Overwriting the Data

[jimkeller]

I found a copy of Star Trek season 1 on Blu-ray used for a great price a little over a week ago. Since my husband has been working odd hours this week, I've been popping the discs in while I've been working on something mindless or when I need a break.

Let me preface this all by saying that as a kid, I was that kid. You know, the one who couldn'

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[mlerules]

Ah, I was wondering 'bout that tattoo. ;-P

What you have NOT forgotten, and what I think matters incredibly muchly, is the emotional impact of the series, of the characters, of how much it/they made you care...when you were first learning how to and what it meant to care. IT = the show w/THEY = the combo of craftsfolk & artists which brought you something special and unique to you, helping you build templates and forms, helping form your identify.

Yes, data gets overwritten, but long may the emotions prevail and invoke wonderfullness...

[jimkeller]

Yes, I very much credit Star Trek with helping cement my adult commitment to diversity. Obviously, my parents also deserve much of the credit there, as do my teachers. But Star Trek showed me, from a young age, that it's perfectly normal to have an African woman in a position of authority, or a Japanese man driving a space ship, or even an out-and-out alien who doesn't quite fit in still being a valued and respected member of the team. It was that normalcy that Trek gave to what, I now understand, was a novel and not-fully-accepted worldview that is so important to my self-identity today.

And, if you're willing to roll with the '60s storytelling conventions, many of the episodes are still very emotionally impactful.

[mlerules]

:-)

[lizziebelle]

Did you ever get to go to the Star Trek Experience in Vegas? It was cool to see some of the props, which look even cheesier in person.

[jimkeller]

Never got to the Star Trek Experience, but I've had the pleasure of seeing the props and costumes in other venues. I remember the first time I saw a uniform shirt being taken aback that it was made of velour. The fabric looked so otherworldly on the screen, but so mundane in person. (Of course, on Blu-ray, it looks like velour, but I'm O.K. with that.)

[essentialsaltes]

I sympathize. For maybe the first 15-20 years of my life, TOS was always and copiously available in syndication, and I soaked it all up.

Then it disappeared for the next couple decades (or migrated to cable channels I'm too cheap to pay for). So my Trek memory started to fade, and I also think that TNG sort of reset in my mind what 'Trek' is like as a show. So on those rare occasions when I see TOS, sometimes it's quite a shock. Nevertheless, science fiction (done right) is the fiction of ideas, and I've kept a better grasp of those ideas, and those are still there in the original show.

Happy Fourth! E Plebnista!

[the_celestia]

I read all the way through just to find out about the unfortunate tattoo :)