"Lost" Episode?

[Michael]

Inspired by YYZ's thread over at the TNG forum, I asked myself: What are your missing or lost episodes? So this question is mainly for people who have seen all episodes of a series, but didn't come around to see a certain episode for a long period of time. Or is there still an episode you haven't seen?

For me it was TOS' "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky". When I finally saw it it almost felt like a gift. Somehow this episode now holds a special place in my heart. Another one was TNG's "The Vengeance Factor" which was just a great disappointment.

To be honest, there are still two or three episodes of Voyager I missed. I'm looking forward to watch them, finally.

 

[HoundDog]

Well, as I've already mentioned in another thread, I haven't seen TAS in the original version.

 

[greenmystik]

I haven't seen any ENT at all. I watched the first episode then lost track because I didn't have a TiVo at the time. I've caught an episode here and there, but for all the flack it gets I thought it looked promising. I can't wait to get the DVD set.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Inspired by YYZ's thread over at the TNG forum, I asked myself: What are your missing or lost episodes?

For the longest time, my elusive TOS episode was always "The Lights of Zetar". Finally, it was advertised as airing on a Sunday afternoon in the 80s, when a group of us Star Trek fans were committed to dressing in Starfleet uniform to sell food at a "Doctor Who" function that was being filmed for a TV news segment.

I set up the VCR and we set off for the event. We finished much earlier than expected and I arrived home, still dressed as an Andorian, with just minutes to spare before the episode began. Since I was now home to watch (and tape it), I had to switch tapes and line up the new one at the proper place. Breathlessly, I collapsed into a chair just as the episode started.

Suddenly, a carload of unexpected relatives arrived!

My mother let them in, and was asking who wanted tea and coffee, just as the camera on TV was panning the dead researchers of Memory Alpha - and there were two dead Andorians lying on the floor! Now, I'd read the "Star Trek Concordance" many times, but Bjo Trimble had never mentioned there were Andorians in that episode! So I was getting quite excited.

My relatives, who knew I was an avid fan, just stood there, shaking their heads sadly.

"We knew he liked Star Trek," they said, "but we had no idea he got dressed up just to watch the episodes..."

 

[Michael]

^ Nice anecdote, Therin.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The last episode of unseen TOS for me was "The Empath" in 1987. Ugh. I haven't watched it again since.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The last episode of unseen TOS for me was "The Empath" in 1987. Ugh. I haven't watched it again since.

Actually, that episode aired here in Sydney in the late 80s and got a wonderful review in the press. They said that it was the TOS episode that hadn't aged much, due to most of it being filmed on a sparse, darkened soundstage. An almost "Twilight Zone" episode.

 

[Geck]

Well, for TOS there are still 8 or 10 I haven't seen yet. Though I just saw Conscience of the King for the first time on Thursday. Haven't seen any of TAS.

From TNG I'm still missing The Loss (no big loss, from what I understand), and the Birthright two-parter, of which I've only seen the opening 15 minutes or so.

For DS9, there are a few episodes from the first two seasons that have eluded me (it didn't start airing in my market until S3): Vortex, Dramatis Personae, Melora, and The Wire, though I've seen part of the last one.

Voyager...I've seen all of the first two seasons, except Meld. From seasons 3-7 there are probably about 15-20 shows I haven't seen. Honestly I have a hard time remembering what I have and have not seen from Voyager.

And finally from ENT, I've only seen about a dozen shows total. Just never got into it like the others.

 

[Forbin]

I'm sure there are some Voyager episodes I missed, but I really couldn't care less.
Any time the TVGuide blurb had the words "Doctor" or "Holodeck" in it, I didn't bother watching it.

 

[Spider]

I've seen every single episode of TOS and ENT. There are still one or two TNG episodes with Lwaxana Troi that I haven't had the stomach to watch through to the end. I believe I've missed about half or more of DS9 and VOY.

There should be a catagory of episodes that you wished you have missed though. I'd have a lot more to put in that bucket.

 

[JiNX-01]

Inspired by YYZ's thread over at the TNG forum, I asked myself: What are your missing or lost episodes?

