Does anyone remember the final TOS episode you saw after 77 others?

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

For the older Trekkers among us, this answer is likely to be TURNABOUT INTRUDER.

For others, due to syndication differences, random watching and assorted factors, this might be difficult to verify.

In my particular case, I saw MUDD'S WOMEN last of them all-----''saw'' being watching start-to-finish without skipping any acts or scenes. I had only seen five minutes at a time of it previously. As a younger kid, I may have found it too female-centric to keep watching, but I can't definitely say. But I finally finished MUDD in 1982, about a decade after I saw many of the others. I believe I came to THAT WHICH SURVIVES, DOOMSDAY MACHINE and SPECTRE OF THE GUN later than most for unknown reasons. But I had seen all but MUDD'S WOMEN well before 1978.

I hand the question over to the gang. Which TOS episode completed your set?

 

[Shawnster]

Nope. Question implies watching the episodes one time through in some kind of order.

I started watching Trek in the early 70s when it was in syndication. I'd watch any chance I could and, due to syndication, this could be up to 3 times in a day.

I don't even remember the first time I saw any TOS episode.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

The first time I saw TOS it was being aired in order and I don't think I missed any of them, so it would've been Turnabout Intruder.

 

[Michael]

For some reason I never caught “For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky” during the first couple of times I originally watched Star Trek as a kid, so I was pleasantly surprised when I first did watch it and realized I hadn't seen it before. I kind of felt like a gift for some reason and the episodes still has a special place in my heart because of that.

 

[feek61]

The last episode I saw for the first time was "Balance of Terror." I remember reading about it and when I finally saw it, it was amazing so I always have remembered it as being the last episode I had watched for the first time. This would have been in the very early 70's.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Wink of an Eye. Trek fan since I was nine years old (1973). Was probably 21 or 22 before I ever saw that one.

Sir Rhosis

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"The Squire of Gothos."

I watched in syndication in essentially random order. I had the episode guide in The World of Star Trek, and I kept watching for it to come around.

The first was "The Cloud Minders."

 

[Nerys Myk]

No idea. Watching was somewhat sporadic. Didn't catch all the episodes first run, because as a kid in the single digits I didn't control the TV. Had to catch up in reruns and again that could be sporadic.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

My very first watch-thru of TOS would have occurred in 1970-71, the early syndication era, on a small b&w TV with rabbit ears. I was 8, and on a TV diet that also included Lost in Space and Batman.

I have no specific memories of that year, but Star Trek was so fascinating, I know I was actively noting every detail, to learn the ship and absorb everything about what we now call the in-universe setting.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Nope. Question implies watching the episodes one time through in some kind of order.

I started watching Trek in the early 70s when it was in syndication. I'd watch any chance I could and, due to syndication, this could be up to 3 times in a day.

I don't even remember the first time I saw any TOS episode.

This is exactly my answer.

 

[Victoria]

I watched the episodes in order as they were shown on the television - but I am in England so not all the episodes of TOS were screened initially. Over the years, I thought I had seen them all at various times in repeats.

The first time I owned all the TOS series was when I bought the remastered edition (I had some odd episodes on tape and DVD) and it took a little while to get round to watching them. My memories of some episodes were better than other but I had no recall of The Empath at all.

That was one of the episodes that was not shown in the UK originally so I suspect I had not seen it before thereby making The Empath my final episode.

 

[Tosk]

Nope. Question implies watching the episodes one time through in some kind of order.

No it doesn't. The question is simply, "Which episode of TOS did you see last?"

 

[Phaser Two]

For some reason I never caught “For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky” during the first couple of times I originally watched Star Trek as a kid, so I was pleasantly surprised when I first did watch it and realized I hadn't seen it before. I kind of felt like a gift for some reason and the episodes still has a special place in my heart because of that.

Yeah, I just randomly selected this one for a rewatch the other night and was pleasantly surprised at how charming, poignant, well-acted and well-written it is. Like "The Paradise Syndrome," with which it shares a couple of similarities, it also feels longer than its runtime because there are multiple beamdowns and an excellent sense of time passing and the basic plot assumptions shifting.

As for the question, to my frustration (and fascination), I can't be certain about which episode I saw first in syndication because I was not in charge of my own life decisions and was young enough to have some Nomad-like holes in my memory of that epoch. But given my general love for S3 I believe it had to be one from that season. By contrast, I'm more sure about the "last first" - I am virtually positive that the last one I saw for the first time was either "Return to Tomorrow," "The Omega Glory," or "Elaan of Troyius." I think I missed those three on my first and second watches. Also, I can't be certain about "The Alternative Factor." I remember kid me being fairly confused about what it was trying to convey, and I may not have completed it until years later.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

I *think* mine would be either a season two episode or early three. I largely went from end of three, then back to one, then two as I watched the end of the early and then full mid 90s UK repeats.

I probably saw Whom Gods Destroy on its first UK showing. (Empath and Plato I don't recall, and Miri was first shown much earlier, but subsequently banned.)

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It would more than likely have to be the original pilot with Jeffrey Hunter since that was never part of the syndication package - even though clips from the pilot were used in the two-part episode The Menagerie. The episode itself wasn't aired in its entirety until the late 80s as part of a celebration of Star Trek.

 

[Poltargyst]

No idea. I was in Kindergarten in the early 70's when I saw TOS for the first time in reruns. I watched them pretty randomly and don't have any idea what was last.

Unless...it was The Cage as stated in the previous post because that wasn't with the others in syndication.

 

[kkt]

No idea, really. I was about 12 or 13, in the early to mid 1970s, and a neighbor said that I should forget about watching Lost in Space and try Star Trek. It was in syndication and I'd usually watch after school, but it was so long ago I don't remember what was the first or last episode I saw. (Unless you're counting The Cage as a separate episode, much later.)

 

[Khan Jr]

I think mine was A Taste of Armageddon! It's a well-regarded episode, so I'd heard of it when I was getting into TOS, but always ended up missing it in syndication. Wasn't until the 2000s when I finally had the chance. Fortunately, it didn't disappoint.

 

[MGagen]

Trek fan from the wee age of 5, when I saw the first episode broadcast. Remember a handful during the initial 3 year run.

Avid watcher from the time it first hit syndication in the 70s, but somehow I never managed to see Wolf in the Fold. It just never came up in the rotation when I was watching. I had seen all the other episodes countless times, but never WITF.

Later in the 80s, when the series was released on VHS, my local mom-and-pop video rental store wisely invested in the whole set. I clearly remember deliberately planning an evening to see my first new classic Trek in years. Not my favorite episode, but it was a magical experience; like finding a time capsule, or a long lost manuscript from a famous author.

M.

 

[Ceridwen]

"All Our Yesterdays". While I'd seen several episodes on what was then the Sci-Fi Channel, my first time watching the series through, beginning to end, was on Columbia House Collector's Edition VHS from the library, two episodes at a time. Those tapes were arranged in Stardate order, so "All Our Yesterdays" would have been the last of them.