#and red dwarf

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I feel like the tiktok accounts on here fill a similarly ecological role as PBS showing british comedies at night

[kaelio]

There’s literally never been a time I wasn’t aware of Star Trek, because both of my parents like it a lot. They’re big sci-fi buffs; they have bookshelves and bookshelves of classic sci-fi. My mother actually did write and publish a few sci-fi stories before meeting my dad.

In fact, here’s my 6th grade book report of Larry Niven’s Ringworld (actually put it above for Tumblr formatting reasons) ^^^. Larry Niven wrote an episode of TAS that featured the Kzin (or, it’s based on the short story with the Thrint stasis box).

(I should have done Caves of Steel though, because I liked it better!)

That said, I’d come home and watch TNG reruns on public broadcasting like... all the time. And it was more reliably available than TOS. I didn’t see some TOS episodes until I was in my teens. I watched some DS9 with my parents, but they were sort of lukewarm on it because they were zealously preferential towards Babylon 5. Which our family schedule was oriented around for... years haha. A lot of younger people don’t get that... like, it used to be that you had to catch a certain episode as it aired because that’s when you had a chance to see it. Or you’d have to stalk the weird 11pm reruns on Wednesdays or whatever, which you’d better have caught because Babylon 5 was heavily serialized and GOD HELP YOU if you missed an episode in like early season 4 and you expected to know what the fuck was going on if you were skipping them.

So the short answer is “my first exposure to Star Trek predates my self-awareness”. damng haha.

[thebrazenandbold]

// Ooh Dirk Gently AND Hitchhikers Guide are on Britbox

[i-lost-the-tea]

Woa I didn’t know the summer holidays would mean moping around all day and then eating carrots out of the fridge at midnight 

[pedestrianverse]

I can't tell you how much I wish they'd bring out things like A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, Blackadder, The Young Ones etc in blu-ray

They all deserve it.

[oscarwetnwilde]

The Newport Beach library has Swing Time with Fred Astaire.

I checked it out. So happy.