When Annaleeshared her fib of how Star Trek changed her lifeon Wednesday , it paved the way for many other such recollection . Holster your snark phasers and see how Gene Rodenberry ’s creation affected life-time .
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Smeagol92055 : R.O.A.C.H. :
I can say that Ben Sisko change my life ; he was so dissimilar from either of the captains showcased before him .
Whereas Kirk treated his underlings like everlasting shit , and Picard … well , hell , the man could make you palpate unfit , like you let down your father or something , Sisko was an completely unlike beast . He was a father himself , and he treated all of his gang with respect and understanding , even when the people on the post tested his limits , he seldom lost his cool completely with someone .
He was far more diplomatical than anyone I had ever seen , and it molded me into a middling diplomatic person myself . These days I cogitate reasonably hard before speaking ( in the real world , of class , ) and I always endeavor to regain a elbow room out of a situation that will be mutually good for all parties involve .
Here ’s to you , Sisko .
ElimGarak :
I spent several year at alt.startrek.vs.starwars , and it shaped my outlook on spirit vastly . It taught me that some people are just too twine up in their own small worlds to count alternate linear perspective – and also serve me take things less seriously .
Furthermore , the tale inStar Trekare one of the few areas where you win by solve a job as an grownup , instead of punching and kicking . Too much sci - fi is direct at the low common denominator , and tries to capture the high school jock demographic .
angiek :
Star Trek ( specially TNG , DS9 and Voyager ) totally alter my life . I call up it did so because of how honest-to-god I was at the fourth dimension and that it was precisely what I needed at the time to evolve a irrefutable sense of ego .
It was later 1993 and I was 12 the first time I encountered Star Trek . It was a TNG novel dealing with Klingons and a subplot with Wesley Crusher . Being a geeky tyke I felt calmed by the idea that there were smart kids in the hereafter and that , in the Star Trek world , being geeky was n’t a bad thing . This is why , shitty writing for the character in most instalment aside , that character will always be my favourite . When I started watching DS9 and TNG on the little b&w set my mom had I just fell in love with the appearance . Here were people who were wise and adventurous and I expend a mountain of clip model my attitude found on what I learned from Star Trek . I , too , learned from Star Trek what I want my friendships and human relationship to be like in the real world . Also , the multicultural love fests ( in paying attention to actors and character backgrounds ) that were DS9 and , eventually , Voyager really made me happy and palpate that it was fine to search different than 95 % of my match . In the future , I think , life story would be good , and not so sucky as my real life was at the time . There were heroes , like Picard and Sisko and Janeway , who were good and wise and I desire to be just like them .
The casts became like a family to me , in a “ I know it ’s just a tv show and the doer do n’t know me in person ” variety of way of life . I still suffocate up momentarily when I attend a convention with an actor present who I ’ve never foregather before . Star Trek give me such a sense of self that it ’s hard not to be overwhelmed . Watching Star Trek back then sometimes mean more to me than being with my existent family .
jedikalos :
It was TOS for me , in 1966 when I was ten years erstwhile . My parents had divorce and the earth seemed strange and scary ( Vietnam on tv set , and the atomic warfare drill in school — they actually had us play in cover and glass shock for water , I kid you not , and taught us how to dodge down when the sirens wailed , and the polite right hand battle and all of it)—and Star Trek ease up my small self a existent hope and comfort that people could be dissimilar : intellectual and caring and yes , as you speak about , in a community of interests . The relationship between Kirk and Spock and McCoy charm me and in some style made me palpate near about my life . And Spock inspired me to embrace reason and logic with a true passion — not to mention the ideals of equality and tolerance which were just imprint on my young mind ( never to fade ) .
corvus.imbrifer :
But for Star Trek I would have grown up a happy , undefendable - minded , handsome , unwitting racist . I develop up in a pleasant , happy , liberal(ish ) enclave where there were certainly masses of colour , I just did n’t know them . So despite my parent best efforts , I must have figured that being pitch-dark ( or whatever ) did not make someone unequal , it was just something civilized the great unwashed did n’t notice . Not an outright hinderance , more like a birthmark or something . Dianne Carroll , Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte were popular on television , despite ( I must have recall ) the pocket-sized disadvantage that there were to be congratulated for overcoming .
Then came Uhura .
She was African ( no hyphen ) , she was manifestly competent ( arguably the most emotionally stable soul in flock ) , she was an ship’s officer respected by everyone ( the white boy stand out when she gave an order – happily so , see old ) , did n’t apologise , did n’t explicate , she was a pure exemplar of ‘ do the work . ’ Two special moments cohere in my straits : one where an alien in the physical body of Lincoln addressed her as ‘ a sorcerous negress ’ and I had to have that word explain to me . She responded with admirable blessing , and a comment about the major power of language that I transmit with me to this daylight .
Then of track there was the time Sulu , deliriously D’Artagnen , fence in sword in hand , came up to her declaring ‘ I ’ll protect you , middling maiden ! ’ to which she tartly replied : “ grim , neither . ” I had to have that explained to me , too .
Anyway . The message penetrated that not only was she exactly who she was , but no one on the go-ahead was politely brush off anything ( such as her race ) , the intact whimsey of ‘ sufferance ’ or ‘ allowance ’ would have stupefy them . ( One recalls the instalment with the two mate with black / whitened face paint . On occassion , The Message was writ quite large . ) Meanwhile , Spock ’s backwash was only an topic because he often made it one ( or the writer ’s did ) .
