I didn't see this before I made my reply. That's funny. I wonder how many kids were introduced to trek via that.
Your First Episode/Movie?
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My sister preferred to call “hotcakes” thanks to a certain Lisa Douglas of Hooterville.
I remember one of them hitting Nimoy in the rear in the blooper reel. OMG how popular those were at Cons. Folks would ask for a repeat at the one I was with. My role in ConCom was such I got to program the 24 hr video we had running. 8hr VCR tapes were my salvation at night. I'd squeeze 24 eps of anime' into them or 9 eps of TOS by cutting out the standard into (not the teaser) and credits and then record the blooper into the tape until it ended. Good times. Thank goodness I had a 4 head VCR.
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Best of Both Worlds - I was at university at the time it was on. Before this I never really watch much trek, as it was quite late at night. TNG was never treated with much respect when it aired here on channel 9 back in the 1990s.
Me too, it was the first episode to air on NBC, I was 9.
The Wrath of Khan… I was maybe 6-7?
"The Cloud Minders", early 1970s, well before TAS premiered. I was 4 or 5.
I feel like the correct answer for me may technically be TWOK but it doesn't feel like the complete story because I... might have seen bits of TOS reruns before that? Also I'm pretty sure I had a ST comic book in the late 70s. Maybe even an action figure. And the COTEOF fotonovel?
I remember seeing only brief parts of "Equilibrium" at 5, a lot of whole scenes, maybe most/whole episode or maybe not, of "Projections" and "The Q and the Grey" at 6 or 7, I think the first whole episode I watched/remember watching was probably "Macrocosm" or "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" at 7 and from then started watching increasingly regularly Voyager and Deep Space Nine.
I was a WLVI 56 kid too! I think It was mid-to-late 70's, and I was very young. My first episode was definitely "Where No Man Has Gone Before" as I would guess that channel 56 started running episodes in production order. I was probably 4 years old.
Do you remember when they'd play 2 episodes in a row every day? Usually late afternoon/early evening. Great stuff back then!
First movie was TMP, the night it premiered on HBO. TWOK was the first theater experience.
I do remember. I especially remember vexing my mother when she would call me to dinner and I would say something like “but Kirk and Spock haven’t finished beating the Klingons” or something like that. Good times.
For the first Star Trek movie I watched, I had to wait until the summer of 1980 to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture, in the theater. The day it was released in the US, the ship I was stationed on was making a 6-day port call in Piraeus, Greece (Port for Athens), then my last port call on that cruise was at the end of December, 14 days in Naples, Italy. On January 3, 1980, we left Naples for the Gulf of Oman. We didn't see land until we returned to Norfolk, VA, on May 22, 1980.
No one was was surprised than me to find out I had a girlfriend and then another!!!!I remember nerdom in those days. This is obviously a lie.
Actually most them were into SFF and more than willing to be seen at science fiction films. Some even read comic books!!!!!
I'd probably seen earlier episodes, but the first in terms of remembering would be "Return to Tomorrow" (not the first-time it was aired, or even prior to that as that wouldn't be possible) as the psychedelic glowing balls were interesting*. I also recall those kiddie "connect the dots and crayon in the color" drawings of Kirk & Spock, "RED ALERT" (e.g. first grade faff), and so on. Plus, if I'm going to date myself then I'll use carbon dating and find out that I'm as timeless as the Q are, so there's that too... 
* later rewatches had me appreciating the story more for a slew of other reasons, as one would hopefully expect
Fist movie was definitely TSFS. When I finally got to see TWOK (VHS, widescreen, on a 20" 4:3 aspect ratio CRT), it was almost a shock over tone and style. Never mind TMP... Gotta admit, some new technologies can indeed be good what backlit LCD and LED screens allowing larger screens that weigh less to save on pesky things like hernias and back strain and all. (Read: 16:9 with some letterboxing is better than 4:3 with a truckload of it, regardless if the screen is 36" in either technology... pillarboxing is far less a problem on the wider TVs too, when compared to letterboxing regardless...)
TOS "The Menagerie, Part 2" on November 23rd 1987. I was 7.
I was immediately hooked and was excited about every new episode.
Although it was 1987/88 already, I can claim that I caught the first airing of many episodes in Germany: While 39 episodes had already been dubbed and broadcast on public tv in 1972-74, the remaining 39 episodes (except for "Patterns of Force") were first aired in Germany 1987/88, after a private channel had picked up the series.
I was immediately hooked and was excited about every new episode.
Although it was 1987/88 already, I can claim that I caught the first airing of many episodes in Germany: While 39 episodes had already been dubbed and broadcast on public tv in 1972-74, the remaining 39 episodes (except for "Patterns of Force") were first aired in Germany 1987/88, after a private channel had picked up the series.
"Best of Both Worlds, Part I". I love telling this story. My dad always watched TNG since the day I was born so I was always vaguely aware of it. But when I was three or four years old, one night he wasn't watching and I decided to watch for myself. I came in halfway through when the Borg have made contact with the Enterprise-D. I remember the Borg issuing the order, "You will surrender yourselves or we will destroy your ship!" Faced by a monolithic enemy of vast superiority, I expected Picard to piss himself or hide behind his captain's chair (I was a small child, you must remember) or at least try to run. What he actually did surprised the hell out of me. He begins YELLING at the Borg. "You have committed acts of aggression against the United Federation of Planets!" This man is angry, and not the least bit afraid of dying, or so he makes it seem. That was the first of countless lessons Star Trek taught me: Stand up for what's right, no matter if you risk losing or dying. Aside from that, the fact that this Picard fellow was someone who had earned my respect and whom I wanted to get to know a LOT better made me a lifelong fan. Turns out this was a rerun, as I only remember TNG being on the air a few more months before my Dad told me it was over. I remember being crushed. But this led to my first Trek movie experience...
...sometime later, when Star Trek GENERATIONS came out on VHS, my dad rented it and we watched it. I remember being confused as to why the movie began on what seemed like a brand new Enterprise (I didn't get that this was a flashback at first), nor why William Shatner, the host from Rescue 9-11, was on the ship; I would later make simplified drawings of Worf instead of Kirk in the Enterprise deflector control room, with large vats of glowing orange chemicals and steam billowing out, resembling the engine room of the 2009 ship more than the actual deflector controls. I also remember being very concerned at the loss of so many El-Aurian refugees in the energy ribbon (mom made my dad lie and tell me that EVERYONE got beamed out safely). Then the story moved on and I understood this was the present day with the Enterprise I knew and loved, and what I had just seen was the past. The rest of the movie I had few notes, save that I wondered why it was so DARK inside the ship all the time, and by the end I thought the USS Farragut was a hint that the Enterprise-E would be a Nebula-class Starship.
The rest, as they say, is history.
...sometime later, when Star Trek GENERATIONS came out on VHS, my dad rented it and we watched it. I remember being confused as to why the movie began on what seemed like a brand new Enterprise (I didn't get that this was a flashback at first), nor why William Shatner, the host from Rescue 9-11, was on the ship; I would later make simplified drawings of Worf instead of Kirk in the Enterprise deflector control room, with large vats of glowing orange chemicals and steam billowing out, resembling the engine room of the 2009 ship more than the actual deflector controls. I also remember being very concerned at the loss of so many El-Aurian refugees in the energy ribbon (mom made my dad lie and tell me that EVERYONE got beamed out safely). Then the story moved on and I understood this was the present day with the Enterprise I knew and loved, and what I had just seen was the past. The rest of the movie I had few notes, save that I wondered why it was so DARK inside the ship all the time, and by the end I thought the USS Farragut was a hint that the Enterprise-E would be a Nebula-class Starship.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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