What was the first STAR TREK episode you ever saw?

Of course it was...which is why I responded gently and not assholeishly (if I may be allowed to use a silly, made-up word).

 

I recall seeing an episode of TAS when I was very young -- 6ish -- and can someone help me out here by telling me if there was ever an episode of TAS where this happens: Kirk and party are on a planet's surface and are following a signpost's direction arrow. When they pass out of frame, the signpost descends into the ground and re-emerges, pointing the other direction.

I've been trying to clear this up for years -- is there an episode like that, or did I make it up in my mind?

Anyway, the first episode I clearly remember is the TNG Episode "Identity Crisis." I was maybe 8 at this point. That episode terrified me -- the blue alien Geordi was turning into, of course, was frightening, but for some reason I was REALLY chilled to the bones when he's in the holodeck piecing together the footage of the away mission, and the computer creates that clay-looking sculpture of a man out of nowhere. My 8-year-old self was pretty creeped out, but then I was a bit sheltered.

 

TAS - "BEM" when I was about five or six in reruns on Nickelodeon.

TOS - "A Piece of the Action" about four months after BEM. Rerun on local WXIN-59 (now the Fox affilliate) at 5 PM. Watched daily M-F.

TNG - "Too Short a Season" during the hiatus reruns of TNG's first season. Again on WXIN, aired Saturday nights at 7 PM.

DS9 - "Emmissary" First run... never missed a first-run DS9 episode until the fifth season when I moved to a congregation where I couldn't get cable and where rabbit ears wouldn't bring in the signal. Again on WXIN.

VOY - "Caretaker" First run on UPN affilliate WTTV-4. Began missing first run episodes in the second season, and I didn't much care for the show.

ENT - "Broken Bow" Never missed a first-run episode. UPN affilliate was, at that time, WNDY-23.

 

A friend had turned on the tv and briefly pointed his favorite show. To be specific, it was the scene from "The Mind's Eye" where LaForge casually kills O'Brien. Of course, I had absolutely no idea what the heck was going on, but the scene stuck with me.

It must have been a rerun, since the show started its fifth season when I started watching reguarly a few weeks later.

I couldn't begin to say what my first TOS episode was. DS9, ENT, and TAS were the pilot episodes. Voyager was "Time & Again".

 

You're probably thinking of the animated episode, "Once Upon A Planet"

 

The first episode I ever remember watching was "Where Silence Has Lease"

 

The first Star Trek I watched was Star Trek: Generations on TV sometime in 1996. Surprisingly, I kept watching

I then started watching Voyager and DS9 that year, while watching TNG and TOS in syndicated repeats.

 

TOS "Shore Leave" A video from the $2 shop

 

'The Ultimate Computer'

I was probably about five or six, watched it in my mother's friends house, I'd be lying if i said i understood what was going on, I just knew it was exciting. Star Trek III came next at the Cinema with my Grandad, and that was me hooked for life.

 

Amok Time, on a black and white Zenith TV, 1967, KROC-TV, Rochester, MN

 

Unsure, but the first I REMEMBER seeing was 'Savage Curtain' in 1970.

 

The very first episode, first run, original tv. I was just a kid. My dad was a NASA engineer. Our neighbor down the street was a physicist there as well. We got together to watch it. The wives disappeared somewhere. My mother could never stand looking at Mr. Spock and his ears! I adored them on the other hand! (My mother and I never agreed about anything.)
I lived Star Trek and recorded it on an audio recorder. Remember, this was way before VHS.

 

I may have watched earlier episodes, but the first episode I distinctly remember seeing was "Miri". I was just a young pup in 1966 and the episode kind of freaked me out.

 

^ And now you're a GRUP!

 

The first ep I can ever remember seeing was "The Corbomite Maneuver" when it first aired on BBC1 in the early 70's (I think it was 1973, but I'm not 100% certain) - the Balok puppet creeped me out somewhat, but then I was only 6 at the time

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A Time To Stand, the season 6 premiere of DS9.

 

"The Corbomite Maneuver." I was young enough to think you had to crouch like that whenever transporting, and remember incorporating that belief while playing Star Trek in the backyard.

 

My parents watched it as I was growing up...so practically from infancy.

My first real memory though is of Capt. Pike's face freaking me out in The Menagerie. That was on KPTV-12 in Portland, OR, by the way.

I find it kind of funny that a number of us who were exposed to ST at a young ager were originally scared/freaked out by some element but continued to watch anyway!

 

I think it was Devil in the Dark or Arena. I can't really remember which but those episodes seem to be my earliest memories of Trek.

 

It was some TOS episode, back when I was 8 or 9 in 92-93. I'm not sure what it was, but my Dad was watching it, so the rest of the family was. I definately remember watching Operation: Annihilate! and Amok Time when I was younger. I watched the end of TWOK randomly at some point and was convinced that Spock had died for good.

It's not until 94 when TNG was ending that I got into it more heavily when my cousin was watching it and DS9. I think it was 96 when I was becoming a total nerd and the 30th anniversary stuff was happening. I finally found out what really happened to Spock. I thought the other films happened first.

Was I ever that young?