Your First Episode/Movie?

[Planet of the Daves]

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!

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Balance of Terror on recorded VHS at 8.

 

[The Hanuk Kai]

I wouldn't know. It was before I was 4, perhaps 3, sometime in the early seventies. I have early memories of Kirk floating in space and a big tree log shooting at starships. Take your pick.

 

[Greg Cox]

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.

 

[vfxart]

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.

 

[Charlie Xmas]

Beyond The Farthest Star

 

[LAFR]

Tuesday, September 6th, 1966

The Man Trap

I was 10.

 

[Lord Garth]

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.

 

[Cyfa]

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.)

 

[Ovation]

Sometime in October 1973 on a Saturday night. WLVI Ch. 56 out of Boston. Devil in the Dark. I was 6 years old and hooked.

 

[Daddy Todd]

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.

 

[Nude Colonel Stuart]

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.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

Tuesday, September 6th, 1966

The Man Trap

I was 10.

Same here, only I was 12.

 

[Takeru]

It was a TOS rerun in the 80s but I have no idea which episode.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

It was the episode Omega Glory in the early 1980s, I recall being disturbed by all the people on that ship being turned into piles of salt.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

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.

 

[1001001]

I’m pretty sure it was Operation: Annihilate! In syndication.

The flying amoebas freaked me out as a young kid.

 

[NCC-73515]

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 ).
My first movie was TVH, and the first one in theaters was FC

 

[Santa Kang]

Man Trap. I was seven. It was 1966.

 

[XCV330]

TOS reruns in the 70s. Too old to remember which one but the first one I actively remember was Operation Annihilate. Those flying flapjacks were scary.