First Experience

[Kairi 0]

I decided to make one of these polls. Mainly out of bordom. :)

 

What was your first Star Trek experience that you could remember?

 

 

For me, it was watching Star Trek II on tv. I think that was my first time. I remember feeling so sad when Spock died, and I didn't even know who he was at the time.

Edited September 10, 2007 by Kairi

[V'Roy 0]

The Animated Series and The Smurfs were the only cartoons on that hour and I had a choice to make.

[Kansas_Jones 0]

The Animated Series and The Smurfs were the only cartoons on that hour and I had a choice to make.

 

And a hard choice that is. A whole bunch of little blue guys in a village and one blonde female. Riiiight. :-D

 

My first encounter was back in the 80's as a pretty young kid, right when the VCR hit the mainstream. The first VHS tape that my Dad purchased was Star Trek 2 (I'm thinking circa '83?), and then I was introduced to that lovely scene with the Ceti Eels. Very. Icky. Ear, brain, screaming. Must go watch Smurfs now.

[Images 0]

The first as I can remember was watching tasha yar get zapped...what a happy day.

[DrDMatthews 0]

Okay, I'm dating myself and I know it.....but I saw the very first Star Trek ever! Of course that was the TOS episode called "Man Trap" and it aired on September 8, 1966 ( I think.)

 

So guess what my favorite Star Trek show is? :)

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Okay, I'm dating myself and I know it.....but I saw the very first Star Trek ever! Of course that was the TOS episode called "Man Trap" and it aired on September 8, 1966 ( I think.)

 

So guess what my favorite Star Trek show is? :)

 

Let's not call it dating yourself; you are sharing your knowledge with the community at large. :-)

 

I was reminded of my "second" Trek experience - the one that cemented me as a fan - 1989, in the movie theater, watching Star Trek 5: TFF. I may have had my first experience with Trek 2, and various re-runs, but I really wasn't interested in the show. I mean, I actually Fell Asleep during Star Trek 3: TSFS (my Dad took me to see it), I thought it was so boring. Trek 5 changed that, and I can sum up my reaction about halfway through the film in the following words - "Wow. These people are so cool. And check out the space ships. Count me in!" And I didn't give a flying fig that the TOS cast was "older", I just thought they rocked. I still do.

 

::gives Doc Matthews the thumbs up signal::

Edited September 10, 2007 by Kansas_Jones

[will_marx 0]

Watching TOS in syndication on Channel 11, WPIX, out of NYC at dinner time on Saturdays. And translating that into playing Dr. McCoy with my friends at nursery school, with our own pseudo tricorders and hand phasers. After that, I saw The Motion Picture first run on the Big Screen in 1979. Followed by TWOK, first run again, in 1982. I missed III, IV and V on the big screens, but thank god for HBO and VHS tapes. I practically wore out my tape of TWOK, that's how many times I saw it.

 

But the best experience I had was in 1992, when I was at the USAF Security Police Academy in Lackland AFB, just outside of San Antonio. I spent Basic Training during the first run of Undiscovered Country, but was lucky enough to have phased up in Tech School to Phase 3 when it hit the IMAX Theatre in the River Walk Mall. There's something awe inspiring about seeing a seven story Enterprise battling it out with Chang and his evil Klingon minions.

 

Just in case you're wondering, Phase 1 means you're restricted to base and duty/PT uniforms; Phase 2 means civvies on base, blues off; Phase 3 civvies on and off base; and Phase 4 means when you're released on the weekend, you don't have to report in until the next duty day. You can be phased back for disciplinary actions, and temporarily phased ahead as a reward.

[Philip Carst 0]

Um, something that pops into mind is Spock's death scene in Star Trek II. I saw it on TV a long while back, and all I knew was that it was Star Trek. Even earlier I remember the Ilia probe being scanned in The Motion Picture.

 

But my earliest memory was just a group being beamed down, possibly with some Klingons. That was very, very early in my life. And probably either from TOS, the original movies, or whatever show as on at the time.

[V'Roy 0]

Just in case you're wondering, Phase 1 means you're restricted to base and duty/PT uniforms; Phase 2 means civvies on base, blues off; Phase 3 civvies on and off base; and Phase 4 means when you're released on the weekend, you don't have to report in until the next duty day. You can be phased back for disciplinary actions, and temporarily phased ahead as a reward.

 

Sheesh, you Air Force pogues had it easy.

[Arch Angel 0]

As Doc has stated..::remembers the first TOS on tv(series regularly sched.):, As well remembers the lag between the TOS series,and the "New Space movie" in between.

Known as "Star Wars"...then Star Trek the movie.

Anxiously awaited the other subsequent movie releases all the while watching the syndacated

TOS, Remembers recording the series(TOS) with the advent of VCR(beta),and later the VCR'S we all grew to know, and love.

 

::Shakes head:: ...Must be getting really old...now CDR/DVDR.

Hmmm...But tries to keep up ,and onto/into the next realm of evos.

[Atragon9 0]

As Doc has stated..::remembers the first TOS on tv(series regularly sched.):, As well remembers the lag between the TOS series,and the "New Space movie" in between.

Known as "Star Wars"...then Star Trek the movie.

Anxiously awaited the other subsequent movie releases all the while watching the syndacated

TOS, Remembers recording the series(TOS) with the advent of VCR(beta),and later the VCR'S we all grew to know, and love.