And over in the gender studies department , there were times when Ms Nichols was expected to say ‘ Captain , I ’m frightened , ’ and though her mouth say the words her eyes said ‘ You know , if it were me in the captain ’s chair instead of your horny butt , we would n’t be getting shoot down at by an armada of raging father ’ … Thus staking out a place in my tiny whitebread mind for cleaning woman in positions of authorization . Captain Janeway was a foresighted sentence coming .
Without Uhura , I would have been a subtle bigot , because I would n’t have thought I was one . “ I treat all masses as if they were equals ” , I would have said , not agnise that I was nonetheless thinking of women or non - white people as ‘ Other . ’ I give thanks Star Trek , and Ms Nichols , for give me a good talking to and a operose shake both directly and by example . It stuck .
yye00 :
Without a phantom of a doubtfulness , Star Trek had a Brobdingnagian shock on my life . I watched TNG as it aired in the 80 ’s , and I was six years old . Since then I know I need to be an engineer or a scientist . I was subsist in the middle east at the time and thing were quite uncut , needless to say , TNG made me stick with it , and I calibrate as an locomotive engineer and now I am a scientist . I still remember the starry dark I walked back home from watching Star Trek First Contact , opine to myself , warp drives are precisely what I want to do with my life . That take me to study numeric relativity and sure enough I ended up across the world forge and take as a scientist at a inquiry heart .
That being said , the moral questions , the sensory faculty of wonder and awe at the universe , the pursuit for cognition and truth , the philosophic questions the gang of the Enterprise tackled every week , it gave me hope of a better futurity , of a humanity where you are judged based upon your merits and shortcomings as an individual ( not if you have the “ force ” on your side ) . The Brobdingnagian universe stretch out further than our eyes can see in a million years just solicit to be explored and chart . All we had to do was lay the edifice occlusion in science and engineering , and perhaps one day , we might get there . In the interim , we will watch re - runs 🙂
Robert Carver :
Star Trek had a definite impact upon my life . I was an ADHD kid in a pocket-size rural school organization back in the mid-70 ’s . There was no diagnosis available at that time that would explain to my parent and teachers why I was such a overactive tiddler . So those feeling of estrangement weighed upon me when I key out Star Trek in re - runs Monday through Friday at 6 pm on a cable channel . I was immediately suck to these case and the macrocosm they inhabit where every mortal was of economic value . The bunch of the Starship Enterprise were wonderful use models for me as it was a show that celebrated the best aspects of humanity coupled with the geographic expedition of the Final Frontier . So I was assuage to find that even troubled tike like me had a lieu in the future .
The movies with the original cast were very gratifying as I was athirst for further adventures with these family phallus . I was 14 when I went to see The Wrath of Khan in June of 82 . The tale of how important the human relationship between Kirk , Spock and McCoy was appealed to me . They each possess aspects of behavior and thought that were made whole when they were together . Spock ’s destruction as he sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise unreasoningly gain me at such a primal grade that it took about an hour after the movie ended just to stop crying . The theme of friendship and loyalty come across with me as I internalized the note value espoused in the series and these movies .
I had been ill in gamey school and as clock time passed I sustain getting uncollectible but the doctors I saw were n’t capable to name me . I finally became so ill I was rush to the ER and then hospitalized . While I was waiting to find out what was wrong , I follow episode of TNG as often as possible . They were midway through the polar third time of year while I was in the infirmary . That helped keep me calm as I awaited the news show . I was in the end diagnosed with Crohn ’s Disease .
Since that diagnosis in 1990 I have had 4 gut resections , other surgeries , a multitude of invasive trial , hospital stays and legion complications . My constant comrade over the past 19 years has been the story of a better future on TNG , DS9 , Voyager and Enterprise . For that one hour each week I was channel away from my earthly problems into a world where so many of the things I value were explored in continuing voyage of each crew .
Star Trek has avail me battle my natural depression as I fight with Crohn ’s and my trouble in maintain relationships . Gene Roddenberry ’s vision of a secular , science and reason based Earth that station out explorers to seek out new life and new civilisation fires my resource and encourages me to do what I can in the here and now to lie the origination for that envisage Star Trek population . I have been a buff of this franchise for so long , now 25 twelvemonth , I can not remember a time in my life when Star Trek was n’t there .
Star Trek has evolved with the various incarnations and with the release of the Modern movie , it has made a quantum leap back into the national zeitgeist . Star Trek has become relevant again in our culture and the old school die - hard fans are no longer an peril species . Like any with child mythologic tarradiddle , Star Trek has been and will continue to be many thing to each devotee . For me , the boundless optimism that humanity will merge , advance and finally go out the cradle of Earth to explore a universe teaming with sentient life forms draw me a well mortal in the here and now . Rather than ruin our worldly concern , we will evolve to a higher grade of awareness and have a high purpose than the current fixation with material good and religious / cultural wars . The journey to get to that Utopian future I know we must do now .
So I can not ideate how different I would be if I had never discovered Star Trek . I would not have learned to appreciateInfinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations . I would n’t have learned that it does n’t matter what we look like , where we are from , how different we are to each other , it is the subject of our quality that is important . All we have is this one life so we intimately make the good of it while we can . “ To Boldly Go ” is n’t just about exploring outer space , it is about exploring ourselves . I just wish I could endure to see the humanity conceive of by Star Trek become realism . Now that would be my idea of heaven .
No cheap comment from me , for once . give thanks you , everyone , for share-out , and may the force be with you all . Wait , wrong enfranchisement .
( Okay , one cheap remark . I ca n’t go entirely cold turkey . )
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