I’m old enough to have become a “Trekkie” when TOS was still airing new episodes. Back then, as the “illegitimate” child of a poor, single mother whose father insisted I bear his last name, then spent the remainder of my childhood denying that I was his offspring (no one in my family made much sense)... I loved the…

I’m old enough to have become a “Trekkie” when TOS was still airing new episodes. Back then, as the “illegitimate” child of a poor, single mother whose father insisted I bear his last name, then spent the remainder of my childhood denying that I was his offspring (no one in my family made much sense)... I loved the…

I just literally and unironically laughed out loud. Your dad’s a hoot.

I watched every episode with my mom, and after like a season and a half of Seven, my mom would say, “Why can’t they get her a normal uniform?”
My dad would also walk through the room and say, “Is Ten of Ten on?”

Totally off-topic: Am I the only one who sees Red on Orange Is The New Black, and imagines that it’s Janeway playing out another holonovel?

Thank you so much for this lovely essay.

As a 3 to 5 year old, I was barely conscious when Original Trek was first aired. Instead it had it's profound affect on me after it had gone into syndication in the 1970s. For me the gateway to Trek was actually the animated series between 1973 to 1974. I was 9 to 10 then but this brought me into watching endless…

I feel these feels.

And this is why Star Trek in all its television incarnations was so important to so many people, even when it was occasionally terrible.

Major Kira of DS9 was the best-written female character on any of the Treks, IMO (and I liked DS9 the least). 7 of 9, followed by T'Pol were the hottest. But Lexa Doig who played Andromeda on the other Roddenberry series "Andromeda" was pretty hot too!