Introduction

A quick little introduction to this blog, just in case someone stumbles across it sometime.  It's just a personal journal recording my thoughts as I go through and slowly watch the original run of Star Trek.

My previous Star Trek experience is somewhat limited.  My parents were classic Trekkies, but I never saw much; they had grown out of it by the time I was old enough to be interested.  I've seen several of the movies: the original five I saw years ago, probably the early to mid 90s.  Later, I added Generations and First Contact to that list.  A few scattered episodes of Next Generation made their way into that, and I actually watched the pilot for Deep Space 9 (I want to say I saw it on a Saturday; maybe it was a repeat of the next week after it's original Sunday showing).

I have opinions on all of those, but I'll get to that later, maybe.

More recently, I saw Star Trek VI (with the Rifftrax treatment) and Star Trek (2009), and maybe two or three episodes of classic Trek on one of those odd-numbered, free-TV stations that shows old programming (but then they moved the time, I think earlier, making it overlap with WWE Smackdown, and so I missed out after that!), and I picked up a couple of those compilation DVDs that I may have watched an episode or two on.

My other experience is with pop culture and internet memes.  Picard facepalming, "KAAAAAAHN!" and Shatner's often-joked-about delivery, backstage drama with Shatner, and Takei's sudden, slightly obnoxious presence on the internet.

In short: I'm going into watching the original three seasons somewhat blind, and with no timetables.  As of this writing, I'm three episodes into it, and planning to do a blog each episode, both for prosperity and just to keep working those writing muscles.  Here goes!