Saturday, May 28, 2005
While I'm on the topic of geekdom, I will admit freely that I adore the classic "Star Trek" eps and used to watch them daily in the summer. When I was a kid, I mean. They'd come on in the middle of the day and I would use my hour of tv watching then, they were that good.
Yes, I also read the paperbacks and even got a hardcover from my ST-lovin' uncle for xmas one year. It was great, he had this huge shelf at the end of a hallway filled with ST (and other scifi, but I only read ST) paperbacks, and he'd let me borrow a new batch every time we went to his house. Good times. When TNG started up, my whole family would watch it together. I still have a TNG calendar from back then sitting in a box somewhere.
At some point, probably when I started going to public school, I broke up with "Star Trek" because I was already enough of a nerd what with the braininess and the second-hand-store clothes. (Maybe that's cool now, but it wasn't cool in eighth grade.) But today I will admit my dark secret: I want the ST boxed DVD set. And yes, I do watch the classic eps every now and then (thank you Dish!) and I will even dare to admit that I watch TNG eps once a month or so. (I don't think TNG has quite the kitsch factor of the classic, so that probly takes away some cool kid cred. I barely had any to start with, anyway.)
But I'm not sad that there are no "Star Trek" shows in production right now, because I got less and less interested in them with each reincarnation. I think I watched one ep of "Enterprise" and even that was too many, frankly.
There's really no point to this post, I was just wishing earlier that transporter technology actually existed, so I wouldn't have to make the long-ass drive to and from work or the twelve-hour drive to Alabama. (I think about this often, actually, but then my mind brings back repressed The Fly memories and I ick myself right out of that thought.)
Yes, I also read the paperbacks and even got a hardcover from my ST-lovin' uncle for xmas one year. It was great, he had this huge shelf at the end of a hallway filled with ST (and other scifi, but I only read ST) paperbacks, and he'd let me borrow a new batch every time we went to his house. Good times. When TNG started up, my whole family would watch it together. I still have a TNG calendar from back then sitting in a box somewhere.
At some point, probably when I started going to public school, I broke up with "Star Trek" because I was already enough of a nerd what with the braininess and the second-hand-store clothes. (Maybe that's cool now, but it wasn't cool in eighth grade.) But today I will admit my dark secret: I want the ST boxed DVD set. And yes, I do watch the classic eps every now and then (thank you Dish!) and I will even dare to admit that I watch TNG eps once a month or so. (I don't think TNG has quite the kitsch factor of the classic, so that probly takes away some cool kid cred. I barely had any to start with, anyway.)
But I'm not sad that there are no "Star Trek" shows in production right now, because I got less and less interested in them with each reincarnation. I think I watched one ep of "Enterprise" and even that was too many, frankly.
There's really no point to this post, I was just wishing earlier that transporter technology actually existed, so I wouldn't have to make the long-ass drive to and from work or the twelve-hour drive to Alabama. (I think about this often, actually, but then my mind brings back repressed The Fly memories and I ick myself right out of that thought.)
