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5. "RE: Star Trek 50th!"
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   I don't remember how old I was when I first encountered Star Trek, but it was young enough that I spent at least a year thinking that it and Star Wars were supposed to be in the same setting, and spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how on Earth that could possibly work. Since I think it was the first Star Trek movie that finally sorted that out for me, that dates the matter to sometime before 1980, so I would've been quite young indeed.

What I do remember is how and when I used to watch the show. In the early 1980s, when I was in elementary school, reruns of the original Star Trek ran on weekday afternoons on WVII (Channel 7—get it?), the ABC station in Bangor. I don't remember exactly what time slot it was in, but it was on after the cartoons on the cable station from Chicago (WGN, back when the cable channel was still a national feed for the local one), so probably 5 o'clock. Basically, I'd come home from school (which got out at 3:15) and watch the cartoons on Channel 9, unless they were pre-empted by a Cubs game (the Cubs played home games exclusively in daylight back then, as Wrigley Field didn't get lights until 1988), then switch to Channel 7 for Star Trek, and that was my TV sorted for the day.

Wow. Lot of parentheticals in that paragraph. Anyway, onward. I also recall clearly where I watched it: in my parents' bedroom, because they had a color set in there and my own was black-and-white, and for some reason I didn't like to watch it in the living room. Mind you, it was an ancient color set, a Philco-Ford, the kind that had COLOR and TINT knobs and needed them, because the colors would go spontaneously out of whack on a regular basis. I didn't realize for years that the engineering crewmen's uniform shirts weren't dark brown.

(As an aside, I've since learned that the Philco-Ford branding dates that TV to around 1966, so it could be argued that I was thus experiencing the show as those who watched it when it first aired experienced it. :)

I have often thought that one of the keys to the original Star Trek's enduring appeal among children is that the costumes are easy and inexpensive to approximate. If you were canny enough about it, even at an age where you weren't buying your own clothes on solo expeditions, you could put together a passable Starfleet officer's uniform without your parents realizing what you were up to, which is why I had that mustard-colored velour shirt in grade school...

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