Your life...before Star Trek....

[Klingon Empire]

Well, I'll put it like this.

I was born into Star Trek, never had a memory that didn't include Star Trek, ever since I was able to comprehend TV, I was watching Star Trek.

Damn right y'all.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I discovered Star Trek when I wasn't quite 3 years old... First run 1966. I don't remember very much before that point so I've pretty grown up with Star Trek.

Might explain why the newer stuff doesn't 'rock' my boat like the original.

Im with you cruiser, though I do like DS9.

I was six and remember watching TOS- season three with my uncle. I can still remember the two of us watching "The Paradise Syndrome" and going "Kiirooock!!!" at the end...great memories..

Rob

 

[SpyOne]

I was born in 1969: there was no me before Star Trek.
Further, my brothers were born in 1959 and 1961. My grandfather had bought the family a color tv, because the Wonderful World of Disney was broadcast in color. I suspect having a color tv is part of why the family watched so much NBC (the first network that was all in color), so my brothers were among the people who wrote angry letters to NBC when they heard Star Trek was going to be canceled.
My earliest memory that references Star Trek is from when I was about five: a new kid had moved to the neighborhood (he would be my best friend throughout elementary school), and among the cool things he owned was a complete set of the Mego action figures and the Enterprise Bridge playset.
I remember that I knew what it all was: there was a Klingon, and a Gorn, and Uhura, and McCoy, and the phasers and tricorders and communicators came in two different colors (on for Starfleet and one for the others. The Gorn wore a Klingon uniform. He even had a figure of those guys from Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

What I'm saying is, before I was in kindergarden I was apparently familiar with all the iconic episodes of TOS. For me, there was no life before Star Trek, and my love of Star Trek was fostered by the same influences as my love of the Beatles, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Winnie the Pooh, the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Kelley: they were the things my parents and brothers enjoyed sharing with me when I was very small.

 

[Kagan]

I was born in 1965, so I don't recall TOS in its first run.

But my earliest memories are of watching other '60s shows that made it into the early '70s such as: Hogan's Heroes, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The F.B.I., and Hawaii Five-O. Yep, crime dramas were big for me as a 5,6, and 7 year old. Our local stations didn't run TOS in rerun from fall 1969 at the time.

The culture I lived in caused me to watch everything on TV that related to the Apollo space program, moon landings, and anything NASA. I wanted to be an astronaut, but other than the "real" thing in news reports...there was no other "space" input until I broke my femur. It was in Children's Hospital that I was exposed to TOS in reruns.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Like another poster, I was 'born' into Star Trek. (This was during the time of Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Jason of Star Command, Three's Company....etc...)

I even remember having a blue-shirt pajama top from Sears(?) with little insignia and everything....

I was set!

 

[RobertScorpio]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

 

[RandyS]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I remember getting them one christmas. The whole set!!! Damn, i wonder how much they would be worth. And I got good use out of them. With no new episodes/movies years off, and not yet into the books, it was my only way to keep on exploring brave new worlds until the new era started with TMP..

Rob

 

[Ssosmcin]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

What's great is that you can buy the repros and relive your childhood long before senility sets in. And because they are repros, you won't feel like you destroyed an investment by opening the box.

 

[I am not Spock]

I was born in 1982, and got obsessed with Trek from about the age of 11 or 12. So I do remember life before Trek. Before that, it was a series of other obsessions. Inspector Gadget, Thomas The Tank Engine, Sonic The Hedgehog, Tintin, Ninja Turtles, Adam West Batman, etc. When I saw repeats of TOS and TNG, I became hooked, and never looked back. Trek has been a constant in my life ever since. I'm still a big fan today.

 

[Kagan]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

Wow! You guys lived in privileged luxury. I had to make my transporter room out of cardboard, construction paper, and aluminum foil. But at least mine had all six pads.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

Wow! You guys lived in privileged luxury. I had to make my transporter room out of cardboard, construction paper, and aluminum foil. But at least mine had all six pads.

oh shut up!!! LOL...

Thanks to my sister, and her collection of Barbies, Kirk had his pick of 8feet tall blond babes!!!...cant go wrong there.

Rob

 

[RandyS]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

Wow! You guys lived in privileged luxury. I had to make my transporter room out of cardboard, construction paper, and aluminum foil. But at least mine had all six pads.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, four years later, I had the same thing with the original line of the Star Wars toys.

At least until Christmas 1978 when my mom bought me all the then-available toys. She secretly liked to play with them too.

 

[seigezunt]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

I found that in the attic the other day. Great stuff.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I had the dolls and old bridge set from TOS....remember how you'd twist the transporter, press a button, and they were gone? loved that stuff

Rob

The plastic set? Yeah I had that too.

I found that in the attic the other day. Great stuff.

When my mom opened up my set and did that transporter thing? It blew my mind. I actually thought the doll had indeed transported away!!!

Rob

 

[GeorgeKirk]

During my childhood, Mego's Trek line was no more and the Playmates toys didn't come along until I was a teenager. All I had were 3 TMP figures, Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty, that my grandmother found in a store somewhere in the early '80s. I used them with my Star Wars figures and the "playset" I built out of shoeboxes.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

We all had a life before Star Trek. Do you remember what it was like?

Yeah. I spent my days shitting in my diapers and my nights sucking my mothers tits. Of course I was only two when I discovered Trek so I can be forgiven such excesses. Any day now I'm gonna master the potty and my mom's gonna take the breast away but I'll always have Star Trek!

 

[Mr_Homn]

I've been watching TNG since I was in diapers (it came out in 1987, the year I was born), so I don't really have a life before star trek.

For most of my adolescence I didn't watch though, so at least I had a lot of time away from it before rediscovering it in my 20s! I started watching TOS for the first time at around age 20 too, and I love it.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Well, since I was introduced to TOS at a young age, my life before Trek was the same as my life during Trek: playing with toys, looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons, etc...

 

[Gul Re'jal]

We all had a life before Star Trek. Do you remember what it was like?

Not really.

I was 8 when my dad took me to a cinema to watch The Voyage Home. My life before ST was... Spockless. After ST - Spockful