Star Trek Trivia

[davedoty]

Star Trek debuted in 1966.  It's 2008.  That makes the mid-point: 1987, the year TNG debuted.

TNG is now the halfway mark of Trek history.

Yes, you are old.  Go back to your lives now.

P.S.  This year's high-school Sophomores were born the year the X-Files debuted.

[Sandikal]

Yes, I am old.  Star Trek: The Next Generation is the show I used to turn my daughter into a science fiction geek.  She wanted to be Tasha Yar for Halloween when she was 7 (or was it .  I made her a Star Fleet uniform and she got her hair cut really short like Tasha's.  For years, she wanted to go to Star Fleet Academy and wouldn't accept that it wasn't real.  She ended up getting a bachelor of science degree in Geophysics and Space Physics and teaches high school Earth science and physics.

Star Trek was the best.

[deflective]

what changed her mind from security to the sciences? was it the blue uniforms?
i bet it was pretty blue uniforms. girls like clothes. (especially the star trek science geeks =P good job with the geekification)

[Sandikal]

You have to remember that Tasha Yar left early on in the run of the show.  That meant that the only female role models left were Beverly Crusher and Deanna Troi.  If I remember correctly, both had blue uniforms.

Actually, my daughter's brain was always more suited for math and science than for anything else.

[Heradel]

I got started with TOS — SciFi had a two-hour block of it about the time I got home from late elementary/middle school, so I'd watch it and then go do homework. So while not knocking the Red/Blue/Yellow shirts, I know the Actual color is green.

[Listener]

Between the ages of five and eight, Channel 6 in south Florida had TOS on at 5pm. I would watch it and, halfway through, my dad would come home, change, and we'd finish the show before dinner. Oh, how I wanted to be on the Enterprise.

My first ST film in theaters was IV -- I guess I wasn't old enough to see III.

I used to run Star Trek Trivia on the Realm of Legends BBS.

Before the official videotapes came out of TNG episodes, I used to design the boxes based on what I saw at Michele's Video, the local video store franchise.

Finally... when I got TiVo for the first time, we taped every TNG episode because TNG is my wife's favorite of all the series. At the same time, I realized that Ron Jones, composer for Family Guy, also did a LOT of the music for TNG. In fact, for the first two seasons, it was almost always either Jones or McCarthy. So my wife and I would play a game, trying to figure out who did the music. Ron Jones's first-season stuff is pretty distinctive -- in "When the Bough Breaks", the scene where the girl is playing music, the simple melody line is indicative of Jones's work, though he got much more complex, as evinced by "The Best of Both Worlds".

Wow. I'm a true ST dork, huh.