Comments on: Migration to Star Trek Geekdom

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:38:28 +0000

OMG, James Marsters wold have been awesome – he could have made Shinzon, like, threatening!

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:36:58 +0000

ST IV opened the door, but Next Gen kicked me in the ass and knocked me full on into Trek.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:35:45 +0000

I think I had such a horrible experience with stealth watching ST II and getting dragged to ST III, that it tainted Trek for me for years afterward.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:40:12 +0000

I'd watched a few reruns of Classic Star Trek with my dad when I was young but I actually became a fan on the night Next Gen premiered (September 1987). I watched it with him and loved it. By my next birthday (April 1988, age 6) I was such a Trekkie that my birthday presents were a Captain Picard action figure and the video of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It was my gateway to the original series and it's still my favorite Classic Trek movie.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:39:28 +0000

Love this piece! Also, it's really interesting that ST IV got you into Trek. I watched the Original Series when I was little, and I thought (and still think) it's really child friendly. Brightly colored, 1960's earnest humor, tribbles… I didn't start watching the movies until I was in my teens.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:51:35 +0000

"I like to pretend I live in a world where ST V didn't happen. Or where it's been exiled to the Phantom Zone along with The Phantom Menace."

Me too. Also in my world Nemesis was much better because they cast James Marsters as the villain. (He was in the running, and several of the main cast have publicly said they think he would've been a better choice.) I think the ultimate solution to our dissatisfaction is the formation of a geek advisory committee for the entertainment industry that filmmakers can consult before they muck up our childhoods.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:53:52 +0000

Luckily for me, I'm not a scientist (but I could have been if someone had helped me in math instead of writing me off as a girl – yeah, I'm bitter), so bad science doesn't take me out of it (unless it's really bad, like anything Mohinder says on Heroes).

I like to pretend I live in a world where ST V didn't happen. Or where it's been exiled to the Phantom Zone along with The Phantom Menace.

By: AlphaGirl

AlphaGirl — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:47:58 +0000

Me too, Dad. Me too.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:25:24 +0000

Lisa I love how you get your life and Mom into your writing made me cry again, but that is a good thing!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:30:20 +0000

"Insufferable. Like watching Troy with a Classics major."

::raises hand:: Guilty. So very, very guilty. My friends now know that the very mention of this "film" can make me shudder. And yet they do it anyway, the sadists.

"The Voyage Home turned out to be my perfect gateway drug to Trek."

That's pretty amusing to me, considering that my sister-in-law (the marine biologist) can't stand Star Trek IV because of the bad science. Of course, she actually likes number five, aka The Search for God at the Center of the Galaxy, so what does she know?