Tng was mine. Never had to hide it. No cable or satellite so watched it on OTA tv. Think on upn forgot.

I've been watching my whole life. Like my mother literally sat down with me in her womb watching TOS because she wanted me to absorb it somehow lol.

Once I got to school in the mid-late 90s, no one really cared about it one way or the other, the popular children's media was of course Pokemon, but I did make a teacher cry really hard (like he had to go outside and sounded like he was going to throw up?) once by saying Uhura was a role model to me when I was in Year 3...? (he was a probably late 30s early 40s Australian white man. I don't know.) I remember having the tiniest baby crush on Ensign Kim even before I knew what crushes were.

I remember trying to get friends to watch Enterprise in middle school but they were never really interested. They weren't against it, and would casually watch eps of TNG/VOY that were on if they were over at my house for dinner as they had repeat eps always on around then, they just largely preferred reality TV. Luckily this was the advent of the internet so I could just find people to talk about it online. This meant finding a website where people wrote their own episodes of Voyager! (It was fetish fanfic where Seven and Janeway made aliens drink their piss and shit. I was a very innocent 12yo who still played with dolls. Quite traumatic.)

For me it was the original series reruns and Gold Key comics.

You're not born a Trekkie. You become one.

It was fine. A lot of my friends were Trekkies, so we'd talk about it a lot.

I was too little to remember watching TOS when it originally aired, but I grew up watching it in syndication a lot. The success of Star Wars made Hollywood realize that sci-fi can make money, which let to the movies, all of which I saw in theaters.

I was in college when TNG came out, and after some initial skepticism (A bald captain? This android is no Spock!), it became the only television show I ever regularly watched, and Star Trek as a whole became important to me in terms of the kind of person I wanted to be.

I dropped off of watching and missed the last two seasons of TNG both because they moved it to an inconvenient time and because of academic demands at school. I later went back and watched everything I missed in release order and became a fan of DS9, VOY and ENT. I’ve watched all of the new stuff and await Academy!

I was 5 when the original series aired and I watched it every week... If I could wrangle the TV from my mom, who wanted to watch 'Bewitched'. My friends thought Trek was silly, so I didn't talk to them about it.

I was a closet Trekkie until I was an adult. I played baseball my whole childhood through high school and was considered a “jock”. You def wouldn’t think I was a Trekkie by looking at me or my friends. My dad took me to see undiscovered country in the theatre randomly the day it was released. He watched a few episodes of TOS as a kid but that was it. It was so random of him to do that. After that I was hooked and DS9 locked me in for life. It is one of my most fondest memories with my Dad. I miss him greatly.

In fifth grade, I talked about Trek so much that the whole class insisted I give up mentioning it for Lent. (Catholic school.) I reluctantly complied. The literature teacher's husband must've heard this because he sent me his VHS of First Contact with a note telling me he'd be happy to chat during any liturgical season.

The adults were encouraging. My science/ computer teacher also had me make my first-ever PowerPoint on the subject of which movie is the best one, and helped me source audio clips and screenshots for it (not as easy in 2002 as it is today!) I thought of her when I grew up and was giving an actual conference presentation on Star Trek's influence on the English language to a bunch of language teachers. As I carefully assembled my slides for it, I thought, "made it, Miss Lambert!"

When I started watching, I didn't have an email address, but my dad had email at work. When I didn't understand how Spock could lie in "The Enterprise Incident," he let me write down my question, went to work, and emailed his friend Michelle, who was a bigger trekkie than him. Then he printed out her answer for me to read at home.

Use to watch TNG with my Dad when it was on. Tried to get into the other Treks but never really like them because I loved Patrick Stewart, Q and the Borg. Those were what drew me in. I had such a crush of Captain Picard. 🤣 I remember in elementary school we had to make phantom puppets so I made mine into a Borg that looked like Locutus and I told my art teacher they were the King of the Borg and I don’t remember what name I gave them but they were the leader and other such nonsense. This was way before the movies came out. That’s when I learned my art teacher was also a Star Trek fan. She really loved me, I even got into a special art program over the summer thanks to her. After that I sort of fell away from Star Trek after Enterprise didn’t really live up to the hype. Despite having Borg in it I didn’t really like Voyager so I just quietly left the fandom in my teens and 20s. Star Wars got rereleased and my Dad and I bonded over that and then I discovered Sailor Moon and Star Trek fell by the wayside. I never had friends that were into the same stuff I was so never really had a chance to bond with anyone.

