What was your first episode of Trek?
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Yeah, a throwaway reference to recurrent facial structures or something. There was also a Myriad Universe story where the similarity between the Commander and Sarek was used as evidence to speed along reunification.
As for my own first episode, it was Cause and Effect; an awesome episode, that one.
It does make me curious though; it seems like just about all the current Pocket Books authors started off back in the TOS days from this thread so far. Are there any that only first got into Trek in, like, DS9 or later, and just loved it so much they ended up becoming novelists for it? Who's the "newest" Trek fan among the PB authors?
That's because we're old.
Seriously, I assume there must be some young Trek authors out there, but . . . .
I can't remember which one I saw first. The first few episodes I saw, I wasn't really watching, it was just on at a friend's house. A few of the scenes I remember I have since been able to match up with episodes: "The Game", "The Way of the Warrior", and "Phantasms" (with mint frosting!).
Once I started actually watching the shows, the first was "Emissary".
Once I started actually watching the shows, the first was "Emissary".
I'm sure a few discuss this in "Voyages of Imagination" by Jeff Ayers. Lots of "Strange New World" finalists came into the franchise with TNG, IIRC.
Ilsa J. Bick was a relative latecomer, no?
For me it was "Bonk bonk on the head", "No kill I", a cardboard Western town, and naked Kirk spinning on that android machine.
It's been over 35 years since I first watched Star Trek and try as i can I just can't remember which was my first episodes. All those old memories are too jumbled.
My first episode that I watched, but wasn't a fan or really knew what I was watching...was "Best of Both Worlds Part I". I think I was ten or something. I wouldn't start watching TNG as a Star Trek fan until a couple of years later when I started watching it with my mom. I actually don't really remember.
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I have no idea. It may have been an early Next Gen or an Original series episode on BBC Two in the late eighties, but as for a specific episode, couldn't say. I do remember watching a VHS of Transfigurations, Best of Both Worlds parts I and the Best of Both Worlds part II and Family a few months before they aired on BBCTwo on a Wednesday.
I do have a very strong memory of my mum waiting out in the car when BoBW's aired on BBCTwo as I was meant to be going to Cubs that evening and I left just as the Enterprise was entering the debris field at Wolf 359.
I do have a very strong memory of my mum waiting out in the car when BoBW's aired on BBCTwo as I was meant to be going to Cubs that evening and I left just as the Enterprise was entering the debris field at Wolf 359.
That's because we're old.
Seriously, I assume there must be some young Trek authors out there, but . . . .
At 24, I was the youngest guy at the SNW 9 table. It was the first time I'd ever traveled alone.
I'm sure, also, I watched some TOS episodes, but the first I actually remember was the very first episode of TNG. I was a kid, watching on the typical TV that we had as kids. You had to manually change the channel via a turn knob. There was a know for VHF and a knob for UHf (yes I'm dating myself
). We had just gotten a new channel on UHF and on the first day, this new series, TNG started. I was hooked.
). We had just gotten a new channel on UHF and on the first day, this new series, TNG started. I was hooked.I remember I felt like such a badass when I learned how to pause recording on my VCR...
Me too!
No. I wasn't asking the question. I was a kid, and that was a thought I had. I didn't need a smartass answer, thanks.
Well, gee, that kinda takes the fun out of things. People know things and want to share and they're smartasses?
I didn't think you were actually asking a question.
It always throws me when people assume my replies to their posts are directed exclusively at them, as though these were private messages or something. This is a public forum. Lots of people read the posts. I'm generally writing with that whole audience in mind. If I reply to a given person's post, I often do so in the spirit of chiming in and adding further thoughts for the general readership to consider. Or clarifying something that various readers might misinterpret, regardless of whether the original poster understood it or not.
Same here. I get challenged for selecting a relevant line from someone's post and using that as my launching pad for what I want to say on the matter. Inevitably, that poster, or others, will assume my message is directed only at them.
I wasn't. And that's why I said I didn't need an answer. The smartass was more that (and I know it's text, and I shouldn't add tone, but it is Christopher here, and he is known for his know-it-all way of responding) I thought it was gratuitous. If he was actually trying to make an informative point to the other readers who might actually wonder why they don't always address how two characters with the same actor look alike, then I apologize. As my original statement talked about a child's logic (or at least that of an unsophisticated viewer), I thought it was implied that such ideas were silly to start out with, but others might not see it that way.
And I agreed that such ideas were silly, and I underlined the point by demonstrating that it was a routine practice to cast the same actor in multiple roles. That's just my way -- to think of things in terms of the underlying patterns or relationships that define them, to show how isolated facts fit into the greater whole and can thereby be explained and understood. I think in patterns and analogies and associations, and so I tend to ramble from one example to the next to the next.
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