Last "New" Original Episode You Saw

[Orion Pimp]

For all of us sick, obsessed bastards, it seems that all 79 have been burned into our memories since before man could walk upright, but if your weren't around during the original run in the 60s or if you were just not in front of the tube to catch them all, what was the one episode that you managed to miss repeatedly and were pleased to discover that for you, was a lost episode.

For me it was my senior year of high school. Many, many moons ago. At the time our PBS station used to air a few episodes each Saturday night.

I was hanging out at a friends house and the first episode ended and suddenly there's a jet on a runway and an air force base with a bunch of activity going on.

"aww, what the hell is this?" I remember saying to my buddy. I figured that PBS had just shit canned the line up (as they sometimes did) and decided to air some old war movie.
My buddy laughed and said "It's tomorrow is yesterday!"

"huh?"

"You know the one where blah, blah, blah...."

and I just stared at him like this

Until finally he aggrevatedly pointed at the screen and said "Goddammit, look!"

There she was.

The Enterprise climbing out of the atmosphere.

Naturally the only response I could muster was "HOLY F\/(K!!"
and then I giggled like a little girl.

Did you have one that you kept missing
or never knew was out there?

What was your "Lost TOS Episode"?

 

[Sovay]

Great story!
Sadly I wasn't invented till the 80's and in england at the point in time where I'd have been interested, they weren't showing, only TNG, VOY, and DS9 were (I knew vaguely that there had been star trek in the 60's from cultural references, but I'd never seen any) it wasn't till I moved to America and had lived here a few years that my husband suggested I may like it and showed me the first ones, I was like "YOU'VE BEEN KEEPING THIS FROM ME ALL THIS TIME?"

Long story short I watched them all in sequence, several a day, for a few weeks till I'd consumed them all, and I've rewatched them over and over since, haha, so, no undiscovered episodes for me sadly, except The Cage- haven't seen that one yet!

Looking forward to seeing other people's stories

 

[Orion Pimp]

I rolled off the assembly line in the early 70s so I missed the first run also, but that's great that you had a chance to see the original from that perspective!
So essentially ALL of the original series was a new experience to you. That's awesome.

 

[Grant]

"Omega Glory' in February 1976 at my future wifes house.

I had read various books listing the episodes and checked them off but it took 6 solid years to catch Omega Glory.

 

[plynch]

I saw them all "stripped" (Mon-Fri) in the 70s on 50 in Detroit. Then they put em on the weekends. Missed none, but they sure ran The Empath a lot. I like it now that my prefrontal cortex is fully grown and I can appreciate the theme (self-sacrifice), but as a kid, hated it. Peace to all.

 

[Sovay]

I rolled off the assembly line in the early 70s so I missed the first run also, but that's great that you had a chance to see the original from that perspective!
So essentially ALL of the original series was a new experience to you. That's awesome.

Yes, and that goes for all the movies too! I'd never seen any of those haha, so after TOS, we started all the movies in sequence. It was sort of nice to see TMP and V and enjoy them before realizing a lot of people hate them

 

[Red Ranger]

Well, I grew up watching them all on reruns here in New York City on Channel 11, which aired it at one point six nights a week at 6 pm, Monday through Saturday. So I think the last ep I saw was when they released "The Cage," which I saw for the first time at the Museum of Broadcasting. -- RR

 

[Captain Robert April]

Hm. Tricky.

I was a toddler when the show premiered and not quite five when "Turnabout Intruder" aired, so even though I have it on good authority that I was in the room when Star Trek was on, no memories of specific episodes. It wasn't until Channel 4 stripped them in the mid 70's that I was able to consciously watch them all, and I did, without fail, so by that standard, it'd be "Turnabout Intruder". Doesn't feel right, though, so I'll skip that part of the formula.

The first time I saw "The Cage" was when Gene Roddenberry was on his lecture tour in '76, and he made a stop at McNichols Sports Arena. Along with three of the blooper reels, they ran his black & white work print of "The Cage". Hearing the unaltered voice of the Keeper was quite a revelation.

Then there was when I tracked down a bootleg copy of the original cut of "Where No Man Has Gone Before", with the different theme music and Quinn Martin-style act breaks, sometime in the early to mid 90's. I'd read about it, but hadn't actually seen it until I actually had the videotape. If Paramount wants to make a few more bucks, that's the one they need to include in a DVD set. The Smithsonian has a copy, maybe they could borrow it to make the transfer.

 

[Mike Okuda]

During the last few months of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Doug Drexler occasionally mentioned that he hadn't seen last week's episode. This was quite unusual. Not only were we all proud of our work on Trek, but we often learned a lot from seeing the final version on the air, even if we were physically there during filming. Anyway, when I asked him "why," he explained that he was saving a few TNG episodes for future years, so there's still be some fresh episodes to look forward to. Smart guy, that Doug! I wish I'd been as smart toward the end of the original series.

-Mike

 

[Chrisisall]

My lost ep was Conscience Of The King. I missed it first-run, and in early syndication as well. One day I came home from school, and at 6pm it came on. I nearly peed my kilt! A NEW EP??? How was that possible???? I MUST have seen them ALL in these last ten years!!!
Good thing not many 16 year olds get heart attacks!

 

[Greg Cox]

I saw them all repeatedly when they were syndicated in late sixties, but I don't think I've actually seen "The Way to Eden" for a couple of decades now.

Strangely, I feel no desire to remedy this situation . . . .

 

[Lord Garth]

"Whom Gods Destroy", ironically. I'd managed to watch most of the series by 1996 but there were some skips. "Whom Gods Destroy" was the last one.

I saw them all repeatedly when they were syndicated in late sixties, but I don't think I've actually seen "The Way to Eden" for a couple of decades now.

I caught this one out of context the first time I was exposed to it. One afternoon in summer 1993, I turned on the TV and I saw the hippies singing in protest. I didn't know anything about "The Way to Eden" in advance, so I was completely caught off-guard. Then I decided to go outside and enjoy the weather.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Greg,"Eden" is a lot of fun!

My elusive episode was "The Lights of Zetar", and the anecdote has become legend in my family:
http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2008/03/finally-i-see-lights-over-on-trekbbs.html

This question has been asked here a few times over the years, so the response is blogged for posterity.

 

[Orcus]

Even now, thirty-odd years after first watching what is now called TOS in the seventies, I have still not seen them all. I'm still waiting to see my last episode...

 

[BillJ]

Last new one would have to be "The Cage" when it aired on Pay-Per-View back in '86 or '87. Has it really been twenty plus years...

 

[I am not Spock]

For The World Is Hollow And i Have Touched The Sky. I loved it when I finally got to see it, though.

 

[Captain Robert April]

"Pay per view"? It aired for free just before TNG's second season started off, as a part of that tribute show Patrick Stewart hosted.

 

[Duane]

I somehow kept missing "Arena" when I saw the re-runs in the early 1970's. I had a book listing all the episodes so I knew it was out there, and I had read the James Blish short-story version, but I never caught the episode until I was a freshman in high school in 1979.

As I recall they started showing them in production order, so on that day I knew "Arena" would be showing. I was in a great mood that day and loved the episode.

 

[tomalak301]

I think it was "The Cage." Came last in the Season 3 DVD sets so that's probably a good reason.

 

[Hober Mallow]

"Trials and Tribble-ations."