29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 5
Feb. 10th, 2012 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofeleven5 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
You grow up reading science fiction, and it’s impossible not to be aware that there’s this thing called Star Trek. On the other hand, the sheer scale of the series can be a little intimidating, even back when there were only three series and six movies.
As I said yesterday, I finally took the plunge and rented some TNG episodes the video library had. I chose I, Borg because the picture of Hugh on the cover looked cool. In hindsight, it was probably one of the worst episodes to pick as an introduction to the series…
After being utterly confused by that episode, it was a while before I took the plunge again, this time renting Star Trek VI, which was a lot more entertaining to my ten year old self, though there was a lot of it I completely failed to understand. I remember being utterly convinced for some reason that the Klingons were from Venus, and thought the bit where the Starfleet officers are wearing spacesuits to assassinate Gorkon on his flagship that they were some sort of malfunctioning robots…
After that, I borrowed all the Star Trek novels I could find in the local library, and found them a lot easier to follow – or at least, I thought I could follow them, though in hindsight I’m willing to bet my interpretation of Diane Duane’s novels having never actually seen any Romulan episodes was probably… creative at best.
And then TOS reruns started airing regularly on TV, and I finally got a chance to see a version of Star Trek that wasn’t leaving me utterly lost in references to things I hadn’t seen.
You grow up reading science fiction, and it’s impossible not to be aware that there’s this thing called Star Trek. On the other hand, the sheer scale of the series can be a little intimidating, even back when there were only three series and six movies.
As I said yesterday, I finally took the plunge and rented some TNG episodes the video library had. I chose I, Borg because the picture of Hugh on the cover looked cool. In hindsight, it was probably one of the worst episodes to pick as an introduction to the series…
After being utterly confused by that episode, it was a while before I took the plunge again, this time renting Star Trek VI, which was a lot more entertaining to my ten year old self, though there was a lot of it I completely failed to understand. I remember being utterly convinced for some reason that the Klingons were from Venus, and thought the bit where the Starfleet officers are wearing spacesuits to assassinate Gorkon on his flagship that they were some sort of malfunctioning robots…
After that, I borrowed all the Star Trek novels I could find in the local library, and found them a lot easier to follow – or at least, I thought I could follow them, though in hindsight I’m willing to bet my interpretation of Diane Duane’s novels having never actually seen any Romulan episodes was probably… creative at best.
And then TOS reruns started airing regularly on TV, and I finally got a chance to see a version of Star Trek that wasn’t leaving me utterly lost in references to things I hadn’t seen.