For the longest time, my elusive TOS episode was always "The Lights of Zetar". Finally, it was advertised as airing on a Sunday afternoon in the 80s, when a group of us Star Trek fans were committed to dressing in Starfleet uniform to sell food at a "Doctor Who" function that was being filmed for a TV news segment.

I set up the VCR and we set off for the event. We finished much earlier than expected and I arrived home, still dressed as an Andorian, with just minutes to spare before the episode began. Since I was now home to watch (and tape it), I had to switch tapes and line up the new one at the proper place. Breathlessly, I collapsed into a chair just as the episode started.

Suddenly, a carload of unexpected relatives arrived!

My mother let them in, and was asking who wanted tea and coffee, just as the camera on TV was panning the dead researchers of Memory Alpha - and there were two dead Andorians lying on the floor! Now, I'd read the "Star Trek Concordance" many times, but Bjo Trimble had never mentioned there were Andorians in that episode! So I was getting quite excited.

My relatives, who knew I was an avid fan, just stood there, shaking their heads sadly.

"We knew he liked Star Trek," they said, "but we had no idea he got dressed up just to watch the episodes..."

That is fantastic!!

As to the original post: I haven't seen all of the TAS episodes.

 

[Defcon]

I still haven't seen Patterns of Force.

It never aired on Free TV in Germany and since I don't have the DVD's and somehow managed to miss every airing of it while I had PayTV for a time it remains the only live-action episode I haven't seen yet.

I haven't seen much of TAS, only some of the heavily edited episodes that aired here in Germany.

 

[WillsBabe]

4 TOS episodes were banned in the UK for a long time. It wasn't until VHS came out that I got to see them - some 20 years after they'd been made. So, they were lost episodes for me for a long time. Other lost episodes were Return of the Archons, which I never got to see for a long time, and after that, That Which Survivies. I was a fan in the days that if you missed an episode or never saw it that was pretty much the way it stayed.

I would love there to be a TNG episode that I came across that I managed not to see, but alas, I know it's not the case. The closest I came was Symbiosis, when I watched up to the opening credits before realising what the episode was. For a few moments I thought I'd found a lost TNG episode.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Although I've seen every episode, there was a documentary made around the time of Voyager's launch that I've been trying to see for years. It never reached British shores. Similar in style to the ones shown when DS9 began (hosted by Terry Farrell) and TNG ended (with Jonathan Frakes). Bob Picardo did this one, in character as the Holographic Doctor.

It can't be any worse than Ultimate Trek, with that guy off Seinfield pretending to be Kirk... That has got to be the worst programme with a Star Trek logo slapped on it.

 

[HoundDog]

I still haven't seen Patterns of Force.

It never aired on Free TV in Germany and since I don't have the DVD's and somehow managed to miss every airing of it while I had PayTV for a time it remains the only live-action episode I haven't seen yet.

I haven't seen much of TAS, only some of the heavily edited episodes that aired here in Germany.

I watched "Patterns of Force" in University - it was a course about the development of TV-shows, and the lecturer was a huge Trek-fan and couldn't stop talking about the importance of Star Trek for the development of television....

 

[Michael]

^ Wow. I'd like to have a lecturer like that.

 

[ladyheather69]

I have seen all of TOS, TNG and DS9.

Missed a TON of Voyager and most of ENT. I am still waiting for those prices to drop on the series dvds for me to see all of them.

I haven't seen but one or two of the TAS series

 

[HoundDog]

^ Wow. I'd like to have a lecturer like that.

Although not very well acclaimed, the University of Bremen has its advantages.

Btw, great avatar. What film/series is it from? 70s-Columbo?

 

[Defcon]

^ Wow. I'd like to have a lecturer like that.

Although not very well acclaimed, the University of Bremen has its advantages.

Btw, great avatar. What film/series is it from? 70s-Columbo?

No, it isn't but that are the exact same guesses we made when he entered it to the TNG Avatar contest. It's Police Squad (I think the German name was Die nackte Pistole(?)).

 

[Michael]

^ Yeah, that's right. The German title is "Die nackte Pistole". Not quite sure when this was shown on German television. I just know it from pay TV and now I own the DVD (there were only six episodes). They always had this running joke at the beginning of the episode where a supposed "special guest star" was introduced, but was actually never part of the episode. I think this one with William Shatner is quite funny.

Btw, great avatar.

Thank you.