 

::Shakes head:: ...Must be getting really old...now CDR/DVDR.

Hmmm...But tries to keep up ,and onto/into the next realm of evos.

Yes, I remember seeing "The Man Trap" when it debuted, sitting there with my older brothers getting scared by the creepy monster with the suction cup fingertips. Then I remember having Cub Scout meetings and demanding that my parents drive me home faster, but I only got to see the last few minutes of the episodes that year (hmm, maybe that's why I dropped out of Cub Scouts after just one year).

[Captain Huff 0]

My father was an old IBM engineer and a diehard trekkie - We used to watch TOS in syndication in the evening while eating icecream... Two great loves were developed. Well, three if you count my Dad. :)

[Atragon9 0]

My father was an old IBM engineer and a diehard trekkie - We used to watch TOS in syndication in the evening while eating icecream... Two great loves were developed. Well, three if you count my Dad. :)

::wonders if it was coffee ice cream::

[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

My first Trek experience was trying to get my brother away from the TV during TOS episodes - he hogged the darned black-n-white!

 

Then I got to college and TOS was in its "regeneration" - couldn't do anything in the dorm on Tuesday nights 'cause we were ALL huddled around the one TV available in the lounge, waiting for Star Trek. And heaven help anything that pre-empted the program!

 

Yeah, I'm that old.

[Pneuma 0]

Ok There are 2 things I remember. First is the occasional ST rerun that my dad would watch. Than what left the biggest impression on my than young and impressionable mind. Star Trek TNG! My Dad watched that religiously and while at the time I remember vividly saying "Not Star Trek again!" That laid the foundations for this trekkie. The other day my dad was picking on me about how much I watch ST now all I could do is look at him and say "Its your fault. You got me into it!"

[DaryusWilliams 0]

My first memories of Trek were some of my first memories, of me and my dad watching TOS starting in 1966. I was 2 years old when the series premiered, and 5 when the last episode aired. I wasn't a happy camper. Two of my favorate shows were canceled within a year of each other, Batman and Star Trek. *LOL*

 

Zaphod,

[WesleyMustDie 0]

Believe it or not, I don't even remember my first Trek experience...I, literally, was a baby when TNG premiered, and Dad watched it with me from the beginning. The first episode of Trek I remember is actually from DS9, The Sword of Kahless.

[Grom 0]

This is a hard one. My parents had shown me a few TOS episodes when I was younger, but it's probably my mother's fault for getting me into it. She bought me three action figures (Riker, Georgi, and Spock). I thought they were so well made (the action figures, that is, and you gotta admit, Trek has some of the better action figures...at least better than those minature Star Wars ones) that I began watching the show. Two of the earliest episodes I remember are "Phatasms" and "Genesis," probably because they were somewhat bizzare.

 

I still claim to be a latecomer to Trek as I did not really begin watching seriously until after TNG stopped producing new episodes. I got into seasons 5-7 of DS9, but generally thought the earlier stuff was dull, and watched quite a bit of VOY.

[mtporter 0]

As a kid my mom would come home at 5, we would eat and then all do our own thing till bed time. I would watch tv in a back bedroom by myself. One night when I couldn't find anything to watch I decided to watch Star Trek out of boredom. I saw the episode when Deanna Troi takes all the emotions from the ambassador and goes crazy (i.e. Skank Troi). I thought it was pretty good and then when I was flipping thru the channels I found a rerun of TNG and I landed up watching that one as well. From then on I think I was hooked.

 

It's funny how most people found a love of Star Trek thru family members. No one in my family likes the show and even now they say it is just a phase I will grow out of. I just laugh, 17 years later and I still love the show, much to the dissapointment of my sisters.

[TKAR 0]

IT was man trap -got me hooked on star trek-since Lost in space was cappy sifi with a kid smatner then his scentist father and his mom did the wash......IT WAS INTERESTING that the doctor,security,capt saw te salt creature as different people-this was different

[Kansas_Jones 0]

No one in my family likes the show and even now they say it is just a phase I will grow out of. I just laugh, 17 years later and I still love the show, much to the dissapointment of my sisters.

 

A phase you will grow out of? Naaahhhh. ;-)

[DrDMatthews 0]

It's funny how most people found a love of Star Trek thru family members. No one in my family likes the show and even now they say it is just a phase I will grow out of. I just laugh, 17 years later and I still love the show, much to the dissapointment of my sisters.

 

 

I got hooked 40 years ago and never grew out of it. I'm going to have the theme from "Undiscovered Country" played at my funeral. :)

[Kallah Ramson 0]

I have been "aware" of Star Trek all my life. My mother went to the first Star Trek convention in Dallas. The first episode I remember watching was Man Trap. We were returning from vacation and we had a small portable tv. I just happened to turn it on when we were about an hour from home and there it was. It was odd cause I knew all the characters and the general plot but I realized then that this was the first episode I'd seen for myself (the local station had just taken up running it in syndication again). Me and my mother's brainwaves have always been the same and I think I just inherited her memories of Star Trek.

[Travis Kroells 0]

My first Trek experience has to be seeing TNG on TV back in the day when I was a youngin. I still dont understand why that bald man was a robot.

[Dumbass 0]

It was to save money on makeup.

 

::tackles Kroells::