Nostalgia question: what year did you see your first TOS episode?

[Redfern]

I think the first two are dated November, 1977. The rest came out over the next year. Most of the first 6 were reprinted once, in 1979. By 1980, they were all gone from US bookstores.

The last big hurrah in that venue was the adaptation of The Motion Picture. True The Wrath of Khan was also released, but in greyscale?! I suspect that cost cutting scheme pretty much killed the line. Plus, by the mid 80s, affordably priced VCRs had hit the market and Paramount licensed the sale of episodes. That probably drove the final nail into the coffin. Speaking of The Wrath of Khan, that was the first movie to finally break the 80 dollar price tag normally slapped onto VHS movie sales, slashing it in half, just under 40 bucks.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

Honestly I'm not sure any more. I think it was the Summer of '69. I have vague memories of watching The Cloud Minders on my Dad's little B&W portable on our back porch after a late night swim the year we put the pool in.

 

[Poltargyst]

I think it was the Summer of '69.

You and Bryan Adams?

 

[Tallguy]

You and Bryan Adams?

Beat me to it.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

Easy. September 8, 1966.

 

[wayoung]

Probably 1983. My dad likely watched it on TV the first Sunday I was home from the hospital.

 

[Tallguy]

Probably 1983. My dad likely watched it on TV the first Sunday I was home from the hospital.

Perfect.

When my son was born we watched '09 AT THE HOSPITAL.

 

[aridas sofia]

Very light. Almost fluffy, which was part of what made it an effective insulator. But also very fragile.

In 1976, I was a senior in high school studying advanced physics, and we took a field trip to the lab that developed those tiles. I got to hold one and was distinctly amazed by their simultaneous toughness and lightness.

 

[Phaser Two]

In 1976, I was a senior in high school studying advanced physics, and we took a field trip to the lab that developed those tiles. I got to hold one and was distinctly amazed by their simultaneous toughness and lightness.

Fantastic! Where was the lab, if you don't mind saying?

 

[aridas sofia]

Fantastic! Where was the lab, if you don't mind saying?

We went to several places but if I recall correctly that material was at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

 

[Lucky]

I grew up with it. My dad was a fan. I can't remember a time when I didn't watch Star Trek. I was born in 84, so I assume I watched my first episode around 89 or 90.

 

[Loke Olsson]

I watched the first episode with my gran at her place as a kid in the early 90’s on VHS after that i was hooked on all things star trek

 

[DarrenTR1970]

The last big hurrah in that venue was the adaptation of The Motion Picture. True The Wrath of Khan was also released, but in greyscale?.

I had The Wrath of Khan photonovel. What I remember from it, aside from it being in greyscale, was that a few of the images were reversed and the Regula 1 space laboratory was flipped upside down/right side up so it looked like it was in The Motion Picture.
I also remember that the spine broke pretty easily and the pages started falling out.

 

[grudgecat209]

In 2009. My dad loved Star Trek TOS and had the entire series on DVD. The first episode I saw was "Amok Time".

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

I think it was in 1982 or 1983. The episode was The Gamesters of Triskelion.

 

[Phaser Two]

Argh! I am totally jealous of those of you who know what episode you saw first.

 

[Greg Cox]

1966, during its original run on NBC. My dad would let me stay up past my bedtime to watch it with him.

 

[Tallguy]

Easy. September 8, 1966.

Hey, you didn't say what episode!

 

[Ceridwen]

It was 1998, I was thirteen, I was a huge Star Wars fan, and I was trying to find a different Star story to get my little brother into so that he would leave my stuff alone. I took The Motion Picture out of the library on VHS, and "unfortunately" I was way more into it than he was.

My uncle had been a Star Trek fan since first run, though, and he was thrilled to hear how much I liked the movie. He had been taping the Star Trek Special Editions that were airing on Sci Fi Channel at the time, so I was pretty lucky to be introduced to them unedited and with commentary from the stars. (My parents were really strict with media, so everything was on tapes until I was sixteen, less chance of seeing something they didn't want that way.) I don't remember which episode was first on that tape, but it was a collection of episodes that were either aired in a "top X" marathon, or my uncle had picked his favorites to record, as it had most of the classics like "Devil in the Dark", "Balance of Terror" (I will always hear that title in Leonard Nimoy's voice because of that tape), and "City on the Edge of Forever".

 

[Tallguy]

It was 1998, I was thirteen, I was a huge Star Wars fan, and I was trying to find a different Star story to get my little brother into so that he would leave my stuff alone. I took The Motion Picture out of the library on VHS, and "unfortunately" I was way more into it than he was.

My uncle had been a Star Trek fan since first run, though, and he was thrilled to hear how much I liked the movie. He had been taping the Star Trek Special Editions that were airing on Sci Fi Channel at the time, so I was pretty lucky to be introduced to them unedited and with commentary from the stars. (My parents were really strict with media, so everything was on tapes until I was sixteen, less chance of seeing something they didn't want that way.) I don't remember which episode was first on that tape, but it was a collection of episodes that were either aired in a "top X" marathon, or my uncle had picked his favorites to record, as it had most of the classics like "Devil in the Dark", "Balance of Terror" (I will always hear that title in Leonard Nimoy's voice because of that tape), and "City on the Edge of Forever".

You STARTED with TMP? And it WORKED?!? Squeee!