to get than DS9.

To be honest, I think I'm only just getting it now. It takes getting older to look for meaning behind what you see on the gogglebox. When I was a kid I just liked the fact there were blue people on TV

 

[Garth Rockett]

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I was aware of Trek fairly early on, but I was a huge Star Wars fan as a kid and didn't really have much interest in any other science fiction until a little later. My first Star Trek experience was renting The Voyage Home in about 1987. I rented the other movies and started watching TNG, which had premiered not long before. I would have been 11 or so, so I was old enough to get it.

 

[Jasper Sierra]

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As a child during the 1980s, TOS and the Animated Series were great fun to watch as a science fiction action show. I didn't appreciate the other layers until I got older, but its great that a show can seem to grow with you.

 

[Praetorian]

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Hum, my earliest memory of Star Trek was an advertisement for it, with Kirk facing the Gorn, but I think my first real Star Trek experience was The Motion Picture at age 11 or so... I think I kinda got it, but certanly my appreciation for certain, more cerebral, episodes as has risen as I've goten older...

 

[Trekwatcher]

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I started watching reruns as a little kid in around 74-75 when they first came on where I lived. I was not around for the original run. Both my brother and I were immediately captivated and by the show and by 77-78 or so we had seen TOS from start to finish 2-3x. My dad is an avid sci-fi fan as well, so he watched with us, which I think made it an even bigger deal around the house. I think that "Day of the Dove" may have been the first ep I saw, but I cannot be sure.

 

[Rackon]

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Ahhhhh...y'all are so young. I'm an old broad.

I watched the first TOS ep in 1966, at the ripe old age of 13. Already a big reader of SF, I think I got what there was to get.

I didn't know if I liked the "monsterish" aspects of that first show, but I liked the characters and set-up, and I was reassured of ST's worthiness by subsequent episodes. One thing I loved about TOS was that it was plausible space exploration by a service that behaved like a "service" - rank, protocol, ships. I thought it owed a lot to Forbidden Planet. I was happy to have a weekly series doing serious SF as opposed to kiddie shows like Lost In Space (though I had enjoyed the original Space Family Robinson comics as a kid).

I came to SWs as an adult, so my affections for it are different than many of yours. I enjoyed the heck outa the first one, enjoyed most of the second one, and had Ewok overload by the third. I remember wishing SWs had been geared for adults, but we did get adult SF with Alien and Blade Runner.

 

[Kestra]

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To be honest, I think I'm only just getting it now. It takes getting older to look for meaning behind what you see on the gogglebox. When I was a kid I just liked the fact there were blue people on TV

Yeah, I like the fact that I can still appreciate Trek as I get older, and perhaps even appreciate it more.

Okay so I actually quoted you just to say that your username is the best thing ever. Nice one!

 

[Chrisisall]

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My son's first look at Star Trek in any form was when it was on the TV in Bill & Ted's Bogus journey.
LOL!

 

[Disillusioned]

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When you were young, did you "get" Star Trek the first time watching?

I don't think I ever got confused over the technology and the like being presented, but the way I didn't "get" Star Trek was that I was only interested in the ships and space battles. I didn't really care about anything else, and it wasn't until I matured that I really got into the stories being told.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

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Yes, I think I got it when I was a kid, but I had a healthy quotient of the fantasy genre as a child. My mom read me or I read things like Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit and the Prydain series...so I think I got the make-believe and otherwordly-concepts just fine, and as a consequence I got the mechanics of sci-fi okay. My oldest brother (10+ years older) sometimes would discuss an episode with me to see what I thought.