Stuff you 'remember' wrongly........

[Christopher]

I had been a Trekker for 30 years before finally registering that the episode was named "The Cloud Minders" and not "The Cloud Miners". That realization was a Twilight Zone moment, lol.

Whoa, i thought it WAS Miners... after all this time I learned something new!

But the miners were down on the ground. The people in the clouds didn't do any mining, and were scornful of the whole profession. So "The Cloud Miners" wouldn't really make sense as a title.

 

[QuasarVM]

I dunno...

I think when I was wee tike, I though the buttheads (Vians) in The Empath were the same buttheads (Talosians) as in The Cage...

But what's worse is -- I had a friend who pronounced the title "ULTimate Computer" as "UT(Yoo)ilmate Computer"...

 

[Kryton]

I had been a Trekker for 30 years before finally registering that the episode was named "The Cloud Minders" and not "The Cloud Miners". That realization was a Twilight Zone moment, lol.

Whoa, i thought it WAS Miners... after all this time I learned something new!

But the miners were down on the ground. The people in the clouds didn't do any mining, and were scornful of the whole profession. So "The Cloud Miners" wouldn't really make sense as a title.

But as an ironic twist it would have been quite sharp, really...and even as a metaphor it works. What do you get when you mine a cloud? The silver lining? Nope...just condensed moisture. An ultimately fruitless endeavor...a very apt description of the society of that planet at the time, really.

 

[Trekwatcher]

Then there's the opposite............

seeing something early in syndication and later after they had made deeper cuts---thinking you imagined it.

When they finally came on VHS un-cut in the 80s I was like, "yes, I knew I didn't dream that!"

This happened to my brother and I all the time. There were bits we remembered from the early 1970's but did not see for years when the episodes started to get trimmed until a PBS station in the late 1980's began showing unedited TOS episodes. I.e.: For years, I swore that there was a few seconds of Matt Decker running around on the ENT on his way to the shuttlecraft deck after his fight with the security guard. When I saw this scene again in about 1988 I almost fell on the floor!

 

[Igni Ferroque]

I got into TOS when I was really little - five or six, I think; my dad introduced me to it. I think at one point I must have started watching The Tholian Web and stopped or gotten distracted in the middle, because for the longest time I thought that Kirk died and that was the last episode. -blush-
By the time I was about twelve, I managed to work up the courage to watch it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that everything turned out quite all right. (Good thing, too; the ending always manages to make me smile.)

 

[Kryton]

But did you open his final orders?

 

[Anticitizen]

Due to the crappy tint that my parent's TV apparently had at the time, I thought that the Enterprise-D was a brownish-beige in color, not grey.

Now, what's funny, is seeing Christopher's avatar in this very thread:

That's about the color I remember seeing the Ent-D as on that old TV.

 

[Tan Ru]

Not really an incorrect memory, but rather a youthful misconception:

I had once thought that the Klingons were called Klingons because their ships were designed to "cling on" to Federation ships in order to board, attack and seize them. (hehe...)

And yet I never saw it happen on-screen.......DUH.

(Hey! What did I know?? I was twelve!)

Look at their designs, it could happen!

I know, I know. Now it now looks like the ships are having sex.) EEWWWWWW!!

 

[OmahaStar]

No idea what episode, but I remember watching one that had a long, long, long pink or purple hallway, on whatever planet they were on, definitely not on a ship. Spock or someone was wearing a cape, and I remember whoever it was opening a door and walking down the long long hallway and it seemed like it was at least 200 feet long, maybe longer.

I must have been about 3 or 4 years old when I saw it.

I've seen every episode since then (who hasn't? lol) and have never come across that scene again, and all the hallways are pretty short.

 

[Captain Robert April]

"The Return of the Archons"

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x21/thereturnofarchons_574.jpg

 

[Christopher]

Due to the crappy tint that my parent's TV apparently had at the time, I thought that the Enterprise-D was a brownish-beige in color, not grey.

