Fan-girl reborn
Well, I appear to have turned into a screaming Star Trek fan-girl again. My obsessions have always been cyclical. Don't get me wrong. I still know Wednesday Addams' middle name (Thursday) while I'm obsessing over the finer points of quidditch... but I only seem to have the time and energy to focus on one fandom at a time. This is a good thing, and probably keeps me out of the nut house.
As a kid, and straight through high school and at least part way through college I was a HUGE Star Trek fan. As a very small child it was the one show my dad and I agreed on. My family mostly watched sitcoms in the evenings, and when this was pre-empted for something my dad wanted to watch, I grumped and generally made the across-the-board decision that Dad's shows were boring.* I remember this largely because I remember having this attitude the night we sat down as a family to watch the premier of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I remember, after that first viewing, turning around to my family as the credits rolled, and asking if we could watch this show again tomorrow. At this point my mother explained to me how syndication worked and I spent the next week eagerly awaiting the next episode. Strangely, I don't actually remember much TNG, since I haven't seen most of it since it originally aired.
What I really remember is the original series. When I was a little bit older my dad bought a bunch of TOS VHS off of a friend who was selling them for cheap. Watching them together was one of our major bonding activities when I was a kid. There are almost certainly episodes we didn't own and which I haven't seen (blissfully, I believe this includes most of season 3), but the episodes we did own I'm sure I watched ad nauseum.
In high school I watched DS9 obsessively (although I missed the final season and still don't know who won the war... I should probably get on that), and played the CMO of the Pegasus in a Star Trek play by email RPG (Tango Fleet). My freshman year of college I watched two or three episodes of Voyager each night--thank you syndication. I wasn't Trekkies bad, but I was definitely a fan-girl.
With all that being said... before seeing the movie last weekend, I don't know the last time I sat down to watch an episode or sat at the computer reading about back stage trivia or anything like that. Today, I spent about an hour poking through trekicons. Yeah. For good or ill: fan-girl rebirth.
*In retrospect I really wish I'd paid more attention. Can you believe I've never seen any of the old James Bond movies?
As a kid, and straight through high school and at least part way through college I was a HUGE Star Trek fan. As a very small child it was the one show my dad and I agreed on. My family mostly watched sitcoms in the evenings, and when this was pre-empted for something my dad wanted to watch, I grumped and generally made the across-the-board decision that Dad's shows were boring.* I remember this largely because I remember having this attitude the night we sat down as a family to watch the premier of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I remember, after that first viewing, turning around to my family as the credits rolled, and asking if we could watch this show again tomorrow. At this point my mother explained to me how syndication worked and I spent the next week eagerly awaiting the next episode. Strangely, I don't actually remember much TNG, since I haven't seen most of it since it originally aired.
What I really remember is the original series. When I was a little bit older my dad bought a bunch of TOS VHS off of a friend who was selling them for cheap. Watching them together was one of our major bonding activities when I was a kid. There are almost certainly episodes we didn't own and which I haven't seen (blissfully, I believe this includes most of season 3), but the episodes we did own I'm sure I watched ad nauseum.
In high school I watched DS9 obsessively (although I missed the final season and still don't know who won the war... I should probably get on that), and played the CMO of the Pegasus in a Star Trek play by email RPG (Tango Fleet). My freshman year of college I watched two or three episodes of Voyager each night--thank you syndication. I wasn't Trekkies bad, but I was definitely a fan-girl.
With all that being said... before seeing the movie last weekend, I don't know the last time I sat down to watch an episode or sat at the computer reading about back stage trivia or anything like that. Today, I spent about an hour poking through trekicons. Yeah. For good or ill: fan-girl rebirth.
*In retrospect I really wish I'd paid more attention. Can you believe I've never seen any of the old James Bond movies?