Which of the series first made you a Star Trek fan?

[Dru]

your Avatar? *raises eyebrow* and how is that possable?

 

[Neo]

really.... never of guessed...he he he

 

[logan_run]

star trek voyage home reeled me in..

 

[kythe]

I grew up with TNG, but I remember babysitters who watched TOS reruns. So I have been a fan of both series for as long as I can remember.

 

[Nick B]

Actual Star Trek. With Kirk etc. After that... Meh.

 

[Ensign Shah]

Grew up with TNG... Picard practically raised me! Love all of them!

 

[BAYLOR]

The original series.

 

[dask]

The original series also. Really. Yes, honestly. I'm not joking Lee!

 

[Droflet]

TOS, of course. Although I like TNG I found it boring by comparison with the original. Maybe that's just me.

 

[hopewrites]

TOS played in rerun before new episodes of TNG on my home station. I remember yelling at my younger siblings one golden summer evening "hey get off those boring monkey bars and get in here. StarTrek is starting!" and being disappointed in their futures when they would rather stay out side in the FREASH AIR and fading sunshine than COME INSIDE and watch SciFi.
I stayed a pretty hard core fan till about half way through DS9 when I realized that it (and most sci-fi I was into) was all just social commentary dressed up in aliens and cyborgs. Went back to fantasy, and never faulted my siblings for playing outside again.

 

[psikeyhackr]

I was a science fiction fan before there was a Star Trek. I do not consider myself to be a Star Trek fan. Deep Space Nine is the best Star Trek series. As far as I can tell most Star Trek fans do not agree.

psik

 

[Vince W]

TOS for me. I was a teenager when TNG hit the screens and I was already heavily invested in Star Trek by then.

 

[Vladd67]

As a little kid I watched TOS and then the animated series, I even got excited about the first film, until I saw it.

 

[Droflet]

Oh, yes, Star Trek the Motion Picture. They made up for in with TWOK.

 

[Grimward]

*Cough wheeze hack retch*

How in the world did you manage to dig this thread up from under all that dust, logan_run? And isn't it a migrant from the previous version of The Chrons? Some reasonable archaeological work going on there; you're lucky you didn't disturb the other things that dwell down in those levels.

Enough thread derailment (from ME, that is). I remember coming in from the daily pickup football/baseball/whatever game as a kid after school to catch the Star Trek original series reruns on the only UHF station our television set got (received well, anyway, there were less than a handful of others that were grainy, and I don't mean grainy by today's high def standards!). None of the major networks (all were VHF frequencies for the longer range) carried Star Trek daily by that point, at least not during the hours I was allowed to watch television. Had to catch Spock... (moment of silence for Nimoy) ...way too cool and different from any other protagonist out there at that point in my experience. Everything that came after was just icing on the cake (occasionally and unfortunately, sometimes dross, too).

 

[Droflet]

Yep, Grim, quite right. When it was good it was very, very good, and when it was bad it was . Big fan of TOS but let's be honest. Although the good was great, they could, on the odd occasion drop the ball. So, I have in my library only about thirty of the originals, the very best thirty.

 

[BAYLOR]

Oh, yes, Star Trek the Motion Picture. They made up for in with TWOK.

Visually it's stunning . Unfortunately the pace of the film is also stunning but not in a good way.

 

[Deep Space Nina]

Of course TOS! Although I was so young at that age when I watched it together with my elder brother. (Around five years of age.) So I was still quite often afraid. But also fascinated ...

 

[BAYLOR]

I remember seeing the last season of trek before it was canceled.

 

[MWagner]

Watched TOS in re-runs when I was a kid in the 70s. Was excited when TNG premiered, and watched most of the first season. But I was 17 by then and had other priorities in life. Other than a handful of random episodes caught while bored and flicking through channels, I didn't follow TNG after season 1, or any of the other series.

Now that I have kids of an age that can appreciate Star Trek, we're going through the series in order, watching 'best of' episodes. The kids really enjoyed TOS (and I enjoyed re-watching them), and now it's on to TNG. I'm excited at the prospect of getting into the seasons I haven't seen, so I can enjoy it with fresh eyes alongside the kids.