Star Trek In what year were we born?

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 7:24 am

1973- was "introduced" to Trek around 75 by a fanatic fan, my aunt Linda.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 7:26 am

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44 years ago today.

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Happy birthday Zelkar, you crazy MOFO!!!!!!!

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 8:34 am

1986.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 10:41 am

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A young impressionable baby/toddler was left with his daddy in the last '80s when some show with a bald man was on. Said child quickly became entranced by this programme, and actually believed that the bald man and his friends really were up there, saving us on a weekly basis. The seven year old kid was very sad to see the bald man finish his travels in 1994. He watched the one on the space station, but he didn't like it as much as the old one. He didn't see it again til the late '90s, cos no channel in his home where he lived were showing it at the time. It was also around this time that he saw the one with the lady captain, and the very old ones.

The child has grown up, and sometimes wonders if his daddy knew all the trouble that came out of letting his son sit in front of a tv, some twenty years ago.

We KNOW, you love Telly Savalas.

Our dear friend Chronic. Poor bastard's gone senile with age! :laugh:

You know me... smoother than the head of Mr. Telly Savalas. Â¿ :cool:

And I suppose you have the lollipop to prove it? :laugh:

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 11:06 am

1985, year of the Ox

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 11:08 am

Quote (Isina @ Jan. 24 2010, 5:11 am)

I was born in 1967. ?I've been a trekkie since I was about 5, so about 1972-ish!!!

Yep, much the same. My aunt tried to introduce me to Trek when I was 3. Unfortunately, she chose to try when the episode was The Apple. Remember Vaal, the mouth-wide-open dinosaur statue whom the natives worshiped? Big teeth. Big eyes. Goodbye.

By about age 7, though, I looked again and was intrigued. In particular, at how much Trek was like Sesame Street... multiple species working together towards common goals, everyone realizing that it's the differences among them which make their team successful because no new surprise can get by all of them.

Someone gave me the blueprints for the Enterprise a year or so later. There's no way to count the hundreds of hours I spent poring over each drawing. In my mind, I have walked every deck, climbed through every compartment, of NCC-1701. I loved that ship every bit as much as Scotty did. It's the only one which has ever looked right.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 11:32 am

Have most of us been introduced into ST by someone else? I've seen Aunts, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters...

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 12:15 pm

1989.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 12:28 pm

Quote (sonofspock1 @ Jan. 24 2010, 11:32 am)

Have most of us been introduced into ST by someone else? I've seen Aunts, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters...

I am single-handedly responsible for a whole snowball-effect dozen-or-so young adults tuning into Star Trek shows for the first time (being of an age never really to have had occasion to before). My willingness to lend out my DVD's has a big part in that.

They really like ENT, followed by VOY. Or maybe the other way around. Anyhow, I'm certain it will lead to other series, eventually.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 12:32 pm

Quote (IVHoltzman @ Jan. 24 2010, 11:08 am)

In particular, at how much Trek was like Sesame Street... multiple species working together towards common goals, everyone realizing that it's the differences among them which make their team successful because no new surprise can get by all of them.

Someone gave me the blueprints for the Enterprise a year or so later. There's no way to count the hundreds of hours I spent poring over each drawing. In my mind, I have walked every deck, climbed through every compartment, of NCC-1701. I loved that ship every bit as much as Scotty did. It's the only one which has ever looked right.

I'm not the only one to have watched TOS and Sesame Street simultaneously! and seen the similarities. YES, those were the high ideals given to me in my youth. The world has been a bit of a disappointment, but...in retrospect, better to give our kids a vision to WORK towards, rather than a drab slice of real-life to simply be content with. That's where sci-fi comes in! if it's the good stuff.

So COOL, IVH, your story about the spec's. I was OBSESSED with the spec's of starships growing up--as well as the real thing. What part of the ship served what purpose, how elegantly a designer could put it all together...

(Getting on this site last year was a revelation. Tx to all you guys who post links to Starship designs I've never seen before.)

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 1:32 pm

The original ST wasn't really about different species working together. The Enterprise was all human except for Spock and he was half human. Most of the aliens they met (unless they looked like Earth people) were trouble. It wasn't until STTNG and the movies that aliens got aboard the Enterprise as important crew members. And come to think about it, nearly every show, either had a racial joke about Spock's heritage or some kind of sexual thing about women. Kirk either leering at or making some sexual comment.

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 2:47 pm

1966... I don't remember a time when I wasn't watching Star Trek..

My famous quote.

While watching the moon landing with man great grandfather... "What's the big deal Captain Kirk does this every day." (I was half kidding) My Great grand father was bored and turned the channel. I was fascinated... what was it 1972 the second time we went? I was 6? I was a born trekkie...

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 2:51 pm

Happy Birthday to another 44 year old poster here! :laugh:

Zelkar and I were both born in 1966

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Report this Jan. 24 2010, 3:37 pm

Quote (QdonQ @ Jan. 24 2010, 2:47 pm)

While watching the moon landing with man great grandfather... "What's the big deal Captain Kirk does this every day." ?(I was half kidding) My Great grand father was bored and turned the channel. ?I was fascinated... what was it 1972 the second time we went? ? I was 6? I was a born trekkie...

holy cow, me, too! I was four in July '69 and remember my dad so excited about the moon landing that he was taping the TV with a home movie camera. I asked my brother what the big deal with, and he had the darndest time convincing me this really WAS the FIRST moon landing. I was convinced we'd been to Mars, Jupiter AND Federation planets.

so great story QDQ. sorry I had the same one...