What show brought you to Star Trek?
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I remember begging my folks to let me stay up late when I was a child to watch "Day of the Dove." This was first run. I distinctly remember the promo for it. Which means my parents were watching "Specter of the Gun" that night--so that would have been October 1968. And I'm sure that I got to stay up to see DaotD,
But like so many others here I got hooked in my teens in the 70s, in late night syndication. WPIX, channel 11 NYC. I remember the first time I saw an episode that wasn't butchered in syndication (some time in the late 80s I think)--that was "Mirror, Mirror." Do you know that for years I had never seen the scene of the Mirror Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and Uhura, you know, being savages on the main universe's Enterprise? But I guess that was so with most of us 70s types.
But like so many others here I got hooked in my teens in the 70s, in late night syndication. WPIX, channel 11 NYC. I remember the first time I saw an episode that wasn't butchered in syndication (some time in the late 80s I think)--that was "Mirror, Mirror." Do you know that for years I had never seen the scene of the Mirror Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and Uhura, you know, being savages on the main universe's Enterprise? But I guess that was so with most of us 70s types.
TOS. I was five years old in '66, and I already loved this show.
TOS in reruns. I loved TOS, so many fond memories of pre internet days fandom. None of my Trek friends from that time watch any of it now, or even watch TOS any more. I think it's thought of as kind of weird I am still into Star Trek, but of course TOS was the first love of a lifelong interest in alt.worlds.
I voted TOS, but it might actually be a tie between TOS and TNG. I was born in '84. My parents taped the TNG episodes for me when they first aired, but we also had some of the TOS episodes on VHS, as well as the movies. I can't really remember which one came first as far as being exposed to it. but it didn't really matter to me at the time. When the Sci-Fi Channel started airing the TOS episodes is when I really got going with the Trek obsession. Holy cow, did I love that show. Still do.
TOS reruns in the mid-80s. I like the whole franchise to a greater or lesser extent, but my favorites are DS9 and ENT. I'm currently watching TNG, which I like quite a lot. VOY is rather meh for me, probably because I don't really like any of the characters except Kes, and look what happened to her...
