Anybody remember Star Trek PRE The Motion Picture ?

[Mikey]

Just wondering, does anyone remember Star Trek before the release of Star Trek The Motion Picture ?

Trek reruns in the 70's .......

The whole Trek Universe was made up of 79 episodes and few cartoons we never counted as canon.

Man, those were the days .....

If you wanted to "own" your own Star Trek episode you have to record it of the TV with a tape recorder live

[shellhead]

Actually, the animated series is considered canon. James Tiberius Kirk owes his middle name the cartoon. The holodeck also made its first appearance in the cartoon also.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Actually, the animated series is considered canon. James Tiberius Kirk owes his middle name the cartoon. The holodeck also made its first appearance in the cartoon also.

Well, it may have changed, but Paramount officially decreed the animated series NOT a part of canon in the early 90s when the Star Trek Encyclopedia was first published. Even then though the authors acknoledged that some elements were taken from the series and adopted as canon.

I don't remember Star Trek pre-TMP. I had a Spock Mego someone bought me and I had no idea who he was. I saw the ads for TMP in the comics of the time (on the inside front cover) and wondered what it was about. My dad FINALLY convinced me to watch a Trek episode (I believe it was "Arena") when I was 6 and I was hooked.

Chris

Chris

[Mikey]

Actually, the animated series is considered canon. James Tiberius Kirk owes his middle name the cartoon. The holodeck also made its first appearance in the cartoon also.

I'm talking about PRE motion picture.

Forget about everything afterwards and what's been "made" canon over the years since.

[david_b]

Well, it may have changed, but Paramount officially decreed the animated series NOT a part of canon in the early 90s when the Star Trek Encyclopedia was first published. Even then though the authors acknoledged that some elements were taken from the series and adopted as canon.

I don't remember Star Trek pre-TMP. I had a Spock Mego someone bought me and I had no idea who he was. I saw the ads for TMP in the comics of the time (on the inside front cover) and wondered what it was about. My dad FINALLY convinced me to watch a Trek episode (I believe it was "Arena") when I was 6 and I was hooked.

Chris

Chris

I've heard that too, but with Paramount finally releasing it on DVD a few years back, I think they've reversed their stance on it..

Frankly, I'm loving them more than most Trek I've seen. Excellent stories, plus to me, if it had Roddenberry at the helm, contributing writers from the original series and Shatner/Nimoy voicing the characters, it's canon.

Pure and simple.

Actually, the whole canon idea is fairly bunk now anyways from a franchise perspective, since the only new product will be the new pre-original series movie, so with no new canon-contributing creations coming on television anytime soon, it's basically not an issue to contend with anymore..

And that new movie's certainly not going to be canon, primarily due to Roddenberry (and Berman, the only officially sanctioned replacement to Gene..) not being involved.

[jds1911a1]

back then my brother and I never missed trek reruns (unless Tunabout Intruder was on then we turned off the old 13" b/w) The cartoon I saw when it was on ??nbc?? but I don't recall it in reruns before TMP. My afternoons were Start trek, starblazers, 67 spiderman cartoons. oh and some gold key trek comics. Loved the old 45 records too (still have some)

[Brue]

of course I remember trek pre movies! - the episodes aired saturday at noon and i think late night friday for a while as well. how could a sci fi geek make it through the early seventies without watching it regularly?

[Werewolf]

To me the series was new when I saw it syndication as little kid and I really liked the cartoon and thought it was just a continuation of the show. I'm also pretty sure Kirk was my very first Mego figure. The stuff was all new to me. Had no idea I was watching re-runs.

Anyone else remember all the hype of the planned Paramount Channel launching with a new Trek series?

[Captain]

I remember those days well. Canon back then meant a chubby guy driving a big arse Ford and working as a PI! Trek was on everyday between 4 and 5 PM. I used to hate having to "compromise" with my little Sister and watch the Brady Bunch from 4-4:30, and then watch the last half hour of Trek. At least for a couple years in 74' and 75' (or so) I could watch the cartoon uninterrupted.

I remember reading Trek Lives, and the Making of Star Trek over and over again, because along with James Blish's tv adaption book series, it was pretty much all this voraciously hungry Trek addict could find. I knew about the Technical manual and blueprints that were advertised in comic books...but never saw them live and in person until the re-issues came out for the 20th anniversary.

