What was the first STAR TREK episode you ever saw?
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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.
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.
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".
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".
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
A Time To Stand, the season 6 premiere of DS9.
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!
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!
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?
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?
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