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

[CorporalCaptain]

Technically for me it would be the full version of the STAR TREK pilot: The Cage as for a time the pilot episode was in fact added to the syndication package after that full color original print was discovered, and aired.

Well, if we're going to be that way about it, I still haven't seen 100% of every second of TOS-R, and I never will.

 

[Tallguy]

I have seen

• 100%: TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, PIC, LDS, SNW, PRO (Yikes, the only thing I've watched 100% on air date is PIC and SNW! I think I managed five seasons of TNG.)
• Every movie on opening week if not opening day. The only films I didn't see multiple times in their original runs are TMP (not my fault, I was ten!), INS, NEM, and the Kelvin films (I had babies then). I saw TUC three times on opening night.
• Pilot on airdate: TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, PIC, SNW (TNG and ENT at Star Trek parties)
• Finale on airdate: TNG, VOY, ENT, PIC, LDS, PRO (it's Netflix, so...) (TNG at a Star Trek party)

I say I'm not going to watch Section 31 (SEC?) but looking at the above and knowing it's a long time to SNW...

Damn. I'm a nerd.

EDIT: I've seen -- A fair amount of TOS-R?

 

[Phaser Two]

I have seen

• 100%: TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, PIC, LDS, SNW, PRO (Yikes, the only thing I've watched 100% on air date is PIC and SNW! I think I managed five seasons of TNG.)
• Every movie on opening week if not opening day. The only films I didn't see multiple times in their original runs are TMP (not my fault, I was ten!), INS, NEM, and the Kelvin films (I had babies then). I saw TUC three times on opening night.
• Pilot on airdate: TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, PIC, SNW (TNG and ENT at Star Trek parties)
• Finale on airdate: TNG, VOY, ENT, PIC, LDS, PRO (it's Netflix, so...) (TNG at a Star Trek party)

I say I'm not going to watch Section 31 (SEC?) but looking at the above and knowing it's a long time to SNW...

Damn. I'm a nerd.

EDIT: I've seen -- A fair amount of TOS-R?

The Star Trek parties sound like a blast!

 

[Tallguy]

The Star Trek parties sound like a blast!

I have to say the Farpoint party was pretty great. (Thanks, Charles!) It was several circles of friends (not every circle really liked all of the other ones) in a really big house. It was on TVs in several rooms and everyone would wander from room to room during commercials.

I can't really describe what it was like watching the first Star Trek on television in my lifetime. It was generally well received. Not a home run but we wanted more. (I still love Farpoint.)

All Good Things and Broken Bow were smaller affairs. And in apartments.

 

[Tallguy]

I believe Tallguy may have struck a wrong key three posts above this one.

Wrong key or I got an abbreviation wrong? Which part?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Wrong key or I got an abbreviation wrong? Which part?

It's probably accidental thread drift more than a key. When I saw all the non-TOS shows and films mentioned, then the follow-up party comments, things seemed much less focused on TOS finales. This isn't a complaint or a mini-mod attempt. It's likely my misunderstanding.

I've elected to delete my previous comment.

 

[Campe]

I think it was actually "Turnabout Intruder." I had seen a lot of early season 1 and some of season two when I was younger. Finally, I bought all of the two episode DVDs and watched the remaining ones that way.

 

[Tallguy]

It's probably accidental thread drift more than a key. When I saw all the non-TOS shows and films mentioned, then the follow-up party comments, things seemed much less focused on TOS finales. This isn't a complaint or a mini-mod attempt. It's likely my misunderstanding.

I've elected to delete my previous comment.

I think I was responding to this:

Not to out myself as a fake fan, but to this day, I still haven't sat down and watched through all of TOS, TNG, DS9, or VGR, and I've missed episodes of all of them thanks re-run scheduling and the difficulty of programming VCRs and keeping up with when new episodes were airing in the '90s.

I'm certainly not a fake fan but there is still a lot of stuff I've never seen. For some reason I think I'm more in the mood to tackle four seasons of ENT and two seasons of DSC than six seasons of VOY.

 

[trekfan_1]

I remember once remembering what it was but I have seen forgotten. I need a Ullian to help me out.

 

[trekfan_1]

Does the VHS presentation of "The Cage" count?

 

[Captrek]

I remember that I thought I had seen them all — certainly I’d seen most of them multiple times — and when TWOK came out I was surprised to learn there was at least one I hadn’t seen.

I don’t know whether Space Seed was my very last, but it was definitely near the end. And it was definitely exciting to catch it. It wasn’t like I could pull it up on demand or knew when it was coming. I just knew this episode existed, but I’d have to wait to catch it on TV. And when you’re twelve, waiting is a big deal.

 

[Picard1994]

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

Not necessarily. I was born a year after TOS left NBC and I can't remember what episode I saw last. Or first for that matter.

 

[Sam_I_Am]

When I finally got the entire show on DVD, I watched all of them including the ones I’d never seen before… except for Wolf in the Fold (randomly chosen) because I wanted there still to be one more never-seen episode out there.

I folded after a couple of years and watched it. It was pretty good.

 

[Just a Bill]

I saw the episodes in early syndication (may have seen a few in first run, but memory fails since I would've been 5 when Turnabout first aired). I can't say for sure which one I actually saw last, but I'll never forget which one I remember seeing last: Where No Man Has Gone Before. I had no idea how TV was made or what pilots were, and I thought I totally knew Star Trek, so this unexpected anomaly in the universe just blew my little mind.

 

[I am not Herbert]

I bought a fanzine when I was eight. (It's how I learned about the Federation Trading Post in New York.) It had an episode guide. The very concept blew my mind. That there could be a cataloged and finite number of episodes. I remember watching Mirror, Mirror and finding it in the guide with its photo. It blew my mind.

I had a similar experience when I prevailed upon my mom to buy me a copy of Allan Asherman's "The Star Trek Compendium" at a Sci-Fi convention @ 1989 or so. I don't think people who have grown up in the internet era (and especially in the internet and streaming era) can begin to conceive of how revelatory it was to get your hands on a book like this in the middle of a catch-as-catch-can syndication watch. And how affirming-- I knew only one other kid my age who watched TOS (or at least admitted to doing so). It was wild to see that this show was important enough to so many others to justify a book of minutiae

I am not a hoarder by nature but I still have that book; throwing it out would feel like throwing out a living thing.