Well, if we're going to be that way about it, I still haven't seen 100% of every second of TOS-R, and I never will.
Does anyone remember the final TOS episode you saw after 77 others?
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I have seen
Damn. I'm a nerd.
EDIT: I've seen -- A fair amount of TOS-R?
- 100%: TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, PIC, LDS, SNW, PRO (Yikes, the only thing I've watched 100% on air date is PIC and SNW! I think I managed five seasons of TNG.)
- Every movie on opening week if not opening day. The only films I didn't see multiple times in their original runs are TMP (not my fault, I was ten!), INS, NEM, and the Kelvin films (I had babies then). I saw TUC three times on opening night.
- Pilot on airdate: TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, PIC, SNW (TNG and ENT at Star Trek parties)
- Finale on airdate: TNG, VOY, ENT, PIC, LDS, PRO (it's Netflix, so...) (TNG at a Star Trek party)
Damn. I'm a nerd.
EDIT: I've seen -- A fair amount of TOS-R?
The Star Trek parties sound like a blast!
I have to say the Farpoint party was pretty great. (Thanks, Charles!) It was several circles of friends (not every circle really liked all of the other ones) in a really big house. It was on TVs in several rooms and everyone would wander from room to room during commercials.
I can't really describe what it was like watching the first Star Trek on television in my lifetime. It was generally well received. Not a home run but we wanted more. (I still love Farpoint.)
All Good Things and Broken Bow were smaller affairs. And in apartments.
Wrong key or I got an abbreviation wrong? Which part?I believe Tallguy may have struck a wrong key three posts above this one.
It's probably accidental thread drift more than a key. When I saw all the non-TOS shows and films mentioned, then the follow-up party comments, things seemed much less focused on TOS finales. This isn't a complaint or a mini-mod attempt. It's likely my misunderstanding.
I've elected to delete my previous comment.
It's probably accidental thread drift more than a key. When I saw all the non-TOS shows and films mentioned, then the follow-up party comments, things seemed much less focused on TOS finales. This isn't a complaint or a mini-mod attempt. It's likely my misunderstanding.
I've elected to delete my previous comment.
I think I was responding to this:
I'm certainly not a fake fan but there is still a lot of stuff I've never seen. For some reason I think I'm more in the mood to tackle four seasons of ENT and two seasons of DSC than six seasons of VOY.
I remember that I thought I had seen them all — certainly I’d seen most of them multiple times — and when TWOK came out I was surprised to learn there was at least one I hadn’t seen.
I don’t know whether Space Seed was my very last, but it was definitely near the end. And it was definitely exciting to catch it. It wasn’t like I could pull it up on demand or knew when it was coming. I just knew this episode existed, but I’d have to wait to catch it on TV. And when you’re twelve, waiting is a big deal.
I don’t know whether Space Seed was my very last, but it was definitely near the end. And it was definitely exciting to catch it. It wasn’t like I could pull it up on demand or knew when it was coming. I just knew this episode existed, but I’d have to wait to catch it on TV. And when you’re twelve, waiting is a big deal.
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Not necessarily. I was born a year after TOS left NBC and I can't remember what episode I saw last. Or first for that matter.
When I finally got the entire show on DVD, I watched all of them including the ones I’d never seen before… except for Wolf in the Fold (randomly chosen) because I wanted there still to be one more never-seen episode out there.
I folded after a couple of years and watched it. It was pretty good.
I folded after a couple of years and watched it. It was pretty good.
I saw the episodes in early syndication (may have seen a few in first run, but memory fails since I would've been 5 when Turnabout first aired). I can't say for sure which one I actually saw last, but I'll never forget which one I remember seeing last: Where No Man Has Gone Before. I had no idea how TV was made or what pilots were, and I thought I totally knew Star Trek, so this unexpected anomaly in the universe just blew my little mind.
I had a similar experience when I prevailed upon my mom to buy me a copy of Allan Asherman's "The Star Trek Compendium" at a Sci-Fi convention @ 1989 or so. I don't think people who have grown up in the internet era (and especially in the internet and streaming era) can begin to conceive of how revelatory it was to get your hands on a book like this in the middle of a catch-as-catch-can syndication watch. And how affirming-- I knew only one other kid my age who watched TOS (or at least admitted to doing so). It was wild to see that this show was important enough to so many others to justify a book of minutiae
I am not a hoarder by nature but I still have that book; throwing it out would feel like throwing out a living thing.
I love this question because I vividly remember my experience with the answer. I started watching the show when I was 3 (in 1978), and became a tremendous fan quickly. I started studying episode guides a couple of years later, and I realized that I had never seen Catspaw. It took me until I was almost 9 to see it. I got a VCR for my 8th birthday, and I recorded and saved all of the episodes when they ran at midnight in my market. They didn’t run them in order, which was why I had never caught Catspaw; there was no way to know when it would be aired. But when I started recording all of them, it came up in the rotation, and I finally saw my 79th episode. I don’t think it’s one of the highlights of the series, but I still feel a little tinge of excitement whenever I watch it because I remember how it felt seeing it as my very last new Star Trek episode.
I started watching ST in 1967, so only caught the reruns of Season 1 "live" at the time. Then I pretty much caught everything up to the dreary end.
Then I picked it up in syndication in the early 70s, but for whatever reason I always missed "Miri", and I knew it because by then I had a list of season 1 and 2 eps...when I finally caught it I was delighted.
But later I also found out I'd never seen "Elaan of Troyius". Back then I didn't have a solid written list of Season 3 eps. So it came to me as a pleasant surprise, and I remember really digging the Steiner score.
Then I picked it up in syndication in the early 70s, but for whatever reason I always missed "Miri", and I knew it because by then I had a list of season 1 and 2 eps...when I finally caught it I was delighted.
But later I also found out I'd never seen "Elaan of Troyius". Back then I didn't have a solid written list of Season 3 eps. So it came to me as a pleasant surprise, and I remember really digging the Steiner score.
"And the Children Shall Lead." Because my local UHF station (a CBN affiliate at the time) refused to air it.
So I saw all the other episodes multiple times. But this one episode, I had to wait for a local Star Trek convention to show it there on film.
A huge letdown, actually. I remember thinking, "I waited for THIS episode? It's godawful."
So I saw all the other episodes multiple times. But this one episode, I had to wait for a local Star Trek convention to show it there on film.
A huge letdown, actually. I remember thinking, "I waited for THIS episode? It's godawful."
THIS one? Why?!?
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