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Sci-Fi childhood!
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sorceror asked me to talk about science fiction! tethys123 asked me to talk about something from my childhood! Well, happily for me, these combine very nicely :)
I have been a trekkie since a young age, and this was my introduction to the sci-fi genre. I remember watching episodes of Star Trek with my mom and my sister on Sunday afternoons... and some other later times as well... I know that the episode with the ray-like creatures that fell from the ceiling always freaked me the hell out and I had trouble staying in the room when it was on. I have a distinct-for-me memory of frsking out and having to leave the room one evening when it was on, but mostly I remember watching stuff in the afternoons, so I'm not sure what to believe there, self. I referred to them as the Ceiling Pancakes. they weren't even the main threat of the episode as I recall, more of a random encounter.longpig and I used to refer to the aliens from the Pike episode as the "Bum-heads" or "Bum head aliens". That wasn't our favourites - I think the plot was a little too adult or complicated, maybe, to hold our interest.
Watching the Trouble with Tribbles is a nostalgic feeling for me - it brings a sense of that environment, even if my memories of the context are kind of fuzzy. My mother made us stuffed tribbles to play with, because we were such big (little) fans. They were basically balls of stuffed fake fur, but we loved them. I remember a black soft one and a greyish-pinkish one with longer coarse fur.
My mother used to read a lot of Science Fiction too, and we picked up the habit from her. I would read her Star Trek novels, and eventually we started buying our own when TNG came out. We were in Junior High then - it was sort of a family thing though, and this is telling for how poor my memories is when it comes to my youth, I honestly can't remember if it started before or after the divorce, or what happened afterwards if it didn't. I know Longpig would record all the episodes on VHS, and we watched them religiously when they aired while we could. remember that happening at dad's place, a: that was our childhood home and b: the show did air for 7 years....
Anyway - I came by my interest in science fiction honestly, and I will always have a deep abiding love of Star Trek. I think it was pretty formative in the sense that the show was always about people and culture and exploration rather than focused on technology and science. Technology was a backdrop a lot of the time. And that's a lot of what I like in science fiction too - the speculative stuff and the cultural explorations rather than hard science and technological extrapolation. I do like that stuff, it definitely has its place, but it is not my main interest.
sorceror asked me to talk about science fiction! tethys123 asked me to talk about something from my childhood! Well, happily for me, these combine very nicely :)I have been a trekkie since a young age, and this was my introduction to the sci-fi genre. I remember watching episodes of Star Trek with my mom and my sister on Sunday afternoons... and some other later times as well... I know that the episode with the ray-like creatures that fell from the ceiling always freaked me the hell out and I had trouble staying in the room when it was on. I have a distinct-for-me memory of frsking out and having to leave the room one evening when it was on, but mostly I remember watching stuff in the afternoons, so I'm not sure what to believe there, self. I referred to them as the Ceiling Pancakes. they weren't even the main threat of the episode as I recall, more of a random encounter.
longpig and I used to refer to the aliens from the Pike episode as the "Bum-heads" or "Bum head aliens". That wasn't our favourites - I think the plot was a little too adult or complicated, maybe, to hold our interest. Watching the Trouble with Tribbles is a nostalgic feeling for me - it brings a sense of that environment, even if my memories of the context are kind of fuzzy. My mother made us stuffed tribbles to play with, because we were such big (little) fans. They were basically balls of stuffed fake fur, but we loved them. I remember a black soft one and a greyish-pinkish one with longer coarse fur.
My mother used to read a lot of Science Fiction too, and we picked up the habit from her. I would read her Star Trek novels, and eventually we started buying our own when TNG came out. We were in Junior High then - it was sort of a family thing though, and this is telling for how poor my memories is when it comes to my youth, I honestly can't remember if it started before or after the divorce, or what happened afterwards if it didn't. I know Longpig would record all the episodes on VHS, and we watched them religiously when they aired while we could. remember that happening at dad's place, a: that was our childhood home and b: the show did air for 7 years....
Anyway - I came by my interest in science fiction honestly, and I will always have a deep abiding love of Star Trek. I think it was pretty formative in the sense that the show was always about people and culture and exploration rather than focused on technology and science. Technology was a backdrop a lot of the time. And that's a lot of what I like in science fiction too - the speculative stuff and the cultural explorations rather than hard science and technological extrapolation. I do like that stuff, it definitely has its place, but it is not my main interest.