I actually grew up during ST TOS, and at the time, couldn't get into it.. Got into it after it went into syndication. I was 6 years old when it first came out, but since, have seen everything on film (that I know of) and really love how they tie in everything, relationships, technology, awareness, and even through it all, it remained for the most part individual decisions. How different than how our society has become when the will of the politicians have influenced our lives so much.

me too

I'm definitely in. I'm somewhat surprised by the large feeling of loss I feel at the news of Leonard Nimoy's death. But Mr. Spock will never die.

Actually in Australia they would be "trekkos". They like to end nicknames with "o" as well. For examples Fremantle is Freo, Rottnest Island is Rotto and of course we yanks are the infamous "seppos"

My heart is beating faster, just having read that.

Jan, loves B5 too

Except that sentients are not experimental animals in cages or bacteria in a Petri plate. If you find a foreign culture that has nothing to trade and you are not sure if they want you to disrupt their civilization...Ask them.

I think that is a flaw in the Prime Directive. Would 14th Century Europe have told benign aliens, "Go away and let us die of the Black Death."? I doubt it. As a matter of fact, I think that there would be 99% decision to invite contact.

I have been reading a book on the genetics of European migrations and we are all the descendants of repeated contacts between superior and inferior technologies (often peaceful contacts, surprisingly enough).

Jan

Me. me. memememememe.

SF, Fantasy, LOTR. Trekie. Comics.

io9 is rife with liberals - pity. I occasionally comment on a thread...with predictable results.

Jan

I Love the Franchise. I Also grew up with the Monkees...and before anyone laughs hysterically...I have met all of them, and can defend anything the RNR HOF sez they are not. But I digress. I liked the original show, but I found TNG more to my liking as many of the Cast members of the Original show made appearances with the TNG'rs.

lol

I have been a fan of Startrek ever since Gene Rodenberry came to JPL to gather technical data for the original series. Many of us that worked on the space program owe a lot to the Startrek series and its ideas. Rodenberry helped shape the future in many ways. Sadly many of the original cast are gone. Scotty, Bones, and now Spock. We miss them all.

There was a subtle reference to Mirror Mirror and another episode "The Enemy Within" in the Start Trek Movie: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). when Spok's half brother tried to "help him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzJAebf...
You can see the difference between the good and evil sides of the same person.

Definitely a fan of the original "Star Trek" here and have been since I was a child. Beyond the plywood sets and the wooden acting (and the computer that was slower than a Commodore 64), it was often a show about ideas. Not always ideas I agreed with, to be sure. But how many TV shows encourage one to think? At its best, "Star Trek" did.

It is all too easy to forget that many of the episodes were thinly-disguised hot-button issues of the time.

I've been a science fiction fan since before it was called science fiction. Star Trek was the first well produced, space opera with interesting characters, inventive plots, and considering the times, good special effects. How could any S.F. fan worthy of the name not fall in love with it? And, it turns out, that Rodenberry's suspicion that there were many more fans of the genre out there than met the eye, was true.

I am most definitely a Trekkie (I think the term "Trekkers" is just for snobs). I wish I could have had a chance to talk to Leonard Nimoy when he was in town for Starfest.

I am a HUGE trekkie. Many people do not know that Star Trek had many significant "firsts."

1st interracial kiss: Star Trek, Capt. Kirk and Uhura, episode : "Plato's Stepchildren"
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/10/TVs-...
I would kiss her for sure.

So much of the "fantasy" of Star Trek has actually come true. I owned a Motorola Razr, that could call the space station "if I had their number", flipped open just like the communicator.

Gene Roddenberry's wife, had a lot of roles in Star Trek. She was Nurse Chapel, She played Deanna Troy's mother in STNG, she was also the voice of the computer on the Enterprise.

I also LOVED DS9, and the introduction of the Ferengi. Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, my favorite of which is a take off of "Charity Beings as home." theirs was "Exploitation begins at home."
http://projectsanctuary.com/the_complete...
http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/

111. Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them.

On a Pale Horse was the one I liked the best out of the series.

Me

One of the most memorable episodes, on a lot of levels, from TOS was...

Mirror, Mirror

I sure did...and then my friends gathered in a basement where there was a TV and no one to interrupt. Most of our parents didn't want us to watch it. Come to think of it, we all got a bit of an education watching for the sets to move, the microphone to drop into the picture, or what have you.

haha.

No Catholic school girl. I think I was six? It was considered too violent. I watched from behind the couch at the sitter’s house. Times have changed.

I was all-Star Trek AGAIN?

I didn’t read that series. I tried a Piers Anthony book years ago, but I could not get into it. I will have to try again. I love Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher, and Robert Asprin.

Not allowed to watch Star Trek? Were you Amish?

Of course they are.:)
The two shows I was not allowed to watch were Star Trek and Dark Shadows. So, of course they shaped my childhood.