What was your first episode of Trek?

[PKS8304]

Well that thread about the books yesterday was fun so I thought I would put this out there.

While Im sure when I was young I sat through a handful of Classic Trek repeats with my brother and cousins, I have no clear memory of those.

The first episode of Trek I remember sitting down and watching was season 6 episode of TNG: The Chase.

That week following our local station picked up repeats of TNG starting with Encounter at Farpoint and I was hooked, watching repeats during the week and the rest of season 6 and then season 7 on saturday nights. By the time All Good Tihngs aired I was was completely caught up and had watched a good chunk of TOS, I was also into DS9 and I think Voyager was just starting.

 

[Christopher]

My first episode was "The Corbomite Maneuver," which I saw on January 9, 1974 when I was five and a half years old.

 

[Greg Cox]

I can't remember that far back! Some early episode of TOS, I imagine. Maybe "The Man Trap" or "The Corbomite Maneuver."

 

[Deranged Nasat]

The first Trek I ever saw was a few minutes of what I later knew to be Datalore. My very first Trek character was the snowflake . I had no idea what I was watching and quickly lost interest.

My first full episode was Voyager season six: "Riddles". For a 10 year old watching it without knowledge of the wider Trek universe, it was very creepy and atmospheric. Those cloaked Ba'Neth...all around them...

I started watching regularly the next year, so Voyager season seven I consider my first true Trek experience (that is, watching it knowing what I was watching). I also caught whatever TNG reruns the channel happened to be showing, so I got a fairly decent scattering of Picardness along with the regular Janewayity. Between them, they got me hooked, and that led me to the books and the DVD collections.

Watching Voyager as a child was fun, because I actually got caught up in the excitement. There was actually a sense of danger to it, because I was too young to understand that nobody would ever actually die. I didn't watch much TV, you see...

 

[Sho]

The first ep I consciously watched in full was TOS' "The Changeling", probably around age 6 or 7. I had seen glimpses of other TOS eps and TAS before, though, notably I remember impressions of the crew acting strangely in "This Side of Paradise", "Operation: Annihilate!"'s flying parasites and talk of Spock's inner eyelids, also in that episode. But it was to be a space probe named Nomad that would keep my attention.

Given that, and, to recap, the first book being the TNG Tech Manual, I wonder if it's coincidence I ended up becoming a software developer?

I really started watching Trek consistently and became a fan with TNG though, which was on German TV in the afternoon just when I got home from school. So for a number of years I actually watched TNG five days a week directly after school, which kept it constantly on my mind and was very formative.

 

[Ian Keldon]

My first Trek episode would have been an ep of the Animated Series. I don't remember which one, but it's one of my earliest memory of watching TV.

 

[Defcon]

No idea. All I know is that I saw TOS when I was relatively young.

 

[Brikar99]

"Encounter at Farpoint," at my father's insistence, on the night it premiered.

 

[Sho]

Thinking about it some more, the first TNG ep might have been "The Interface".

I think how I got started on TNG was via my father. His company's offices were one house over, and I'd occassionally swing by when I arrived home. He had a small TV in the office, generally just for background noise while laboring, but I noticed him having TNG on once or twice and paying more attention than usual. Wanting to connect with him through the shared experience I scheduled watching it myself the next day. I ended up catching "The Interface" at home and brought it up later that evening. To my delight he had watched it too, though I ended up defending what I thought was a fascinating portrayal of technology - he thought the ep was a poorly structured stinker. Well, we were both right .

These are precious memories, as my dad died a few years later. Thanks for making me recall them!

 

[F. King Daniel]

I was about 4, and my Trekkie mother insisted I watch TNG when it premiered in the UK. Then came the TOS movies on video and TV, all out of sequence, starting with V. It look me years to see them all!

So, it's all Mum's fault.

 

[Trekker82]

"Time's Arrow" Part 1. From there I got hooked and watched Trek from TOS on up.

 

[sfroth]

One of my earliest memories is seeing Star Trek 3 in the theaters. My parents loved the original series, and I basically grew up on the movies and TNG.

 

[Peter Q Taggart]

Earliest memories from about '72 or so was seeing a scene from "The Menagerie" (when Pike is choking the Talosian/beast) at a relative's house on Halloween and "Mirror, Mirror" at my grandparent's house on a Sunday afternoon.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Hmmm hard to remember now but had to be either "Space Seed" or "This Side of Paradise."

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I saw the end of A Taste of Armageddon, and I saw the beginning of Space Seed, but the first complete episode I saw was The Devil in the Dark. All in strip syndication, on KCOP-TV.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

First episode was most of a rerun of Survivors. I know it was a rerun because this was in the spring of 1992, around the time I was finishing 6th grade. I still remember that first view of the forest that caught my attention while channel surfing. Didn't really watch regularly until later, i think, so I have no idea what the first full episode was. ETA It's possible it was The Offspring, but I'm not sure.

i know I was waiting for DS9 to premier, and caught Emissary from beginning to end.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

I watched TAS during its network run on NBC Saturday mornings (I was in junior high school). My first episode of live-action Trek was "City on the Edge of Forever" in syndication circa 1975.

 

[JD]

I'm a second generation Trekkie, who was born 2 weeks before TNG premiered so I think I've pretty much been watching Trek since I was born. I honestly don't remember seeing any one specific episode first, I just remember always watching Trek.

 

[donners22]

The Corbomite Maneuver is the first one I remember seeing, but I'm sure there were episodes before that.

I really got into Trek lit before the shows; I actually mispronounced several characters' names because I'd read rather than heard them.

It was Q-Squared which really got me into Trek, though I didn't appreciate it properly until I'd seen a lot of episodes.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Cloud Minders in the early 1970's, before TAS first aired.