How old were you when you saw your first ST ep

[Vandervecken]

How old were you, and describe what you saw and how?

Mine, I am sure, is Spectre of the Gun. The reason I think it had to be this is that I can remember seeing what we called in those days "coming attractions" for Day of the Dove just before my parents sent me to bed, and now I can see Spectre of the Gun was the ep just before Day of the Dove in broadcast order. I also recall seeing something that identified NBC. Funny thing is--but you know how odd childhood memory can be--I don't remember seeing Spectre of the Gun, just the coming attractions for Day of the Dove. I'm guessing I fell asleep during the episode (which now I love).

I begged my folks to let me stay up. I was 6.

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

I was 6 also. I cant remember the episode I saw. I remember watching it with my dad though. I just cant remember the episode.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I can't recall the specific title of what I saw, but I know I saw Mr. Spock on TV when I was about 2. We only had a black and white set at the time, it would have been 1968 I guess. I asked my mom why the man with the funny ears and brows never smiled. She said it was because he had no emotion. And then I asked "What's emotion"?

I watched bits and pieces of it during my childhood. But I could take it or leave it until I saw the 2nd or 3rd movie when I was in my teens. Then I went and watched the reruns that were shown on one of our local stations.

 

[Timewalker]

I was 12, and it was November 1975. The episode was "By Any Other Name."

It's all my grandfather's fault. I didn't want to watch that weird pointy-eared guy, but my grandfather wouldn't let me change the channel. By the end of the episode, I was thinking, "This wasn't so bad."

At that time, Star Trek was on 5 days/week, on two different channels (overlapping by half an hour). I started watching the show, but for some reason it took over a year to finally catch the first half of "Conscience of the King." That was the last episode I had to watch in its entirety before being able to say I'd seen them all.

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

I was eight, in the spring of 1977, and Swedish national TV started to air some Star Trek episodes (nine in total). They began with WNMHGB. I was instantly hooked!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Forty-two. That's the answer to everything, isn't it? But in this case it's actually true. TNG, 1992.

 

[Amaris]

It was in 1984, and I was 4 years old. I think the first episode I ever watched was The Devil in the Dark. The reason I think it is, is because it was one of my mom's favorite episodes, and she wanted me to watch it, so I'm fairly certain (but not 100%) on that being the episode.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I remember watching "Mirror, Mirror" when I was in high school. I think it kick-started my obsession with parallel-universe stories.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Seven, way back in 1966. IIRC it was the Man Trap. Thought the Salt Vampire was scary.Operation: Annihilate was more memorable because my two sisters and I thought the neural parasites looked like hotcakes. And having watched Green Acres, we called them "hotscakes" like Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) Which made the episode a lot funnier.

 

[UnknownSample]

Eight-- Squire of Gothos, first run. It had been pre-empted in our area before then. My mother had seen it in another city on a vacation with my father. I thought Spock was the captain because he was in the big chair for a lot of that episode. I remember the whole thing being amazing, and too much for my forming brain to take in. I specifically remember that sensation of comprehension being stretched beyond my limit, but I liked that. I never saw it as a light, wacky episode as some do, but a dark, foreboding one.

 

[Nyotarules]

I was Primary school age (Between 4 and 11). My mother was a fan and liked watching it. I enjoyed seeing a pretty black woman on tv who wasn't a maid, it was a rare thing in those days. Cannot recall the episode but was hooked.

 

[dswynne1]

6 years old, TOS, "The Omega Glory" (I even had a View Master film of that episode).

 

[Smoked Salmon]

3 years old, and it wasn't a TOS episode. It was The Motion Picture. Well, that's what I can remember anyhow. I may have seen TOS on TV and just not remember, as it was my grandfather who was a fan and it showed in the 70s in the UK.

 

[Smoked Salmon]

I was Primary school age (Between 4 and 11). My mother was a fan and liked watching it. I enjoyed seeing a pretty black woman on tv who wasn't a maid, it was a rare thing in those days.

Whoopi? Zat U?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Oh, wow. I can't recall. I do remember watching DS9 and VOY episodes when they showed them on CityTv up in Canada. Might have seen some TNG before that, definitely after. I've only recently seen TOS, never seen ENT (except while flipping channels, maybe), seen all TOS movies except Generations (IV more than once), none of the TNG films, and the 09 and Into Darkness.

 

[Lance]

The earliest Star Trek episode I can recollect was the first broadcast of TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom", at around age 5. That ep therefore holds a nostalgic place in my heart every time I rewatch it.

 

[SPCTRE]

No way to be sure, my best guess would be somewhere between 6 and 8 years old. Either a then-recent episode of TNG or a rerun of one.

 

[jamestyler]

Too young to remember :/ The earliest memory I have is TNG coming to the BBC and me being very confused at the lack of familier faces!

 

[Trek Survivor]

I was aware of the Original Series so had likely watched bits of episodes in the past, but the first episode I watched all the way through was TNG "Encounter At Farpoint" back in 1989 (rented VHS copy; the BBC wouldn't start showing the series until the following year).

I had seen TMP, TWOK and TSFS before then, however.

 

[Rad]

I was 6 or 7, and I remember sneaking out of bed and into my older sisters room to watch Star Trek on her black & white RCA TV. This was in the 1967ish... I was hooked, and at that time, did not understand why it was not on every week at the same time! (either the season was over, moved to another time slot or cancelled). I don't remember the episodes from then, only that I knew i LOVED the show.

When the local Pittsburgh PA UHF station started rerunning in syndication in the early 1970's, that was when I became obsessed.