I didn’t rediscover it all till years later with Netflix and the reboot of the series on film. I did one of those binges of the entire franchise in chronological order. All the series and movies took me weeks! But it was a blast. Found a new respect for the series. Still love TNG but also adore DS9 too. Still don’t care for Voyager. 😅

PBS for me! TNG and Voyager with a healthy dose of red dwarf to round off my love of space.

Didn’t get to share it with family or friends but the internet eventually set me free.

I'm very lucky.

I got to watch TOS in its original run, sitting in my dad's lap at the age of five, and grew up watching it and TAS in syndication reruns for, like, forever.

We watched TNG, and DS9, and VOY, and ENT.

I've watched every movie (except the Section 31 movie, I haven't gotten around to that one yet), and PIC, DIS, ST:NW, and Prodigy.

But when I was a kid, you could watch reruns of Star Trek all the time.

I don't remember there being the "geek" label for "trekkies" at that time, either. But outsiders called us "trekkies", we were "trekkers", and that difference somehow meant something.

I didn't meet a real "Star Trek geek" until college in '86. He actually went by Spock.

If you ever saw the cartoon "Undergrads" on MTV in 2001? Picture Gimpy. Gimpy could have been modeled off of Spock.

Guy was odd, but I loved him.

Watching Star Trek was a bonding activity between me and my dad. My introduction was OS reruns. We got really excited when TNG came out. I didn't have any friends to talk about it with, so it was just me and my dad Trekking together.

When I got married, my husband and I watched Voyager together. It was the first time that I watched Star Trek with anyone other than my dad. It was a surreal experience.

My mom introduced to Star Trek in 2006 when I was 6 with TOS on DVD. It became a primary part of my personality very quickly. I absolutely loved it. I watched the movies, TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT when they first came out on Netflix.

Becoming a Trekkie at a time when the franchise was basically dead besides 3 movies that no one liked was not fun. My friends did not know what it was or didn’t care. All they did was play video games like call of duty and modern warfare which I was not allowed to play.

When the new stuff came out I didn’t have anyone to talk about it with because irl my mom refuse to criticize any of it and the discourse on the internet until very recently was not balanced at all. In some parts of the internet criticizing it at all got you lumped in with the idiots who obviously just didn’t like the diversity in race and sexual orientation of the cast. And then you were forced to go to a part of the internet that was nothing but hatred for the new stuff which was not the way I felt either.

No one I knew except for me had cbs all access or even heard of it so it’s not like I could get my friends to watch.

By the time I was in college all the big shows were 6-8 episodes that dropped every 18-24 months so getting someone to even sit through even less than 100 episodes of something was just not happening.

When my mom was in college she remembers watching the first season of TNG on the one 13” antenna TV they had on her floor with about 2 dozen friends. When the first season of Picard came out I watched it alone in my dorm room laptop.

If not for covid forcing me return home and reconnect with the person who is now my husband I would still not have anyone to talk to about Star Trek. He had to watch Darmok for a communications class in college and after that he wanted to watch it all with me. Without him I’d still have no one to share it with.

I’m in the UK and grew up in the 90’s. Loved all of it.

Star Trek seemed universally accepted/well liked in school and I was open to discuss it because it seemed like everyone watched it. Was never called a nerd/geek for watching it.

5 days a week channel 11. Over time your brain notices that sometimes the credits are blue. Then you notice sometimes the enterprise flies at a curve from the middle. Then you buy books like Spock Must Die. Then one day you’re in Atlantic City is showing a Star Trek cartoon you didn’t know even existed! Then someone makes TMP and you get that wonderful five minute fly-around of the Enterprise! You then spend the next five decades explaining that scene to millennials.

I need to grt back to this one after Ive finished the braai for the family

TOS

Only my brother and I discussed it bc we watched it together. No one else I knew did.

I was in first grade in the early 70s. A babysitter watched ‘Let That Be Your Last Battlefield’. It’s not considered a good TOS episode. There’s no way I understood the symbolism in that episode, but I loved it. I have to give my parents credit that they figured out what show I was talking about and when it would be on next.

My dad became a fan as well and still watches TOS reruns at age 87.

80s. TOS reruns every afternoon after school (channel 6, 4pm). I recorded every episode on the VCR until I had them all.

I didn’t hide it. I didn’t trumpet it. It just was. We were a sort of odd, minority fringe compared to Star Wars fans. We still are.

I got my start as a little kid with Wrath of Khan, so films to start. Then TNG when I was 10.

