Any of you remember this ( I know it is a techey (meaning touchy) subject with youngish boomers). We had one tv in the house, and my parents had a tiny b&wh. set in their bedroom. I begged and pleaded to watch this new show on the little tv in their room, and to my amazement, they consented! There were very few shows they let me watch back then - but I would watch "Laugh In" and Dick Cavette. For some reason, the sitcoms I grew up on and loved (still to this day) weren't all about these new venues.

Well, have to say- and I hope some of you can remember, share and laugh with this - the first show just was so amazing, and so different, and a treat for sure- but when those big-headed pulsing brain aliens came on, I was scared out of my sox. For weeks after (even though that was my treat, to watch that show on their little tv in the sanctuary of their quiet bedroom, a treat I really was appreciative of, it meant they viewed me as a real person that had other interests...) those aliens shook me up, made me dream and nightmare of them....but still had to go back and watch! I grew up with TV, coming home from school and watching the last of American Bandstand from Phila. and Dick would say "stay tuned for the Mouse" and then the Mousketeers...but Star Trek was something totally out of this world to me. Loved it, watched it and all it's clones, and the movies, and had one son that grew to love it (after the Star Wars invasion, which rocked me too!),even went to one fan fair for all that (thank GOODNESS I wasn't so far gone as to dress a character!). Anyway, seeing it is their 40th anniv. thinking there may be a lot of closet trekkies out there that would have a laugh or share- I've grown past it but I do try to watch some of it sometimes, especially the hallmark episodes. It takes a lot of courage to admit you are a trekkie at my age!! LOL there.....give me a shout out if you know from whence I speak!! Thanks