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Bixyboo

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So....how into Star Trek were ya?

I (as pre-teen/teen) was VERY into the Original Star Trek Series!

I was a die-hard 'Trekker'

(Trekkie was a term used for those/by those who were simply slightly into Star Trek).

I had ALL the fiction Star Trek novels and read them voraciously.

My favorite characters: Spock, Saavik, Kirk, Bones, Scotty. (liked Kirsty Alley's version of her, but Robin Curtis was good as Saavik, too).

I even had a sweatshirt printed with the name 'SPOCK' on the back and made everyone call me Spock.
Flashed the Live Long and Prosper sign all the time.

Went to several Star Trek Conventions during the early and mid 80's. Even met the actor who played Spock's father! (blank on his name, right now! Mark Leonard?). I know he's since passed away.

I also got to see in person Leonard Nimoy give a lecture at a College somewhere in Fla area (can't remember exactly where right now!).
I was so thrilled at the time tho, lol!
I waited and waited for him to sign one of his poetry books, but he left immediately after the lecture :(

I loved all the movies, but my favorite was Star Trek II. Cried my SOUL out at the end when Spock died, lol! :rolleyes:

Oh and my other crush was in ST II, always had a crush on Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Rourke in Fantasy Island *blush*).

*Revenge is a dish best served in the cold. It is verrrry cold in space*

Liked The Next Generation a little bit, but just never found time to watch all those eps, so eventually lost interest.

Never got into the other ST series.

Yes, I was a geeky, nerdy girl, lol! :p

I even had a favorite PLANE at the time, (SR-71 Blackbird. Anyone else liked that one, too?)

So, how many other Trekkers here! Favorite characters, shows?

Bixyboo
 
despite the fact that i look like a Klingon without any hollywood makeup


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Star Trek is just one of many Sci Fi things im into, i found Space1999 and its technical premise more satisfying.
o have 50 odd ST novels and biographys etcs, and about 60 star wars books , but i have 140 odd doctor who novels...... the list goes on

i have watched every episode and move, but i never identified as a trekkie so much as a sci fi fan in general.

if i had to pick a costume to wear to a party, id rather commander Koenigs uniform, than capt Kirks.

batleth above is in production.

completed pair below (wife asked me to built these)

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Wow, cool pics, Mike!

Wasn't into the Klingon/Romulan culture, much. (Altho I did know some Klingon terms, lol!).

I also got into Dr. Who a little bit. Watched an episode by accident one time and actually liked it, but that was the extent, watching some of the shows.

Was also into D & D gaming and live role-playing games at the time. Star Trek was one of my favorite live-role-playing games, and of course, I'd be a Vulcan (or half-vulcan).

Oh, and I also had a few of the Star Trek technical manuals. And a few Tribbles!:)

Had a couple Star Trek Collector books 'I Am Not Spock'. Got a copy in a vacuum packed frame for my high-school graduation, in fact! (Then it was stolen a few years later!!) (the book was considered kinda rare at the time, but now I don't think it is, with the Net). I still own a couple copies of that book that I found a few years later.

Oh the good ol' days, huh?

Bixyboo
 
I liked TOS, but I'm not really into the Social Workers In Space turn it took with the Next Generation stuff.
But I have made it my life's mission to hunt down and exterminate every last goddamn Bajoran, on the grounds of them being an entire species of intensely annoying simpering gits.
 
I think the attachments say it all... met Shatner, Nimoy, Picardo, Phillips and Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat) in Minneapolis last year, got their autographs...

Yeah, I'm a Trekker.

And, it's Mark Lenard.

Heh. :)
 

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You're right, Gil. It was Mark Lenard. I do remember it was spelled that way, now that you wrote it.

And WOW YOU got Nimoy's autograph not once, but twice! *I bow to you!*

I should still try to score Nimoy's autograph, damn it! (Jim!) :p

*sigh*

Bixyboo
 
Hmmm, the original Star Trek was a thing of unquestioned greatness to me when I was growing up. For some reason one form this took was that I have disdain for subsequent Star Trek shows and willfully have never gotten into them.

I had big admiration for Star Trek even into my early 20s, then I think didn't see the show much for 10+ years. A year or so ago I started watching the 'remastered' episodes and honestly for the first time saw some of the flaws to the show. I know that sounds lame but it's true; I think I just loved the show so much as a kid I overlooked some of the cheesiness for a very long time.

I still like the show a lot and suspect it had a bigger influence on me than I know. Something about having a high regard for it at a young age.

I remember when I was a teenager one of the local non-network broadcast stations (I think it was channel 22 out of Dayton, OH; might've been channel 19 out of Cincinnati though) would occasionally show 5 Star Trek episodes on a Sunday that someone at the station had selected for some theme, and this was an event in the household of urkotic, the whole family getting in on this.

Other science fiction or at least nerdy objects of kid urkotic's affection (all pretty much sub Star Trek): Godzilla, Planet of the Apes, Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, UFOs, Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle.
 
urkotic! YES! *high five*

The Original Star Trek WAS *great*! Mainly due to the writers of the show, I mean deep topics would be taken up in that show, remember? (prejudice albeit couched in prejudice towards the 'Aliens' and other topics of the time and timeless ones at that).

And same here: I had disdain for ANY other non-original Star Trek series, too! (tho Picard WAS kinda wormin' his way into my heart).

Same here on seeing the 'cheeziness' of Original Star Trek, years later, yet, the WRITING of the episodes rarely wore thin...(imho).

Even the OST Movies still had that rare charm. yet again, I think they had some of the original writers, and yes, it WAS the actors, too...Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan and Kelley had a very good comraderie and it shone thru each ep and movie (imho again).

That original series made history in so many ways!

I wish I could remember which channel I watched it on....it was in South Floriday during the 70's and even thru the 80's, so.....(it probably still plays on some nick at night channel or something, or ALN (channel 218 on our cable channel, it still plays shows like the original Mission Impossible. etc)
 
I love Star trek and Star Wars.... Though I would give the edge to Star Trek. I used to love the "Who would win" debates I used to have with friends. (Yeah, my nerd to cool ration was pretty one sided.)

This is really good.
I've always wondered, would the Vulcan neck pinch work on a wookie?
 
Although I've been a hard core sci-fi fan since grade school, I've never found much appeal in any of the Star Trek franchises. Rodenberry liked to preach too much, and the later series seemed totally bland and had some of the worst production designs I've ever seen.
(So what's with the Klingons, anyway? In the original series they appeared human, but beginning with the first movie their heads turned into turtle shells or something. Same with the Romulans. Somehow they morphed into Neanderthals with jutting brow ridges instead of the Vulcan genetic stock or whatever they were supposed to have been. Was any reasonable explanation ever given for those drastic changes?)
You want good sci-fi on television, watch Firefly reruns. The scripts sometimes overcooked the wild west scenario, but the acting was good and the overall look was believable.
 
Firefly? Yes, particularly if you have high definition TV? But I have the DVD set. Too bad the movie version, Serenity, did only middling business. But it did feature Summer Glau, our favorite "Terminator." :)
 
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