The E-D was actually azure, not grey. Andy Probert gave it that color as an homage to TOS episodes where, due to color-correction errors in certain FX shots, the grey-hulled Enterprise appeared greenish or bluish. But in TNG, ironically, the E-D was initially lit so darkly that you couldn't see its azure hue, and later on it tended to be color-corrected so that it appeared grey!

I had once thought that the Klingons were called Klingons because their ships were designed to "cling on" to Federation ships in order to board, attack and seize them. (hehe...)

And yet I never saw it happen on-screen.......DUH.

Well, it kinda did happen onscreen once, in TAS: "The Time Trap," except it was the other way around from what you showed:

http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x12/thetimetrap_115.JPG

 

[Therin of Andor]

I had once thought that the Klingons were called Klingons because their ships were designed to "cling on" to Federation ships

You never saw "The Time Trap" episode of TAS?

Kor's and Kirk's ships were bolted together!

 

[Jonas Grumby]

After Star Trek was cancelled after its initial network run (and I, therefore, having only been able to view each episode twice, at most) I had to survive solely on the Blish adaptations, which I didn't realize at the time had so many differences from the aired versions. The Blish books were the only Star Trek I had for quite some time, and when syndicated reruns of the show finally did become available to me, I was confused at first as to why the show was now different from what I was sure I remembered seeing the first time around.

 

[SonicRanger]

I think when I was wee tike, I though the buttheads (Vians) in The Empath were the same buttheads (Talosians) as in The Cage...

Actually, the Star Trek trading cards from the 25th anniversary or so made this same mix-up. I remember seeing an ad for them, and a card with the Vians was labelled as Talosians.

 

[Tan Ru]

I had once thought that the Klingons were called Klingons because their ships were designed to "cling on" to Federation ships

You never saw "The Time Trap" episode of TAS?

Kor's and Kirk's ships were bolted together!

oh wow!! I forgot all about THAT!!

I have seen (and own) that TAS episode however.

The E was playing pitcher there though.

 

[Jimmy_C]

When I was a kid, I thought TMP was the pilot and all the episodes occurred between TMP and TWOK. I also "remembered" the Reliant hitting the Enterprise's engine support instead of just missing it.

 

[Trevacious]

I know, I know. Now it now looks like the ships are having sex.) EEWWWWWW!!

Haha, looks like she was made for mounting.

Then there's the opposite............

seeing something early in syndication and later after they had made deeper cuts---thinking you imagined it.

When they finally came on VHS un-cut in the 80s I was like, "yes, I knew I didn't dream that!"

Yeah, like this Kirk and McCoy exchange from Mirror Mirror: McCoy notices Kirk's split lip and says, "What's this?" and Kirk says, "It's called, 'Blood'."

And it's just gotten worse over the years. I saw the Remastered version of Doomsday Machine and they left out the best line! "Vulcans never bluff."

 

[AdmiralGarak]

I know, I know. Now it now looks like the ships are having sex.) EEWWWWWW!!

Haha, looks like she was made for mounting.

We all joke, despite literally having an episode of TNG where a pregnant Enterprise gives birth to a baby starship.

 

[gomtuu20]

Me too. And I am old enough to have seen Trek air in prime time in its original run.

 

[gomtuu20]

I know, I know. Now it now looks like the ships are having sex.) EEWWWWWW!!

Haha, looks like she was made for mounting.

Then there's the opposite............

seeing something early in syndication and later after they had made deeper cuts---thinking you imagined it.

When they finally came on VHS un-cut in the 80s I was like, "yes, I knew I didn't dream that!"

Yeah, like this Kirk and McCoy exchange from Mirror Mirror: McCoy notices Kirk's split lip and says, "What's this?" and Kirk says, "It's called, 'Blood'."

And it's just gotten worse over the years. I saw the Remastered version of Doomsday Machine and they left out the best line! "Vulcans never bluff."

WHAT!? Remastered left that line out!? Are you serious? Why would they do that?