Happy Birthday Star Trek!

[johnmiic]

I was born March 19th, 2 days after Turnabout Intruder, Star Trek's last 3rd season episode aired on NBC, (3/17/69?). Can I still make it in as a first generation Trekkie?

I discovered the show in the early `70's, maybe age 4 when it aired weeknights for dinner-time in NY. My earliest recollection is a shot off the Enterprise flying away from the viewer in space from a red planet. Maybe in the episode or maybe in the credits. And I recall a White Castle Hambuger commercial where the AMT Enterprise was painted silver & is next to a WC space station. I think Shatner says, "400 hamburgers to go please." Then the model flew off into the dark of space.

[ctc]

>I thought it was new.

Me too! I always thought it was weird that everybody else in the house knew what was going to happen, and I didn't.

As a teen I was kinda shocked to find out how much of my childhood was actually recycled....

Don C.

[Bruce Banner]

Didn't fully get into Star Trek until later... I was always a Star Wars kid.
I remember watching it on TV (re-runs in the 70s), but it wasn't really until ST:TMP and Wrath of Khan that I really started to enjoy Trek, and then went back and watched all the original series re-runs and fully appreciated the show.

The Trek hardware has always intrigued me, particularly the ships.
Maybe having the Dinky Enterprise and Klingon cruiser as a kid had something to do with that.

[david_b]

I was born March 19th, 2 days after Turnabout Intruder, Star Trek's last 3rd season episode aired on NBC, (3/17/69?). Can I still make it in as a first generation Trekkie?

I discovered the show in the early `70's, maybe age 4 when it aired weeknights for dinner-time in NY. My earliest recollection is a shot off the Enterprise flying away from the viewer in space from a red planet. Maybe in the episode or maybe in the credits. And I recall a White Castle Hambuger commercial where the AMT Enterprise was painted silver & is next to a WC space station. I think Shatner says, "400 hamburgers to go please." Then the model flew off into the dark of space.

No, sorry, a 'first-generationer' is someone who watched them on NBC as first shown. I recall seeing it on TV then, but I was only 4-5yrs old (not really cognizant..), so I think of myself as a 'second-generationer' myself, because I didn't enjoy them until the reruns like most.

[Thor]

This one crept up on me!

[mego73]

What's amazing is that for a 45 year old show, most of the main cast is still around. Compare that to shows like Gilligan's Island and Bewitched.