September 8th, 1966.
I was five years old.
I was five years old.
Nostalgia question: what year did you see your first TOS episode?
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Not sure exactly... but in Chicagoland, i believe it was on WGN channel 9, Tuesdays and Thursdays when i was 4 in 1977 or so. (Anyone older can correct me)
I was aware of it growing up. It must have been on in the background somewhere when I was younger. I'd been watching re-runs of TOS a couple of years before First Contact came out at the theater (which is what kicked off my deep dive into the rest of the franchise). So ... maybe 1995?
Unfortunately I don't know the exact date, but I know that it was pre-Star Wars, maybe by about a year or even two. I'd also love to know which ep it was, but that's unknowable. I'm pretty sure it was an S3 show.
Who remembers watching the first flight of the shuttle Enterprise?
I just realized that I was conflating the flight and the Star Trek cast seeing the shuttle at the rollout. Different days. The rollout was in September of 1976 and I think I only saw it in magazines. The flight was August 12th and I saw that on television.
I just realized that I was conflating the flight and the Star Trek cast seeing the shuttle at the rollout. Different days. The rollout was in September of 1976 and I think I only saw it in magazines. The flight was August 12th and I saw that on television.
Not only do I remember it, I remember unpacking and later repacking a crate filled with ceramic heat-shield tiles of the same kind which covered the shuttle. There had been a problem with some of them coming loose during the first few test flights of the Enterprise, and the people at Space Shuttle Division of Rockwell sent a bunch to my division, so that our mad scientists could develop a better adhesive to keep the tiles from coming unstuck.
Tiles were about 4-5 inches square by about 2 inches thick, and surprisingly light.
I watched it. My dad was a big NASA buff, I also watched moon missions with him as well, I think Apollo 15 is the earliest I can recall.
I remember the rollout, it was just on the news, then Johnny Carson made fun of it later on The Tonight Show.
Wow, both for "that's cool" and "you're much older than I thought you were".
I watched the rollout and the first launch. The Shuttle got kind of a bum reputation, but the problem wasn't so much the shuttle itself as the failure to build a 2nd generation shuttle in the 1990s taking advantage of what we learned from the 1970s shuttle design.
One of my friends at college was an aeronautical engineering major and there was a guest speaker from NASA (or maybe it was Rockwell) talking about the shuttle in general and the tile problem in particular. He passed around a broken tile. Yes, very light, almost like foam rubber. It was hard to believe it could work as a heat shield.
Well. We have a winner.
I first saw TOS (The Man Trap or The Cage… one of the two) when the BBC repeated it in the 1990s. I have a feeling it was The Man Trap I saw first, but also a boggling feeling that they broadcast The Cage before that…
I didn’t stick with it for long, then got into TOS proper about ten years later when it came out on DVD in the mid 00s.
I didn’t stick with it for long, then got into TOS proper about ten years later when it came out on DVD in the mid 00s.
Had a thought and went back to check the reprint dates in my collection of the Blish adaptations. Earliest reprint date was 1972. Sounds about right.
I saw it first in the late seventies. Can't recall the episode, but became a massive fan in the 80s thanks to WPIX in New York showing the show every night at midnight
Anyone know offhand when the Photonovels came out and how long they stayed in print? That might help me narrow this down.
I don't remember which episode it was, but we were a strictly b&w household until we put grandma in "the home" about 1973 and we inherited her Magnavox color console. I'm pretty sure I watched TAS in color as it premiered that fall.
I think the first two are dated November, 1977. The rest came out over the next year. Most of the first 6 were reprinted once, in 1979. By 1980, they were all gone from US bookstores.
By the mid-80's, convention vultures (uh, sorry, dealers) were asking 25 bucks a pop.
Thanks. Vultures indeed!
Yeah, by the time I had all the photonovels - which my parents kindly bought me at bookstores, not from "dealers" - I had already seen every ep many times. So your timeline is helpful and reinforces my recollection. I must have seen my first ep in about 1976. Man, I wish I knew which one it was! Given my deep love for S3 it has to have been one from that season, but I have no idea which one. One that wasn't too scary and had a lot of Scotty, I suspect. Maybe The Tholian Web.
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