I was 3 when Star Trek: The Next Generation first aired in 1986. It came on at 7, after the 6 o'clock news. My nerdy parents stayed put after the news, so I believed that Star Trek was real, space news. I loved the space news after the boring Earth news. I was so devastated when I learned it wasn't real that the Santa Claus truth was an anticlimactic afterthought. I'm now an engineer at NASA so I think it had an effect on me...
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- I believed Walter Cronkite knew everything, that's why they let him do the news.— Dixon
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- I used to think that the Huey Lewis and the News song "I Want a New Drug" went "I Want a New Truck".— Chloe
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon