#loidel

wow omG thank you so much!!

Alright so this is actually a story so here is a short version if you just want to read that: It was the reboot movies that got me into this. 

LONG VERSION

I grew up in a trekkie home. My parents have always been somewhere between your casual fans and really really into it fans ( they think cons and stuff are weird but they gave each other gifts of conversational klingon cassettes, the enterprise user's manual, the star trek encyclopedia, all of the ship christmas ornaments, etc etc etc). It's pretty much all I remember being on tv as a kid. Well. Other than sports. ...But that was it. 

You'd think with that I'd grow up to be a trekkie as well, right? Not really. And I'm not even sure WHY. Somewhere along the line I got the idea that star trek was weird and for weird people and it was weird that my parents liked it. (also if your parents like it, it HAS to be completely lame, right?) So I refused to like it.   I had also gotten it into my head that you could also only like either star trek OR star wars, and i liked star wars a LOT so clearly I had chosen my side there. ( My parents and I would get into arguments about which was better. I would defend star wars, my mom would say something about how I would be assimilated, and my dad would tell me "make trek, not war"  )

FAST FORWARD TO 2009: I hear about this new star trek movie that's coming out, roll my eyes a bit, and go to tell my dad that one of his weird star trek things is coming out. ...My dad and I kind of have communications issues? I was just trying to tell him that his thing was coming out, HE thought I was saying "DAD! Lets spend time together and watch this movie! :D " 

My dad and I don't spend that much time together and after he set up this thing and got us tickets and whatnot I just COULDN'T refuse despite how much I didn't want to see that movie. And I REALLY REALLY REALLY DIDN'T want to see it. At ALL. 

By the time that movie ended, I was shocked. I didn't walk out of there thinking it was the best movie ever, or anything like that. I just had one thought in my mind.

I HAVE TO WATCH THE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW. 

I mean, at this point I know that movie adaptations of things are really just a hint of a flavor of whatever the source material is, but MAN did I really like what I saw. And if I liked the movie adaptation, I was bound to just absolutely love the show! I had to watch it

And so I did! Might I just mention- that movie inspired me to watch the original series WITHOUT SUBTITLES (they weren't available then back when youtube had full tos episodes) and for hearing-impaired me who just doesn't watch things without subtitles (too bothersome) that was quite the thing. I was literally willing to struggle through the show I thought it was that good.