What was your first episode of Trek?

[Greg Cox]

TNG was helped by the relative lack of competition back then; it was the best SF series on-air.

Although I agree with you that it didn't have much competition (and it later seasons it was very good), to say that it was the best SF series on air without much competition isn't exactly good.

TNG was helped by the relative lack of competition back then; it was the best SF series on-air.

It arrived on TV not too long after more schlocky stuff like "V: The Series", which - although I never missed an episode - became more like "What critter will Diana swallow this week?"

From the UK, there was also the steady rise of the comedic "Red Dwarf". That show had become staple fare of the video room at "Star Trek" conventions.

Let me reformulate:
Star Trek was the best SF series among the ones that were received where I lived during the '90.

Well, it's true that the later shows faced more competition in the genre. I remember complaining to my girlfriend, while watching a particularly slow and talky episode of Voyager, that "you know, Xena would have killed ten people by now . . . ."

 

[DimesDan]

TNG was helped by the relative lack of competition back then; it was the best SF series on-air.

Although I agree with you that it didn't have much competition (and it later seasons it was very good), to say that it was the best SF series on air without much competition isn't exactly good.

TNG was helped by the relative lack of competition back then; it was the best SF series on-air.

It arrived on TV not too long after more schlocky stuff like "V: The Series", which - although I never missed an episode - became more like "What critter will Diana swallow this week?"

From the UK, there was also the steady rise of the comedic "Red Dwarf". That show had become staple fare of the video room at "Star Trek" conventions.

Let me reformulate:
Star Trek was the best SF series among the ones that were received where I lived during the '90.

Yes, all well and good, but you still are damning it with faint praise.

 

[ToddCam]

I have an in-box of PMs accusing me of the same "hidden agenda". Whatever that means. Some fans can't stand a "know-it-all", I guess.

Really? I have never gotten that sense from you, and I have been on this board for many years. I don't consider having knowledge to mean someone is a know-it-all. KRAD would often spout big lists and I never thought he was projecting that sort of arrogance, just being informative.

I like Christopher, and I think he writes some great stuff. But sometimes he just comes off as if he thinks he is smarter than everyone else. This is not to say that he does so intentionally. It's most often when he says things like, "Why are you even asking that question?" There are many times I agree with him and I find myself wondering why he can't just say it differently.

Either way, I don't think anyone has a "hidden agenda." Even the people who think Janeway is more important than their own mothers.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Really? I have never gotten that sense from you, and I have been on this board for many years. I don't consider having knowledge to mean someone is a know-it-all. KRAD would often spout big lists and I never thought he was projecting that sort of arrogance, just being informative.

It's also happened on an action figure listserv. Some fans get very angry about... who knows.

 

[Mooch]

My mom watched TOS all the time when i was young so I don't know what the first episode was. But I do remember the first TNG episode I saw on live TV was "Descent, Part 1".

The first DS9 episode I saw was "Q-Less".

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

I did see "Encounter at Farpoint" the first time it was on and I became hooked on Trek. Before that, I do remember watching a few TOS episodes with my Grandfather as a very young kid. Just not sure which ones?

 

[CNash]

I can't remember the first specific episode I watched, only that I knew it was Voyager, and I would have been perhaps 12 or 13 years old. I watched it on BBC2 (in the UK) when they were airing all three modern Trek series, alternating between the latest seasons of DS9 and Voyager, and showing reruns of TNG in the off-season. I know that my first episode of DS9 was the "Past Tense" two-parter, though.