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Space...the final frontier...
I was there at the dawn of the...oh, wait, guess I shouldn't use that one.
But I was. Saw the first episode on premiere night. That was back in the days when you watched it or had to wait for summer reruns.
I liked it. I watched it each week. And even when it went off the air it went into reruns right away. Then tie-in books started coming out, and I'm first and always primarily a reader. As I recall, first came the James Blish adaptations and then new stories. I think the first one ever was also by James Blish, "Spock Must Die". Surprise! There was a transporter accident!
But...and this has a bearing on my B5 fandom...when reading those James Blish adaptations of the episodes into short stories, sometimes there were differences! Somewhere I found out that he wrote using episode scripts and that piqued my interest. Not knowing anything much about how TV was made, I wondered why.
Fast forward a number of years to Babylon 5. Watched from the first episode again (but missed 'The Gathering') and discovered B5 online about 20 minutes after getting my first computer. And then...along came Ebay! And fun things started appearing every once in a while. Like Babylon 5 scripts!! And thus, a collector was born - and it's all Star Trek's fault!
Slightly more seriously, I've always been drawn to fiction that can make me think, can make me laugh and can make me feel and Trek at its best accomplished that. I also discovered the magic of the Sci-Fi convention when I attended an early Trek con that had almost all of the actors attending . I think that was in 1975 or '76.
So yeah, even though B5 is my greatest love, Star Trek did get me started and played a major role in my fan life.
LLAP, Star Trek!
Jan
I was there at the dawn of the...oh, wait, guess I shouldn't use that one.
But I was. Saw the first episode on premiere night. That was back in the days when you watched it or had to wait for summer reruns. I liked it. I watched it each week. And even when it went off the air it went into reruns right away. Then tie-in books started coming out, and I'm first and always primarily a reader. As I recall, first came the James Blish adaptations and then new stories. I think the first one ever was also by James Blish, "Spock Must Die". Surprise! There was a transporter accident!
But...and this has a bearing on my B5 fandom...when reading those James Blish adaptations of the episodes into short stories, sometimes there were differences! Somewhere I found out that he wrote using episode scripts and that piqued my interest. Not knowing anything much about how TV was made, I wondered why.
Fast forward a number of years to Babylon 5. Watched from the first episode again (but missed 'The Gathering') and discovered B5 online about 20 minutes after getting my first computer. And then...along came Ebay! And fun things started appearing every once in a while. Like Babylon 5 scripts!! And thus, a collector was born - and it's all Star Trek's fault!
Slightly more seriously, I've always been drawn to fiction that can make me think, can make me laugh and can make me feel and Trek at its best accomplished that. I also discovered the magic of the Sci-Fi convention when I attended an early Trek con that had almost all of the actors attending . I think that was in 1975 or '76.
So yeah, even though B5 is my greatest love, Star Trek did get me started and played a major role in my fan life.
LLAP, Star Trek!
Jan
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