Your Final "New" (to You) Episodes?

[cultcross]

Was that the one where Dr. Crusher was kidnapped by rebels?

Yeah. There's a line in it about the Irish Troubles which was a little ill advised, hence the ban.

 

[J.T.B.]

Last TOS was "Lights of Zetar" in 1988, age 18, after trying for almost two years to catch the rerun on the local station.

 

[Admiral Shran]

For DS9, VOY and ENT it was the final episode of each series, as I had to wait for the DVDs and the binge watching to see most of those episodes. My cable provider back in the day stopped carrying Trek and so I had to stop watching. DS9's "The Darkness and the Light" was the last one I saw of that show. For VOY is was "Fair Trade". I had to wait to see ANY episode of ENT on DVD.

For TNG and TOS, however, I had to do the re-run thing. For TNG my last one was "The Vengeance Factor", a truly memorable one to be sure. For TOS was "Requiem for Methuselah", another classic.

 

[Tomalak]

Yeah. There's a line in it about the Irish Troubles which was a little ill advised, hence the ban.

It's really interesting watching after 9/11, where the American attitude to terrorism was rather changed. That show would never be written today. It's not very good, but it is definitely a unique product of the time.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The problem with High Ground's take on terrorism was the simplistic diagnosis. It approached the cause and solution to terrorism with the depth of an after school special about smoking.

 

[The Wormhole]

It's really interesting watching after 9/11, where the American attitude to terrorism was rather changed. That show would never be written today.

Ira Behr made a similar comment about DS9 and how they depicted terrorism as either heroic (in the case of the Bajorans) or with shades of gray (like the Maquis). You definitely couldn't do that today.

 

[RAMA]

That's less of a problem these days for sure. With TOS in reruns, I watched many of the episodes before the Compendium, so I wasn't sure what I had missed. The last 3 episodes of TOS I saw were Ultimate Computer, Tholian Web and The Cloud Minders. I also suppose on a technicality The Cage was the last episode we all saw when they had it in black and white OR the color version in 1988.

When Voyager came out we didn't get UPN here(right between two of the largest metropolitan viewing areas in the country. One was blacked out from NYC), so I had a friend record them 5 to a tape. Eventually they got enough complaints that they brought the channel to the lineup.

The only other episodes I missed or didn't record were 2 episodes of Enterprise.

RAMA

We've all been there. We've seen almost every single episode of a given series, whether TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, or ENT. But there is still one or two we missed. Somehow, some way. For a lot of us, this was because of the nature of the beast of reruns on television in the pre-DVD, pre-binge watching days. Now days new fans will never experience what it was to have spent years catching up on reruns like we had to!

So what was your final "new" episode (to you, anyway) of a given series?

I've no memory of what my last new (to me) TOS episode was, and TAS I only ever saw once it was out on DVD. But I remember for TNG, my last two episodes were "Lessons" and "Aquiel" - I know, such epic episodes to end on, right?! LOL. For DS9, years after I watched "What We Leave Behind" as it aired in June of 1999, I finally saw "Crossfire" from season 4 from 4-am daily reruns. For Voyager, it was season 1's "Cathexis" that was the last episode I'd missed from watching all of Voyager from season 4 onward. Enterprise, I saw all of as it aired so no missing links there.

What about you?

 

[BillJ]

I seriously don't know? I was in and out for all of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.

 

[RandyS]

Enterprise, "TATV".

May whatever, 2005.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

TNG 0721-Firstborn. Not sure how I missed this one, but caught part of it a couple months ago on BBCA.

Then I popped in the blu-ray to watch the whole thing. It wasn't so bad I would've blocked it out, so I don't know what happened.

 

[feek61]

I have seen all of the episodes of all of the series but the one that had the most impact was from TOS which was "Balance of Terror" (in re-runs in the very early 70s). What an amazing "last" episode.

This doesn't include of course the release of "The Cage" in the 80's or the original cut of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" that was release some years ago.

For the entire franchise it was "These are the Voyages" for me

 

[cultcross]

It's really interesting watching after 9/11, where the American attitude to terrorism was rather changed. That show would never be written today. It's not very good, but it is definitely a unique product of the time.

Indeed, that's a good point. During the Troubles, a lot of Brits felt, rightly or wrongly, that the US appeared to support the IRA and were apologists for their tactics, because they supported the Republican cause more broadly. That was a pretty sensitive subject in the 90s. I think the portrayal of 'noble terrorism' (or at least excusable, understandable terrorism) in The High Ground was too far for the British censors.
Interestingly though, thinking about Ira Stephen Behrs comments, they never had any problems with the Maquis or the Bajorans. I guess they weren't quite so on the nose - you rarely saw them actually engaging in terror attacks, they were mostly just talked up. And crucially no main characters gave the IRA as an example in dialogue!