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Your First Episode/Movie?

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What was the first Star Trek episode or movie that you remember watching? How old were you?

I was 12 or 13 and CityTv in Ontario was airing a marathon of the first 6 movies. The first movie I watched was Search for Spock and I loved it!
 
No idea. I was old enough to catch the very tail end of TOS, but likely didn't really see anything til the early '70s or so, syndication. I know I was watching by '75, '76. I saw bits of TAS when it aired too, but not regularly. I was in the theater for TMP.
 
Take 1 --> Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Summer 1989. I was turning 10. It didn't win me over.

Take 2 --> Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home on VHS. Beginning of 1991. I was 11. This time, I was won over.

Proof that TVH was indeed something to hook a non-fan with.
 
The first movie was The Wrath of Khan when it was broadcast on telly in the 80s here in the UK (possibly for the first time). The only memory I have of that time though, is slouching upside down on the settee in awe of the futuristic titles! (I was 10 or so)
The first episode was a TOS re-run some years earlier - possibly "Operation: Annihilate!"? (I only remember that one because the flying pancakes terrified me.)
 
Honestly, I can't remember back that far. Possibly "The Mantrap" but I would've been six years old then, so I can't swear that was the first episode I watched on NBC way back in 1966.
I'm the same age as you, Greg, and I have a memory of having a memory of having a memory of watching Man Trap at 6 years old on a B&W TV before moving out of Riverside, which was a year and a half or so later. I call that my first episode.
 
I was very likely binging on both TOS and LOST IN SPACE regularly from the age of five, but God knows which TOS episode was first. My earliest solid memory which remains is hearing the opening teaser for ENEMY WITHIN from my adjacent bedroom. 21 years later I would finally watch the entirety of MUDD'S WOMEN and complete the set.
 
Pretty sure the first one I'm conscious of would be The Cloud Minders in 1969, first run on NBC, though I was probably watching the show with my brother before that. And then of course all of TOS in syndication in the very early 70s, then TAS as it came out. Fun times.
 
After just a few moments of TMP and We'll always have Paris, my first full episode was Conspiracy (if it hadn't been censored, I'd have stopped watching :D).
My first movie was TVH, and the first one in theaters was FC :biggrin:
 
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