Stop making me feel old
nerdist.com! So scrolling through blog posts from yesterday I came across one about
Star Trek: The Next Generation and the cover photo was of Locutus.
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| ahhhhhhhhh! |
An image that that was burned into my young mind
FOREVER! I love Captain Picard and it was just awful to see
THAT. Then I read the first line of the
article "Twenty five years ago this week, Star Trek: The Next Generation unleashed the first cliffhanger in Star Trek history by leaving Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the hands of the Borg." What?!?!? There is no way that was
25 years ago! I can vividly remember sitting in my living room
GLUED to the screen watching the Season Finale and screaming in horror as Riker said
“Mr. Worf, fire...”.
My mom and I were both sitting there stunned as it ended...what...What...
WHAT!?!? I was
9 (yes, I said 9)...I think it scarred me. Obviously as a wee little one I am sure I moved on and enjoyed my summer but when the fall came around I sure was glued to my screen again hoping my fav Captain was saved somehow! You know before
DVR...so I actually had to be there when it aired
OR record it on a shady
VHS tape and hope the
VCR didn't mess up somehow.
Geez, I am ancient! Who else remembers the excitement of coming home to a
TAPED show only to rewind the tape and see nothing but
STATIC!
F**k you
VCR, you have made me miss
Seaquest for the last time!!!
Back to the article, I had no idea how
"groundbreaking" that cliffhanger was. I didn't realize
TNG wasn't really accepted as Star Trek until after that episode aired. Probably because I was
9...and because you know I couldn't just pop on the internet and jump in on a Fandom thread to get all the theories. I never had an issue with
TNG because I grew up with it. My dad grew up with
TOS and showed it to me, making me just as much of a fan at a fairly young age. So when
TNG came out I
LOVED it...yay new Star Trek!!!
I still can't believe it was
THAT long ago but I don't care. I love getting home from work and turning on
BBC America to watch 4 hours of
TNG reruns. I still love it and if I do have kids...I am
TOTALLY introducing them all my old Sci-Fi favs
*muahahahaha*.
