Remember the first Star Trek episode you watched?

[JesterFace]

Can you?
Many of us most likely will not remember the very first one, I don't.
However I can guess.
It must have been something from later seasons of STNG guessing by the uniforms.

The first one I actually remember watching would be STNG and 'Descent' part 2 in late 90s but before 1998.
I remember Picard and chums being imprisoned by Lore and Beverly was trying to outsmart the Borg ship.

 

[fireproof78]

"Balance of Terror." Still one of my favorites. Had the Mego action figures for playing out different ideas after the fact.

Then read the Star Trek Concordance back to front.

 

[Macintosh]

TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint".

 

[1001001]

Don’t remember, but it was definitely TOS.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I know that I was watching as young as two years. I have no idea what the episode was.

 

[Vger23]

It was TOS “Where No Man Has Gone Before” on WLVI 56 in Boston, back when they’d broadcast the reruns in production order.

 

[Takeru]

Don't remember which episode but it was a TOS rerun. I think I was 8 or 9 years old.

 

[Paul755]

The first anything Trek I remember seeing was “The Undiscovered Country”. Tv episode had to be something TNG, I just can’t remember.

 

[scotpens]

I was a Trekkie from the very beginning. I watched "The Man Trap" on its original NBC broadcast date, Sept. 8, 1966, a few weeks shy of my 13th birthday. From that moment I was hooked.

 

[drt]

I had hooked after I saw “The Doomsday Machine” when I was around four or five in the early 70s. It would have been before the animated series, as I recall watching that when it was first run and I was already pretty familiar with the show.

 

[NCC-73515]

TNG Conspiracy - only kept watching and became a fan because censors took out that scene

 

[Lord Garth]

The very, very first? Probably some rerun of TOS in the '80s that my parents and/or grandparents might've watched, that I can't remember. I have images in my head of TOS episodes that I can't piece together, so I would've had to have been very young (younger than six if I can't remember cleary). It would have to have been pre-1985.

The very first episode I clearly remember seeing part of before changing the channel? The beginning of what I now know to be "We'll Always Have Paris" (TNG). It would've had to have been 1988. I clearly remember watching Picard fencing. Then I got bored with what happened after that and changed the channel. Sorry!

The very first that I remember watching from start-to-finish? Some episode of TAS on Nickelodeon, circa 1989. I have no idea which one now.

The first one that I watched from start-to-finish and know what episode I actually watched? "The Cage". I was a fan by 1991, though I'd only seen the movies. I bought Starlog's 25th Anniversarry Magazine Special and I read about "The Cage", where I first found out about that episode. The fact that it was rejected and had a different cast made me even more interested. So my mother bought "The Cage" for me on VHS and I watched it, before I saw any other episodes of TOS or TNG.

I rented "Encounter at Farpoint" eventually, only because I kept seeing the promo for TNG right before Star Trek IV on the VHS Tape. I didn't like it, except for a few parts, and wouldn't look at TNG again until I read on TV Guide that Spock would be making an appearance.

The first episode of TOS Proper that I saw was "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in the summer of 1992, when WPRI Channel 64 took a break from showing reruns of TNG and switched to TOS for a few months.

 

[Tosk]

I think the first Trek I ever saw was Star Trek III in the cinema. First episode was possibly By Any Other Name. Coincidentally, also seen in a cinema. (Or it may have been Encounter at Farpoint on TV. Difficult to nail down the exact sequence.)

 

[Doctorossi]

I’m pretty sure it was Operation: Annihilate! (hence my avatar). An underrated episode, IMO.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

If we don't count what little I can remember of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home I saw in theaters as a 6 year old, or Star Trek V: The Final Frontier at the drive-in with my mom as a 9 year old, or Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country I borrowed off my neighbor, then The Enterprise Incident right before I went camping shortly after watching it. I remember having a huge crush on the Romulan Commander. Shortly afterward, I was immersing myself in the six Star Trek movies, and about that time DS9 was starting and I was obsessed with it

 

[Cyfa]

The very first episode I can remember with any clarity is, just like @Doctorossi, Operation: Annihilate! I was very young, so early 80s, and I remember the Enterprise swooshing across the screen in the opening credits, and then being terrified of the hideous, flying parasites!
The first film was TWOK on telly, so later on in the 80s, and again terrifying. It's a wonder I became a fan

 

[Sumire]

I don’t remember the exact episode but it must have been reruns of TOS as a kid in the early eighties. My mom (the Trekkie) made me a shirt with that fabric that was really popular for kids briefly that had a phrase woven into a repeating pattern. This design was red and had a blue “Star Trek” between blue lines. (I had others that I liked better because they were pastel but I no longer recall what they said.) I have a strong memory of choosing to wear the Star Trek shirt when we were headed to Grandma and Grandpa’s house because we watched Star Trek there. (Our TV was a hand-me-down with dials you had to rubber band in place and I recall listening to shows I could barely see through the static, hence watching stuff at their place.)

I was young enough I don’t remember having any idea when the show was made or how many episodes it had or even which of my parents was the fan (I thought they both were). It was just this show we watched from my parents’ past that they liked a lot and it went with the shirt.

 

[Doctorossi]

The very first episode I can remember with any clarity is, just like @Doctorossi, Operation: Annihilate! I was very young, so early 80s, and I remember the Enterprise swooshing across the screen in the opening credits, and then being terrified of the hideous, flying parasites!
The first film was TWOK on telly, so later on in the 80s, and again terrifying. It's a wonder I became a fan

Am I looking in the mirror (universe)?

It would've been early '80's for me, too ('81?). I wonder if we watched the same broadcast.

 

[Henoch]

I remember watching the first rerun of the original broadcast of Who Mourns For Adonais? in 1968 at my cousin's house (lucky guy). My household didn't watch Star Trek, so, that was my first and only exposure to the original broadcast. Later in syndication, I was able to watch the show on my 12" black and white TV (with reception enhancing aluminum foil on the antenna).

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

"The City on the Edge of Forever" in syndication in the mid-70s on WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama.