What was the first episode you have ever watched?
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Me, too. I couldn't say what episodes, but they were on in the early afternoon before 1975 and I was 4 of 5 at the time. I loved the music. I think that's my first memory of Star Trek, the theme song.
That sounds awesome
Wow, you're really new to Trek then. Hope you continue to enjoy it!
Thanks, I am
The first one I can put a name to is "Spectre of the Gun" -- I discovered Star Trek while watching TOS reruns in hospital for 3 weeks. I was young (six or seven) at the time, so I didn't pay a lot of attention. Later I realized a friend of my mother's had all of the shows on VHS, and she let me watch them. The first one was a western, so it had to be "Spectre".
+1 on that for me, too.
For the rest of the other series', it was the pilot episodes, during first run.
TNG: Q Who, when it first aired in 1989. I had seen the Trek movies up until then, but at the tender age of 8, this episode scared the hell out of me. TNG: Identity Crisis (1991) was the next episode that sticks out in my mind, also creeping me out.
My first exposure to Star Trek of any kind was when I was very little and happened to walk into the room while my cousin was watching TWOK. I walked in during the Ceti eel scene. I didn't want to watch Star Trek after that.
My first real experience with Trek was seeing TVH in the theater, also with the same cousin. Afterward, I know I saw the other TOS movies on VHS, and probably TOS episodes in syndication, but I couldn't tell you anything specific.
My first recollection of seeing TNG on TV is "Up the Long Ladder." I can't say for sure that's the first episode I ever saw, but that's the one that stands out. And the reason it stands out is because I remember during the initial airing, they were running commercials for TFF.
My first real experience with Trek was seeing TVH in the theater, also with the same cousin. Afterward, I know I saw the other TOS movies on VHS, and probably TOS episodes in syndication, but I couldn't tell you anything specific.
My first recollection of seeing TNG on TV is "Up the Long Ladder." I can't say for sure that's the first episode I ever saw, but that's the one that stands out. And the reason it stands out is because I remember during the initial airing, they were running commercials for TFF.
I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation with my mother since before I can remember. However, my first distinct memory of Star Trek was finding a tape with "Star Trek" written on it. I remember asking my mother if it was ok to watch. She said yes and I put it in. I remember watching the Doomsday Machine and almost crying thinking Kirk wouldn't get beamed off the Constellation in time. The rest is history.
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I was thinking of you as I discovered Skippy was a cross-over actor between Star Trek and Fantasy Island, in another thread discussion.[/QUOTE]
I'm sort-of old school Trek. I have vague recollections of watching TOS with my Uncle Jerry, because when TAS came on, I recognized it immediately. I saw TAS every Saturday morning, from the beginning, and fell in love with Star Trek. At about the same time, our local station in Dayton, Ohio (channel 22, IIRC) began running TOS in syndication.
Since then, I have seen every movie and pilot (except DS9) on its original premiere date.
Me, too, except it was TAS.
I think my first episode was a rerun of TNG's "Interface." I think the first episode I watched when it first aired was the premiere of DS9's final season(I don't remember having difficulty following it even though I hadn't seen much if any of the first 6 seasons). Now I've watched every single episode of every Trek show(including TAS) and every Trek movie.
The first images I can remember are of the guy in Requiem for Methuselah and of the chicks in Spock's Brain.
That was back in the 70's when I was watching them with my older brothers.
It blew my little mind that he was immortal, and the chicks, well...they speak for themselves.
That was back in the 70's when I was watching them with my older brothers.
It blew my little mind that he was immortal, and the chicks, well...they speak for themselves.
I wish I could be absolutely certain which of the TOS episodes was my very first. I want to say is was "The Man Trap", but I can't say that for certain. I do have such vivid memories of being a small boy scared to death of the salt vampire, though.
Can't tell you the exact episode, but it was TOS and watched in the early seventies on a black-and-white TV.
This thread made me remember that the first TOS episode I saw (while visiting my Grandmother in Germany) was "Who Morns for Adonais?"...rather freaked me out at the time and I seem to also have very dim memories about a TAS episode where they visited an underwater civilization and got transformed into aquatic humanoids themselves or something?
That's the first TAS I saw, and to this day is still one of the few.
"The Man Trap", September 8, l966. Life changed for me too.
I'm comfortable with this.
This too.That just means we're old enough to know what we're talking about.
Another wonderful personal experience shared.
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