2017 Snowflake Challenge - Day Two
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm going to have to say that the show that had the biggest impact on my life had to be Star Trek. We're talking original series, as that was the only game in town when I was a wee!miz (TNG premiered while I was in college). I first watched them in reruns, and they drew me in for reasons I couldn't name back then, but totally see now. A huge group of incredibly diverse people working together to make the galaxy a better place? That's something that still appeals to me. Someone posted a question on Twitter recently - would you rather live in the Star Trek universe or Star Wars? While there are SW folk I'd love to meet (and who wouldn't want a light saber?) the choice was a no-brainer. Give me the Federation, please, all shiny and positive and let me go out and explore the universe.
I want the world where so many differences have already been worked out, where the world didn't destroy itself, where we figured it out before it was too late. I want to believe humanity can do that, that we're capable of more. Trek fortified that belief, an dkept me going when things got dark.
So yeah, adult me can see the draw of Star Trek. As a kid, it was because there wasn't much good space opera out there (I watched before Star Wars even existed, remember). I watched Buck Rogers, Space 1999, the original Battlestar Galactica (and Galactica 1980), but I LOVED Trek. And it's what got me into fandom. I read the books and magazines, went to the movies (and sobbed so many times in theaters at the end of ST2). I went to cons. And finally, I found the fanfic. In zine form, because again, I've been a fan for a Long Time. But it introduced me to a different side of fandom, one I've come to hold near and dear to my heart.
So yeah, that's what Star Trek did for me. And I'm forever grateful.
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I'm going to have to say that the show that had the biggest impact on my life had to be Star Trek. We're talking original series, as that was the only game in town when I was a wee!miz (TNG premiered while I was in college). I first watched them in reruns, and they drew me in for reasons I couldn't name back then, but totally see now. A huge group of incredibly diverse people working together to make the galaxy a better place? That's something that still appeals to me. Someone posted a question on Twitter recently - would you rather live in the Star Trek universe or Star Wars? While there are SW folk I'd love to meet (and who wouldn't want a light saber?) the choice was a no-brainer. Give me the Federation, please, all shiny and positive and let me go out and explore the universe.
I want the world where so many differences have already been worked out, where the world didn't destroy itself, where we figured it out before it was too late. I want to believe humanity can do that, that we're capable of more. Trek fortified that belief, an dkept me going when things got dark.
So yeah, adult me can see the draw of Star Trek. As a kid, it was because there wasn't much good space opera out there (I watched before Star Wars even existed, remember). I watched Buck Rogers, Space 1999, the original Battlestar Galactica (and Galactica 1980), but I LOVED Trek. And it's what got me into fandom. I read the books and magazines, went to the movies (and sobbed so many times in theaters at the end of ST2). I went to cons. And finally, I found the fanfic. In zine form, because again, I've been a fan for a Long Time. But it introduced me to a different side of fandom, one I've come to hold near and dear to my heart.
So yeah, that's what Star Trek did for me. And I'm forever grateful.
This entry was originally posted at http://mizface.dreamwidth.org/97649.html where there are
comments.