It was the woman with no face for me.
What episodes do you most remember from watching Star Trek as a kid?
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"The Cloud Minders."
Mirror Mirror is my first Star Trek memory. I was five or six. I remember "Scotty" (anyone with a red shirt was Scotty) chasing Captain Kirk. OTOH, I apparently knew who Scotty was. No idea how.
I took a trip to my grandparent's house one winter maybe a year later and my mom bought me the Star Trek colorforms and we watched Star Trek every day on that trip. I remember What Are Little Girls Made Of, The Menagerie, Balance of Terror? (I might just be remembering the ship from the end credits), and POSSIBLY Space Seed, but the only thing I recall from that was Kirk in the decompression chamber.
I took a trip to my grandparent's house one winter maybe a year later and my mom bought me the Star Trek colorforms and we watched Star Trek every day on that trip. I remember What Are Little Girls Made Of, The Menagerie, Balance of Terror? (I might just be remembering the ship from the end credits), and POSSIBLY Space Seed, but the only thing I recall from that was Kirk in the decompression chamber.
I remember Where No Man Has Gone Before - watching it from my dad's apartment after my parents split. I still remember the original WPIX edits, before the mid-80's pre-cut episodes sent out by Paramount.
Vague memories of The Menagerie, because it was a "big two parter."
I remember sitting on my bike in front of my neighbor's house talking about seeing The Doomsday Machine the night before.
Vague memories of The Menagerie, because it was a "big two parter."
I remember sitting on my bike in front of my neighbor's house talking about seeing The Doomsday Machine the night before.
Trouble with Tribbles of course!
Star Trek V and "Journey to Babel" were my first exposure to TOS, thanks to Betamax. Probably 1990?
I can remember when the afterschool Star Trek reruns cycled through and picked up at the beginning again with Where No Man Has Gone Before in about 1972, and being all excited with the other 12-year-old nerds at school about the bridge getting trashed by the 'splodey stuff. Those were the days!
When i was a teen, it was on every day at 6pm. Then on holidays they would run marathons all weekend long i would be glued to them.
So i guess all of them!
So i guess all of them!
Was probably 10 or 12 saw “arena” was, and is to this day my fav.
I don't have a lot of memories about my biological father. He shipped out to live with another woman and divorced my mother when I was quite young. One of the very few, but vague, memories I have of him is watching I, Mudd with him.
Patterns of Force. I was also sure as a child that there was another nazi episode at one time with a look alike of Kirk in a black uniform. A snivelling, cowardly officer once the Enterprise crew got hold of him but after becoming Trek mad in the winter of 1978 I discovered no such episode and realised my memories from 1973 were not authenticated.
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Scary moments in Trek I have many. It was a sci- fi horror series when you think of it and none of the other spin offs have ever had the same vibe.
Gary Mitchell and his eyes, the faceless woman in Charlie X, the anthropoid that Pike sees when holding the Keeper, the Gorn when he first turns to the camera, the Denevan splodges and their murmurings, Kirk's apparent death in Amok Time, Shras the Andorian ambassador, the old corpse in the Deadly Years, Gorgon in his spaghetti faced mode, the Zetarian lights plus the screaming woman at the complex and the dead alien who looked like Frankenstein's monster are my nightmarish memories from those times but nowadays it's less of a shock except I still wait for the Gorn to emerge from the darkness with a great joy if I see Arena.
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Gary Mitchell and his eyes, the faceless woman in Charlie X, the anthropoid that Pike sees when holding the Keeper, the Gorn when he first turns to the camera, the Denevan splodges and their murmurings, Kirk's apparent death in Amok Time, Shras the Andorian ambassador, the old corpse in the Deadly Years, Gorgon in his spaghetti faced mode, the Zetarian lights plus the screaming woman at the complex and the dead alien who looked like Frankenstein's monster are my nightmarish memories from those times but nowadays it's less of a shock except I still wait for the Gorn to emerge from the darkness with a great joy if I see Arena.
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Watching on syndication in the late 1980s (KCOP in LA around 10:00PM IIRC):
Balance of Terror destroying Romulan Bird of Prey (Romulans have BoP have honor, not Klingons!), Fight with Spock in Amok Time (those weapons were cool and Spock should have kept them in his quarters to use now and then) and Khan in Space Seed ("could be some dust." and "I have five times your strength" before he gets beat down with the handle from engineering).
Balance of Terror destroying Romulan Bird of Prey (Romulans have BoP have honor, not Klingons!), Fight with Spock in Amok Time (those weapons were cool and Spock should have kept them in his quarters to use now and then) and Khan in Space Seed ("could be some dust." and "I have five times your strength" before he gets beat down with the handle from engineering).
Yeah that was apparently from Michael Dorn?
The TOS Klingons are all vile. Even Kang, who was probably the best of the TOS Klingons, was still perfectly content to turn off life support and kill Kirk without fighting him. Kor had no real redeemable qualities in TOS. Kras was equally dishonorable. Koloth was slimy like a used car salesman with a warship.
It's hard to really judge the TOS Romulans on the few examples we got, as the Balance of Terror Commander seemed unusually honourable (his crew weren't all that great and his bosses ordered him to do a sneak attack to see if it was worth starting a war).
On the other hand, we got more than enough of the TNG Klingons to judge them, and they're so corrupt that Worf had to kill basically everyone who wanted to take power, including Duras, Gowron, Lursa and B'Etor (with Toral barely escaping with his life).
So I wouldn't say that they were switched exactly, they just got more complicated and three-dimensional the more we saw of them.
On the other hand, we got more than enough of the TNG Klingons to judge them, and they're so corrupt that Worf had to kill basically everyone who wanted to take power, including Duras, Gowron, Lursa and B'Etor (with Toral barely escaping with his life).
So I wouldn't say that they were switched exactly, they just got more complicated and three-dimensional the more we saw of them.
The only episodes I saw as a kid were the first run of the original series on NBC. In September 1965, I was eight. I remember all of them, because I saw all of them and because they returned in syndication when I was in my teens. We also had the first color TV in the neighborhood. My dad bought it to watch sports in 1962. As a bonus, I got to watch Star Trek when it first aired in color. When all the episodes of the syndicated series first aired (TNG, DS9, Voy, Enterprise), I was no longer a kid.
I began watching TOS around 1975 when WAAY in Huntsville, AL, started showing it in 5-day-a-week syndication. I think the first episode I ever saw was "The City on the Edge of Forever", but the one I remember most vividly was "Spock's Brain"; I laughed so hard at the line "'Brain' and 'brain'! What is 'brain'!?"
Anyway, TOS is still my favorite Trek series,
Anyway, TOS is still my favorite Trek series,
Arena, Where No Man, Let That Be Your Last, Day of The Dove etc Day and Arena were always favourites of mine.
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