Already a cancelled series in the USA, Star Trek burst onto BBC television screens at the end of 1969 and was shown almost continuously for many decades. I have fond memories of watching the series in the Winter of 1970 in our house at RAF Wyton, warmed by a crackling real coal fire in the fireplace shortly before the RAF boarded over the fireplaces and fitted electric storage radiators in all the married quarters, with the room lights off to save electricity. Everyone marvelled at this vision of the future, and as children we all dreamed that when we grew up, we'd all get the chance to zoom amongst the stars in spaceships like it.
My father bought my first AMC plastic kit of the USS Enterprise probably in early 1971 after he returned the to UK following a year of working abroad for the RAF. He built it for me, and I recall taking it to school to show my teacher and schoolmates - heaven knows how it didn't get broken! It went with us to Germany 1973 to 1976, but during the journey back home to the UK in September 1976, one of the engine nacelles got damaged in transit. One of the ends came off and was never seen again. I was gutted, so very quickly found a replacement kit in Woolworths in Market Drayton and built the second one myself. I kept the old one, and several years later converted it to the damaged USS Constellation from the episode "The Doomsday Machine". I have never photographed it - but it sits in my loft and one day I will get it down and do it some justice.
I also bought ready made models of the Next Generation Enterprise and Klingon ship in the early 1990s. These originally made various phase attack and alert noises when you pressed a button them. These have now sat in my loft for over 20 years and never been photographed. As with my USS Constellation, I will eventually bring them down and photograph them for this site.