Your first taste of Trekdom?

[Rÿcher]

When I was 14, my aunt took me to see Star Trek IV back in '86. She told me to fully understand the movie, I'd need to pick up the series. I did.

But I remember further back than that; I was about to leave my grandparent's place and one of them was flipping stations. There was a scene with Captain Kirk telling someone to get out of his chair. Around that time, I got an iron-on badge emblem out of a cereal box that I peeled off thinking it was a sticker.

 

[Therin of Andor]

When I was 14, my aunt took me to see Star Trek IV back in '86.

Kids at my elementary school collecting Scanlen's Star Trek gum cards (Topps in the USA).

My Year 5 teacher's wall chart where we kept score of our weekly dictation results. It was our "Star Trek" chart and we added gold, silver and coloured gummed paper stars, depending on our results (1969).

TAS on b/w Saturday morning TV, and then daily breakfast TV TAS repeats "for the first time in colour" a few years later.

Also a few TOS episodes, which were selected for presentation on a Saturday evening(?) "for the first time in colour", when colour TV came to Australia in 1975.

Five serialized b/w daily liftouts in a Sydney nightly newspaper in late 1979: "My Week on the Star Trek Movie Set!" by Aussie journalist, Jim Oram. At my 21st birthday party a few weeks later, a friend boasted how he'd just been to the gala premiere, where half of the cinema had fans in costume, and they applauded all the characters' entrances.

Finding the ST:TMP novelization in a rack at the checkout of my local supermarket.

 

[Kpnuts]

About 1994, my first taste was watching the DS9 episode where the crew are in some sort of 'game', and there's this girl dancing around singing a song. I still don't even know the episode because I've never watched it since! All I remember was an alien at the end saying "It's only a game"

Then a few weeks later, All Good Things.

And a few months after that, Generations, without really knowing who Kirk was.

Hmmm, bit screwed up eh. ;-)

 

[Dale]

I have it on good (parental) authority that I watched TOS on my dad's knee at (almost) two, first run, beginning with the first episode. I don't remember a time I wasn't a Star Trek fan. When TAS premired I watched it as a serious-minded little boy and gave it just as much "weight" as I had TOS. I was skeptical of TNG at first but came to love it and the later shows as well. I have been a Trekkie for nearly all of my 43.5 years.

 

[RyanKCR]

I have faint memories of reruns of the original show with my father before age 5 or 6 (around the time he left). Possible I saw TAS. But my first real introduction was TMP in the theaters after being a huge Star Wars fan. I was about 7 or 8 at the time. Nothing has come close to the feeling I had when I saw TMP in the theaters. Wish I could get that back.

 

[sbk1234]

On an old black and white tv in the early 70s, I was about 3 or 4, and flipping chanels and seeing Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and a whole bunch of other guys running around some caves chasing after a monster. (Devil in the Dark)
I couldn't really follow any of it, but I still remember it, so it must have made an impression.

 

[Antihero]

I remember watching Wrath of Khan on TV when I was about 5 or 6. I suppose it was probably the movie of the week on ABC or whatever. I remember crawling behind my mom's recliner because I was all freaked out at Khan's burned face.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I can't remember that far back. Trek has been a constant presence in my life for a long time. Watching it predates my oldest memories.

 

[WendellM]

I remember when I misbehaved and my mother cut off all television for a week. I agreed to adhere if I could watch one show, Star Trek, that week. She agreed, and I obeyed, and all went well. That would've been around 1975 (since we moved the next year).

 

[Jono]

The best early memory I have or Trek was Star Trek VI on a bus while I travelled from my country town to a major city to get a plane overseas in the early 90s. Though I'm sure I saw Star Trek 2 and 3 before that at some time. I only know that because in 1995 when Trek 2 was on the TV when I was in Holland I told my babysitter at the time that I had seen it before and I could remember certain scenes.

 

[Nathan_Heller]

My brother was watching "Arena." I was 5 years old and was hooked when I saw the Enterprise and the Gorn. It way back in 1967.

 

[drasche]

When I met a colleague who was a big fan of Trek, telling me about the series, Picard, The Borg. So I went to watch First Contact at the theater and I greatly enjoyed it. Then series reruns on TV, then DVD.

 

[Trilliam]

1969, I was 9 years old (in 3rd grade at Primary school).

 

[Rhodan]

Pretty messed up. When I was a child I ´ve seen Wrath of Khan on our TV, closely followed by The Search for Spock, then first two seasons of DS9, Generations,then ST books. You get the picture.

 

[Art Vandelay]

March 9, 1991, Age 12: German television airs Skin of Evil. I don't know why, but the concept of Armus and the death of a series regular made an impression on me, and I came back every week. They paused after airing The Schizoid Man but during that summer they had TOS on every night from Monday to Friday! Those were the days...

 

[CaptainStoner]

I remember hating TOS initially as my Dad was watching it in reruns. This would have to be around 1978, around 4 years old. Most likely was exposed to it sooner (both parents were fans) but have no recollection. First clear memory of an episode, as I was begrudgingly getting into it, was the Gorn episode, which scared me in a good way.
Ditto for Doctor Who.

 

[Outpost4]

When I was 13 years old:

TV Guide 1966 Fall Season Premiere issue.

Humm...this Star Trek thing looks like it could be cool. I hope they don't crap out like Lost In Space.

 

[cbp44189]

After school at 5:00 pm in the 70's Trek was in sydication. Never missed an episode.

 

[Captain Leslie]

When It was first aired on UK Telly. I was 9. I remember my Dad wasn't going to watch it as he thought it would be mostly a Kids program like Doctor Who. All we had was an 18" B/W television.They showed "Where no man has gone before" We were ALL hooked.

 

[WillsBabe]

Watching Mudd's Women. I suddenly realised that I'd seen it before and that Star Trek was "old" and that all the episodes had been shown at least once. That came as something as a shock to me. I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time. Maybe a little bit older. It's hard to tell.