Remember the first Star Trek episode you watched?

[at Quark's]

Might have been TNG: 'conundrum'.

Not knowing Commander macDuff wasn't supposed to be there made the episode entertaining in a different way (I suppose) than it would have been to seasoned TNG fans.

 

[Oddish]

First Trek I remember is ST II, The Wrath of Khan.

 

[Space Socialist]

First episode of Trek I saw was the TNG pilot, whenever BBC2 first broadcast it (some Wednesday evening in 1990?). Didn’t really understand any of it – for many years Trek was something my parents watched, and I happened to be in the room, rather than anything I cared about.

 

[Space Socialist]

First episode of Trek I saw was the TNG pilot, whenever BBC2 first broadcast it (some Wednesday evening in 1990?). Didn’t really understand any of it – for many years Trek was something my parents watched, and I happened to be in the room, rather than anything I cared about.

Hang on, other series’ episodes:

TOS I first watched when BBC2 repeated it during the gaps of TNG seasons. Didn’t really ‘get’ it until I rewatched it early in adulthood whenever E4 aired it early evening.

I’ve never seen TAS.

DS9 and VOY I first watched whenever first BBC2 aired their respective pilot episodes (I remember the pilot of VOY was shown as part of BBC2’s Star Trek Night).

ENT I watched the pilot when Sky1 broadcast it, which IIRC was roughly six months after the American airing.

 

[Qonundrum]

The earliest one that I remember featured rows of big glowing balls and a cave. No, it's not prop reuse, it's "Return to Tomorrow".

 

[Schlegelmilch]

I didn't start watching full episodes until the early 70's when I was in elementary school. I have an early memory of my father watching an episode when I was very young. It was Assignment Earth. Kirk and Spock were in regular clothes. I thought that the bridge doors led directly to the transporter room until I was older.

 

[Ovation]

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

Also on WLVI Ch. 56, The Devil in the Dark on a Saturday night in October, 1973. The sitter was a fan, so that’s how it started. Been watching ever since.

 

[Stargazer_101]

It was probably something from TOS, since although I didn't get into Star Trek until TNG, I did watch the occasional episode from TOS. It's now on both Netflix and ME TV (I also have cable, since it's cheaper to bundle the internet through my cable provider than get it separately with two or three different streaming services). I do remember watching The Trouble with Tribbles, but I'm unsure if it's the very first Star Trek episode I saw.

 

[Vger23]

Also on WLVI Ch. 56, The Devil in the Dark on a Saturday night in October, 1973. The sitter was a fan, so that’s how it started. Been watching ever since.

There was one spring / summer in the early 80s where WLVI played two TOS episodes back-to back every weekday late afternoon. Ahhhh those were great days growing up!

 

[Ovation]

There was one spring / summer in the early 80s where WLVI played two TOS episodes back-to back every weekday late afternoon. Ahhhh those were great days growing up!

I remember. Was always annoyed when dinner was served before the second one had finished. No TV during dinner (not a bad policy from a parenting point of view, but damned annoying to a teenager missing out on Trek).

 

[Vger23]

I remember. Was always annoyed when dinner was served before the second one had finished. No TV during dinner (not a bad policy from a parenting point of view, but damned annoying to a teenager missing out on Trek).

1000%

Do you also remember that they’d have guest actors on to intro the different episodes? Mark Lenard did one I recall.

 

[Ovation]

1000%

Do you also remember that they’d have guest actors on to intro the different episodes? Mark Lenard did one I recall.

No. I'd forgotten that. Too bad my parents didn't get a VCR until AFTER DVDs were on the market. I'd have a giant stack of tapes to look through to find such gems.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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.

My experience was similar, except my first episode was "The Cloud Minders."

 

[Oddish]

Here's me, series by series, and when I saw them.
TOS: Star Trek II, 1982 or so.
TAS: Beyond the Farthest Star, 2022.
TNG: Not sure. I remember "Skin of Evil" as an early one, in late 80's.
DS9: Emissary, when it premiered in 1992.
VOY: Time and Again, 1994 or 95.
ENT: Broken Bow, when it premiered in 2001.
DIS: "The Vulcan Hello", streamed in 2019 or so.
LD, PRO, PIC, and SNW: Streamed the pilots, more or less when they premiered.
ST: "Children of Mars", 2022.

 

[Bea Jonas]

The first episode of Star Trek I saw was "The Omega Glory"—sometime in the autumn of 1970. One of our local TV stations bought the TOS syndication package and began airing it back-to-back with The Wild, Wild West (another recently cancelled network show) each weekday afternoon. For a kid back then, this made for a really great after-school combo!

The primary reason I remember it was "The Omega Glory" is because the episode got me into a little trouble later that evening. At bedtime, I arranged my shirt and pants on floor of my room, then poured little piles of powdered laundry soap (Cheer was the brand we used back then) where my head, hands, and feet should be (attempting to imitate the fate of those poor crewmembers on the U.S.S. Exeter).

Once satisfied with my efforts, I cried out "Mom!" and hid behind my bedroom door. Unfortunately, my mother did not believe for one instant that I had been turned to powder by some strange alien virus. When I popped out from behind the door with a big grin on my face, she merely rolled her eyes, told me to get the broom and dustpan from the hall closet and clean up the mess pronto, before leaving the room with a heavy sigh.

Despite my prank failing miserably, I plopped down in front of the TV eagerly the next day after school to watch Star Trek again—I was hooked.

 

[Annorax849]

No, it was probably early TNG, maybe TOS rerun. I have faint memories of the satellite in “The Neutral Zone,” but Where Silence Has Lease was the first episode I sort of coherently remember, it was probably on tape or something.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

i was late to the party... Enterprise . Broken Bow.
Edit: and now i got that itch.... but it has to wait, im in the middle of a DS9 rewatch again.

 

[J.T.B.]

It was the animated series, 1973 or '74, but I was way too young to remember which episode.

Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and then Star Trek!

 

[shyborg]

TNG Hero Worship when I was around 6 maybe. I vividly remember being impressed by Data's ability to build at high speed

 

[ralfy]

TOS re-run, featuring the mime, and in black-and-white. Didn't like it.