TOS reruns after school and vhs of 1,2,3

I was 4 years old in 1984 when my mom introduced me to Star Trek (The Original Series). I was instantly smitten. It would only be a few years later that TNG would premiere, and my lifelong love of Star Trek would be firmly established.

I remember my mom and I watching the countdown promos every day: "In 7 days, the 24th century begins!"

We tuned in for Encounter at Farpoint and were both mesmerized. I know some people laugh at the overacting and the uneven writing and everything, but for my mom and myself, it was a fantastic adventure into a new world of stories.

We never missed an episode, even when I was supposed to be going to bed for school the next day. My mom would let me stay up for Star Trek.

In middle school, TNG was coming to an end as the last season had been announced, and I was hoping for more seasons. I had two best friends, and they were both Trekkies like myself. We used to exchange "Starfleet Communiques" in the hallway between classes (little slips of paper with mission directives on them and whatever gossip we had to add about the teachers or maybe a bully we saw so we could avoid them).

I remember in high school watching episodes of TNG on our little black and white TV in the kitchen, volume all the way down because everyone else was asleep. I didn't know what Worf was saying, but I still got to watch him get thrown over the tactical balustrade.

I enjoyed DS9 and VOY during the final years of high school, but took a break from Trek for a while during ENT.

I have very fond memories of loving Star Trek as a child. My mom was there with me the whole way. She never really got into the later series, but we could always pop in "Encounter at Farpoint" on DVD and watch it together.

I never really bothered hiding that I was a Star Trek fan. Figured it wouldn't matter - I was kind of a social outcast anyway. DS9 was pretty much my introduction to Star Trek because I got turned off by one of the worst TNG episodes in existence which just happened to be the very first Star Trek episode I ever saw. (It was that one where they have to get rid of an infection in Riker's brain by making him relive his bad memories, if you're wondering.)

Born in 1980. Watched TNG, DS9, VGR, and ENT as they originally aired. Star Trek was, for me, a reassuring and optimistic thing in a world that was (and is) often anything but reassuring and optimistic. Meeting a fellow Trekker in the wild was always an unexpected joy.

TNG started airing when I was 5. I remember seeing the two parter Best of Both Worlds when I was 8 and got hooked on it. I tried watching DS9 when it first came on but couldnt get into it. I have watched DS9 since then but its not my first choice. I did get hooked on Voyager immediately when it came out. To this day I still love to sit and watch TNG and Voyager. I even got my brother-in-law to do a rewatch of Voyager.

I started watching it as reruns after school in the late 70’s. Every 6 months or so they’d stop showing it and switch to Gilligans Island or the Brady Bunch and I would be devastated.

It became something that people knew about, or didn’t. In elementary school it was how I made friends. Some teachers would refer to it now and then, which blew my mind. I remember the first movie being announced and that was one of the happiest days I had experienced at that point. I went to see movies I didn’t like just to see the trailer many times.

Oddly I was lucky because I went to an extremely small school. Like, less than 150 kids small. If you made enemies with one in your grade and their five friends didn't like you, well, that was like 30% or more of your class. So we found ways to get along. None of my friends were into trek. But I never got made fun of for it.

I was born in 84 and started watching TNG with my parents as a little kid. I don't recall anyone I went to elementary school with except for one or two people ever acknowledging that Star Trek was a thing.

When I became a bigger fan in high school I knew some fellow Trekkies, but overall it wasn't something I advertised. Nerd culture wasn't mainstream yet and I advertised how uncool I was well enough without adding fuel to the fire. To this day my interest in Star Trek is mainly private unless I talk about it online, with the exception of my best friend who is a big fan as well. My other friends are neutral or disinterested when it comes to Trek but that's fair - I don't like all of the things they like. Most of my friends were into Pokemon and that never clicked for me.

I was 9 when TOS premiered and it was required viewing because my mom was one of the original nerds who watched Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and collected comic books (she even had Action Comics #1 but my grandmother threw away her comics when my mom went to boarding school). My mom had a gorgeous voice and sang along to the theme song in the first season. When they added the vocals in the second season we would joke that they had secretly recorded her.

I was 10 in 75 - growing up no one really gave you any crap for liking Star Trek, but we weren't dressing up and being weird about it. You'd play Star Trek at times - allways a disagreement on who plays Kirk or Spock. Those kind of things. But over all was chilled. Exposure to Start Trek was the TOS reruns, Animated series Books and Gold Key comics, Toys and such like Megos. There was no Internet, VCRs. You read about the series in Magazines - but it was about the series, no spoilers. Star Wars changed things as then you had to pick a 'camp' to align with - but mostly cause it was new and exciting. it was good time in the 70s before Star Wars made things diffrent.

My parents were both fans since TOS and also watched any other Star Trek show that came out later up until and including Enterprise. My mom passed away shortly before Discovery released and I am not sure if my dad ever watched any Star Trek content after Beyond. I am not even sure he is aware it exists, even my brother and I tell him about it. He is not the youngest anymore and doesn't have any streaming services. He mostly watches shows from the 60's to 80's on DVD or TV these days.

Anyway, now to me. So I grew up with Star Trek. Watching TNG from my mom's lab is literally one of my earliest memories. I never hid my love for Star Trek, among others things I was a fan of (like Godzilla, Lord of the Rings and many more franchises) but I feel Star Wars fans were a lot more common in my generation and those that followed. To many of my friends Star Trek was TOS, a show their parents watched when they were younger. Nothing that ever held their interest.

I think I had one friend in school who liked the TOS movies, but had never seen a single episode of the show and knew nothing of TNG onwards, other than it existed. Another friend shared my love for TNG but he never seemed to pick up on its values (in other words, he became pretty right wing over time, to the point at which I no longer talk to him, we just disagree too much).

Other than that, I can really count the people I met that like Star Trek even remotely as much as me on one hand. I also never really got anyone into it, with one major exception. So my wife, then girlfriend, only knew the first two Abrahams films. She had never seen or heard of Star Trek passed those. I showed her TNG on our first date, knowing she really loves robots. I tried to draw her attention to Data, whom she liked, but alas the first episode of TNG is really a snooze fest. I knew it was make it or break it now. So on the next day I skipped to The Measure of a Man. Am I glad I did, because she was hooked then. Since then we have watched all of TNG, all of DS9, all of ENT, most of TOS and VOY. We also checked out Discovery and Lower Decks together. So by all means, I think I converted her to be a Trekkie.

I'm in Canada. Star Trek was known at a nerd-ish show here too, but I didn't GAF. People already thought I was smart (I'm average), so it wasn't really a stretch. I also had nice friends and hung out open minded people, so they made me feel safe to like what I like. I didn't really feel threatened over it. By grade 12 I was 6"3 and had a black belt, so even the bullies were leaving me alone. I also had a friend who liked it, and my dad was a fan as well.

But honestly, TNG, VOY, and DS9 became part of who I was. It expanded my vocabulary. It taught me the virtue of doing the right thing and paying the costs for it. It taught me that importance of integrity, hard work, and sacrifice. But most of all it taught me how important the truth was, how being honest and being yourself was integral to good character.

I was a nerdy kid very into sci fi and not into sports or most popular action movies. I started watching TOS reruns around 12 as Star Trek wasn't watchable in my country on open TV and was around that time they put it on cable. 

Around that time the channel that pass it also started passing TNG and other sci-fi shows on saturdays afternoons including 80s Twilight Zone and Universal monster movies. I also watched Babylon 5 and Farscape in other channels. I watched DS9 and VOY as they aired.

The TOS movies were aired on national TV one by one thus I watch them there. Generations and First Contact I watch them on cable and watched Insurrection and Nemesis in theaters. 

Around 20 thanks to Internet I met other ST fans. We we're like 6 and had a "club" but rarely have live activities. Nowadays thanks to the Internet have a larger group of fellow enthusiasts.

As a 90s kid, I was an openly proud Trekkie, which made me a dweeb among my classmates. Despite that, I managed to get some accolades in high school like class office.

College and beyond have been much better since nerd stuff became more mainstream and Trekkies are more out and about in the world at places like comic conventions.

I began watching it in 1975 (I was 12.) I got exposed to it in religion class; I attended Catholic grade school and the priest who taught religion class opened it up at the end to questions about anything. Since Star Trek was all the rage invariably some kid asked about alien life on other planets which automatically lead to Star Trek. So, Catholic religion class was where I first learned about Spock and his T-Negative blood type.

Then I started by reading the Blish books, then found the TV series. I have very dim memories of watching TOS during it's network run (I was 3 when it debuted and 6 when it was cancelled and I kept getting it confused with Lost in Space.)

Star Trek never got me ostracized in class; there were plenty of other reasons for kids to do that. But I did have a solid corps of buds who'd discuss Trek with me, (along with the original Battlestar Galactica/Buck Rogers.)

It was TNG & the movies for me, my bro would introduce me, used to walk around the schoolyard thinking about the cool shows like Dominion War & First Contact.