I remember when the novel "Spock Must Die" came out, and anybody who was a Trekkie went nuts because it was the first real new Trek in a long time. (Trekker?...never heard of that term back then...I think the Yuppies made it up in the eighties!)

Soon Allan Dean Fosters Log books came out to add to the reading list. Yes, Gold Key had Trek comics....but even at that tender age I could figure out whomever was writing and drawing them had never seen the series! (Which was partly true). ...Still....I wish the series allowed landing parties to beam down with back packs and gear since it looked cool in the comics. Always thought the chamber styled transporter would have looked at home on Archers Enterprise too.

One of the biggest things I recall of the time was I was the only Trek fan in our small rural school...except for one teacher and a couple high school kids who kept signing out Spock must Die! from the school library! It was kind of an honor to be the only guy holding the torch back then. In the eighties everybody was a "fan"....but (with apologies to Barbara Mandrel) "I was a Trekkie, when Trek wasnt cool!" (kinda like now)

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Anyone else remember all the hype of the planned Paramount Channel launching with a new Trek series?

I do remember that. I remember being on summer vacation and a local newspaper's tv listings had an article trying to explain a series with no Spock but a new bald crew woman.

I also remember being about 4 years old and seeing an ad for reruns of Star Trek where the ad was basically a minute clip from "Who Mourns for Adonais." The episode where they are captured by Apollo. I asked my mom what it was and she told me that I was too young to watch it. That was in 1971 or early '72. A year later, I was watching the cartoon on NBC and by '75 I got my first Kirk Mego. I was thrilled when I got him and had many adventures before I ever got anyone else. I took the plastic container from a Swiss Miss pudding cup and cleaned it out and turned it into a captain's chair for him.

Back then it was a thrill because the "old school" special effects were top of the line, the reruns were new to me and if, for example, McCoy died in "Shore Leave," you didn't know if it was a plot twist or if they guy really was out of the show.

[HardyGirl]

Yep, I definitely remember. Reruns came on Saturdays and Sundays at 6pm. I didn't watch the cartoon in its original run, but when I came here to Oakland to visit my brother in '77, it was on in the afternoon, before my mom would take me to the park. There was a big flying saucer play structure there, and all us kids would wanna play Star Trek and we'd argue about who would play Capt. Kirk! I remember right before we moved to CA and all the TVs in the house were broken but the one in my parents' room, I had to be really quiet and watch Trek while my parents were taking a nap. And yes, I remember all those cool Star Trek Mego ads on during the cartoons after school.

[HardyGirl]

Man, those were the days .....

If you wanted to "own" your own Star Trek episode you have to record it of the TV with a tape recorder live

I didn't do that w/ Trek, but I did it when "The Wiz" finally made it to free TV when I was 13 or 14. But when I was a kid back in NYC, my older brother used to do that w/ "Good Times" and "All In The Family"! He used the tapes when he drove from NYC to CA to keep him company on the road!

[VintageMike]

I remember it well. Catching a Trek rerun always a special treat!

[fallensaviour]

I used to run home after school in kindergarten and watch it with my Dad...
He used to get me up on Saturdays at 4:30am so I could watch the animated trek...
I only had Kirk and Spock in 8" mego form back then but the adventures were awesome.
I remember going to the motion picture with my Dad and seeing it on the big screen it was awesome.
I better go call my Dad!!!

[bobws]

Winter 1975, coming home from school and sitting with my older brother who was recuperating from a accident in a snowmobile race( a real one) and watching reruns in the afternoons. i still hadn't seen them all at this point it was great fun! i like the cartoons as well, even though they had to put thier little joke endings every episode. after all it had rea; aliens as part of the crew. something all the live action shows wimped out on. Betazed's androids and New Klingons don't count! neither do, trills(who changed from their 1st appearance) bajorans,shapeshifters,ferengi(not in the fleet,just nog) and what ever Kes and neelix were and BORG DON"T COUNT!!! I don't care how hot 7of9 is! they never tried to expand and have more alien in uniform on a ship. i know the make-up is a nightmare but how about 1 human and all the rest aliens for a bridge crew? that would have been fun.