Hmm. Maybe I'll have to give it second chance one day. I remember I hated it as a kid . . . .
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Hmm. Maybe I'll have to give it second chance one day. I remember I hated it as a kid . . . .
In the '70s and '80s, it seemed like the stations that showed the reruns in my area would give Season 3 short shrift; when they were getting into S3 they would change the time slot or something and start over at the beginning. I didn't really know anything about how many seasons or episodes there were until 1986, when I got a book called "The Star Trek Compendium" that was on sale in conjunction with the series' 20th anniversary. Then I found out there were two I hadn't seen: "The Cloudminders" and "The Lights of Zetar." I managed to see "Cloudminders" within a year or so, but couldn't catch "Lights" till around 1989. It's kind of funny to think, in today's full-season DVD and streaming video world, that I was twenty years old and had been watching a show most of my life before I saw all the episodes!
Once in a while I will have a dream that I'm seeing a "new" TOS episode for the first time.
--Justin
Once in a while I will have a dream that I'm seeing a "new" TOS episode for the first time.
--Justin
I was born 10 years after the show wrapped production. But my dad was a fan and I was raised on a steady diet of Star Trek and Perry Mason. Somehow though, after years of watching the show on various syndication runs (Star Trek was always on channel 12 KPTV here in the Portland Oregon area) I had never really seen "The Lights of Zetar." For a while in the 90's KPTV was running them every weeknight at 1:30 in the morning or something like that and I would set the VCR to tape them and then watch them the next day after school. They ran through all 79 episodes several times, but it seems like every time they aired LoZ something happened. I forgot to put in the tape, or there was something wrong with the VCR timer and I only got part of the show, once my mom didn't know I it was my tape in the machine and taped over it. anyhow, I never really got to watch it until years later when I bought the show on DVD.
I had a similar TNG experience. Somehow I had never seen "The Hunted" but all my friends had and kept talking about how it was their favorite episode. It was one of those shows that somehow was almost never aired in syndication on KPTV (they were too busy showing "Time's Arrow over and over and over. I still can barely watch that show just cause of over-exposure) Anyhow, I read all the Star Trek Encyclopedia entries for "The Hunted" and I seriously wanted to see it. I finally did once I got TNG on DVD.
What's left? I still haven't seen most of DS9 season 7. And a good 30% of Voyager. And only saw about ten or twelve episodes of Enterprise. Though I'm only interested in Season 4 of that show.
--Alex
I had a similar TNG experience. Somehow I had never seen "The Hunted" but all my friends had and kept talking about how it was their favorite episode. It was one of those shows that somehow was almost never aired in syndication on KPTV (they were too busy showing "Time's Arrow over and over and over. I still can barely watch that show just cause of over-exposure) Anyhow, I read all the Star Trek Encyclopedia entries for "The Hunted" and I seriously wanted to see it. I finally did once I got TNG on DVD.
What's left? I still haven't seen most of DS9 season 7. And a good 30% of Voyager. And only saw about ten or twelve episodes of Enterprise. Though I'm only interested in Season 4 of that show.
--Alex
For some reason, I always managed to miss The Return Of The Archons when it was shown. I finally got to see it when the VHS tapes were released.
This was well before that. It came free if you ordered a movie called "April Fool's Day".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090655/
So it had to be late '86/early '87.
I also grew up watching TOS on Channel 11 WPIX, so I had seen all of the episodes many times as a kid. I saw Roddenberry show The Cage in NYC in the 80's as well.
As a college student, I watched TNG faithfully but missed "The Child." I had to wait years and years to catch it in reruns. It wasn't really worth the wait, but it was exciting to finally see an episode that had eluded me.
As a college student, I watched TNG faithfully but missed "The Child." I had to wait years and years to catch it in reruns. It wasn't really worth the wait, but it was exciting to finally see an episode that had eluded me.
Other than the black-and-white workprint of "The Cage" that I saw when Roddenberry did a presentation at the U. of MD. in the mid-1970s, the last episode I saw "new" was "Obsession" sometime during the first or second syndicated run of the show in the DC market. Somehow I'd not only missed it on NBC but had been unaware that it existed! 
We reach!
Not counting "The Cage", as it never aired in the original syndication package, I knew about "Charlie X", but KOA 4(now KCNC 4) in Denver didn't run it very often, so I didn't see it for about ten years after first learning about it.
I recall Channel 4 always ran them in production order, so it was pretty easy to figure out which episode was coming up or when it was gonna come around again.
Great to see you here, Mr. Okuda!
I'm curious... most of us out here have been watching Trek from the outside. But for the majority of Trek produced in the modern era, you've been on the inside as it was being created. With that being the case, could you still sit down and watch an episode of TNG or DS9 or whatever as they aired and still enjoy it as a fan, or did you always end up viewing it through the prism of being something you had seen being put together?
The only two episodes that I can recall not seeing, at some point during reruns, were "Where no man has gone before" and "The Omega Glory". I was finally able to catch these when SciFi started to show them again in the mid/late '90s. I missed a ton of TNG episodes and I think I have managed to see them all. I was in the army when it first aired, and missed the first 4-5 seasons and it was difficult to get into, late in the game. But, once getting caught up, I managed to see the episode with Data, meeting Lor for the first time and being shocked that I'd never seen it.
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