I never had any confusion over where it stood in relation to other shows or franchises, that I can recall (or recall stories about - the same cant be said for my personal belief that I may or may not have been The Dukes of Hazzard. Apparently it was the only name I would give when I got lost in a supermarket or the mall one day in the early 80s)

I got into the novels around age eleven or so, when I discovered such things *existed*, and for quite a while I was reading one, sometimes two a day - I was a somewhat voracious consumer of media of all types.

We didn't have a channel that could get TNG when it premiered, I don't think, but we soon did. I think we may have actually got cable *solely* for TNG; everything else was just a bonus.

We definitely had it for DS9. I remember my mom recording the new episodes for me while I went on ski trips every Friday for a few months with my school. (we have a ski slope relatively nearby, because I live in southern BC, smack in a mountain valley)

I remember watching Voyager as it aired, and....honestly being pretty okay with it, a few hiccups notwithstanding.

Enterprise just made me angry.

I was....kinda confused and bored by The Motion Picture. LOVED Wrath of Khan. Search for Spock was great, but seeing the Enterprise die was like watching Optimus Prime die; it was a red hot poker through my SOUL.

I was enraptured by everything about Voyage Home, since I was old enough to follow what production news made it out into the few magazines I read then....I'm pretty sure it got some sort of writeup in at least one of the gaming magazines of the time; Nintendo Power, GamePro, Electronic Gaming Monthly...

My only recollections about Star Trek V at the time were 'naked fan dance Uhura' and 'Scotty banging his head on the bulkhead is hilarious'....

I'm pretty sure I REMEMBER Star Wars first, but Star Trek has always been SUCH a part of my life, it has always been by far the more interesting of the 'star' franchises (as least until Stargate SG-1, but you just can't argue with McGyver O'Neill. I was a HUGE McGyver fan back in the day, too)

Also, even the worst Trek is better than Phantom Menace. Yes, even Theshold.