This past weekend, my dad asked me for the latest Star Trek series. He recently found a channel that plays all the older Star Trek episodes every single night. He is getting all caught up on the things he missed or can't remember. He has watched all the movies, old and new. It only makes sense that he should watch the newest shows.
Ever since I can remember, my father has watched Star Trek. One of my earliest childhood memories is of my dad raising the tv volume to full blast as the opening credits played. We (my father, brothers and I) would pretend to conduct the orchestra. After the credits ended, our dad would send us back to the beds we left as it was 11 o'clock at night. No scolding, just "okay, time to go to bed". We would leave and he would go watch his episode. Of course, there were time we didn't need to go to bed when it came on. If a marathon was playing, that channel did not change. It has a hold on him even now. Just last evening, right as he was about to go for his evening walk, he came back in because he was about to miss Star Trek. He wasn't even outside two minutes.
Thanks to that, the younger siblings are getting the same exposure to sci-fi that I got as a kid. They sit down with Dad and watch all the episodes with fresh, eager eyes. I sit in the background, soaking in the nostalgia.
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