Star Trek banned!

[Brian G Turner]

At least, in my household.

I got the first series of Star Trek: the Original Series DVD collection for Christmas, and we had been watching some at tea-time.

However, Hannah - who turned 6 at the weekend - finds it too scary.

Despite the odd props and dated effects she's completely drawn into the action, and even Captain Kirk merely being threatened sends her into paroxyms of fear.

Tonight would have been "Arena" where Kirk goes one-and-one against the Gorn nasty-evil-lizard-thing...

But I've been asked to stop the show, and Hannah says it's best if she watches it when she's older and its not so scary for her.

Tragedy.

 

[Princess Ivy]

do what i do babe and only watch tv at two in the morning when there is no one else around to be influenced by my own eclectic tastes. Although i must say i find most of the kids programs today quite scary. In fact Barney features in most of my worst nightmares...

 

[Circus Cranium]

I'm trying to think back if I ever found the original Trek scary when I was little, and yeah, I guess some of it was. Of course this was before we could sort out seeing the zippers on the backs of the aliens and the boom mic hanging from the ceiling. Ah, gotta love old Trek.

 

[Bel_Azad]

Well Star Trek TOS is now on Sci FI in UK at 7pm and I am watching some episodes that I originally seen many years ago.

Surprisingly, my kids, 5 and 7 are really into it and like the chars. Usually they would try and force me to switch to Boomerang or CN but with TOS they are happy to watch!!

EDIT - they never liked DS9, Voyager or TNG

 

[The Ace]

Just wait till, she's in bed. You can alwas watch it with her again when she's bigger.

 

[kythe]

I wouldn't have thought of TOS as being scary, but it does make sense. Small children can easily be frightened by costumes and watching threats and fights, if they don't understand it isn't real.

My kids don't have a problem with Star Trek, but they do find Lord of the Rings scary. Of course, it is rated PG-13 for a reason!

 

[HappyHippo]

I remember being terrified by the tribbles aged 6 or so.

I can't believe I admitted that in public!

There was also an episode (I believe, it may be a hallucination from when I had chickenpox) with pancake-creatures on the cieling. This gave me nightmare for a couple of weeks.

My daughter's nearly 8, and won't watch TOS, TNG, or Doctor Who. She has a highly active imagination, and won't sleep after watching them, so we don't. I do as Princess Ivy does, and watch everything at 2am... thank the Lord for Sky+!

 

[Frontierzone]

You want to know what's funny? When I was little, I was the opposite of your Hannah. I loved scary movies and TV shows, especially the classic horror and sci-fi films. (I can't stand the modern stuff.) I had to sneak to watch Dark Shadows when my mom was at work, because I was forbidden to watch it. But I never saw Star Trek until I was much older. (Not counting The animated series in the early 1970's, which was my first taste of Trek. It was around that time that the toy bridge set and action figures came out, and mom got me those for Christmas.)