Your First Episode/Movie?

[MLJames1961]

"Spectre of the Gun" is the earliest one I remember seeing. I know I saw episodes before that, but "Spectre" is the one that sticks in my mind because I was only eight years old and my father let me stay up to the horrendously late hour of 11:00 on a Friday night.

First move was TMP. Saw it on December 8, 1979.

 

[ananta]

I remember being at a school friend’s house and he was watching Star Trek III TSFS. I didn’t know the characters or universe and could barely really understand what was going on, but found it compelling enough. The fx were fun I remember thinking Kruge was super cool and feeling sorry for him when his targ died. The bit where the Klingons arrive on the Genesis planet and Kruge puts his hands through those worm-creatures always sticks in my mind.

First proper episode was “Encounter at Farpoint” when TNG began airing in the UK in Autumn 1990. I was intrigued but not sold on it. I liked Data and Tasha for some reason, but not really many of the rest of the crew. Picard was like an old school headteacher, dour, preachy, self-important and I could never figure out why the very first thing they ever showed his character do was unconditionally surrender to the bad guy without even trying to fight or outwit him. I found the plot dragged somewhat although I did like the ship and futuristic setting.

I gave it another chance with “Code of Honour”, and unsurprisingly that did not win me over either. A third chance several weeks later with “Hide & Q”…which again, didn’t win me over. Picard was still so stuffy, I found Riker unlikeable too and Q was annoying. So many times during that episode I just wished the characters would shut up and something exciting or cool would happen.

It wasn’t until I happened to tune in much later to the season….i think it was maybe “When the Bough Breaks”, that I finally began to warm to the show and began to watch weekly. It had definitely found its feet by then and, for all the hate Wesley gets, I think having a character just a bit older than me, did help draw me in a little.

 

[F. King Daniel]

TNG, "Encounter at Farpoint" when it premiered in the UK in 1990. I was 6 and immediately drawing LCARS panels and sticking them on the walls. Then Star Trek V on Betamax and TOS: "Journey to Babel" as a hand me down Betamax home recorded tape. My mother has regretted it all ever since

 

[Mojochi]

My earliest Star Trek memory is Spock & Uhura's duet on Oh, On The Starship Enterprise from CharlieX. I must've been around 3 or 4, watching reruns with my dad in 1974-75.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I've told this story many times here. First, I saw the end of "A Taste of Armageddon." Then I saw the beginning of "Space Seed." Then, the first episode I saw all the way through was "The Devil in the Dark." This was circa 1973; I was 10, and in 5th Grade. And I saw all the ST movies, in sequence, in first run.

If the first episode I saw (or even the first entire episode I saw, or the first ending I saw) had been "The Man Trap," it would have also been the last.