Dark Skies you and me both! Back at that young age when I thought TV didnt bulls**t me, I wanted either to be a Starship captain (preferabley the Enterprise) and a Thunderbird 1 pilot. If I was a good boy and tried real real hard the world was my oyster.
Up until Grade 1 at school I was an excelent student. When my folks congratulated me for being so good, thats when I told them its because I wanted to one day command the Enterprise. And if I could squeeze it in Id join IR and have a crack at TB1. Then mum said "Dear, Star Trek and Thunderbirds are all made up. Its called.....fiction."
Nothin like destroying a kids dream in one foul swoop.