I feel the same way, just from a different point. To me, anything after the end of VOY is "that new stuff!", whether I'm into it or not. Doesn't matter how long ago it was.
First Episode You Saw For Each Show In Order You Saw Them.
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TOS: I don't know. The first I remember is "I, Mudd" but I'd already been watching Trek.
All the rest: The premiere episode of in release order.
The only exception is TAS. For some reason I never saw a single episode until 1985 when it was on Nickelodeon.
All the rest: The premiere episode of in release order.
The only exception is TAS. For some reason I never saw a single episode until 1985 when it was on Nickelodeon.
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TNG: Night Terrors or QPid ( Don't remember the specifics)
DS9: Emissary
VOY: Caretaker
Star Trek: Devil in the Dark
ENT: Broken Bow
Discovery: Vulcan Hello
Lower Decks: Second Contact
Picard: Rememberance
Prodigy: Lost and Found
Strange New Worlds: Strange New Worlds
DS9: Emissary
VOY: Caretaker
Star Trek: Devil in the Dark
ENT: Broken Bow
Discovery: Vulcan Hello
Lower Decks: Second Contact
Picard: Rememberance
Prodigy: Lost and Found
Strange New Worlds: Strange New Worlds
I think I started off with Search for Spock or Voyage Home, then my first series was TNG, beginning with Encounter at Farpoint. BBC 2 gave TNG a break after Best of Both Worlds and aired TOS instead, so I watched that starting with The Cage.
I can't remember where I started with DS9 exactly, but I'm pretty sure Sisko had a goatee, and TAS was just a weird show I caught on TV a couple of times until I made the effort to watch it all years later.
Everything else I watched in order starting with season 1, episode 1.
I can't remember where I started with DS9 exactly, but I'm pretty sure Sisko had a goatee, and TAS was just a weird show I caught on TV a couple of times until I made the effort to watch it all years later.
Everything else I watched in order starting with season 1, episode 1.
TOS: Balance of Terror
TNG: Conspiracy
DS9: Pilot, Emissary
VOY: Pilot, Caretaker
ENT: Pilot, Broken Bow
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DSC: Pilot, Battle at Binary Stars
PIC: Pilot
SNW: Pilot
LD: Pilot
PRO: S1 Borg Ep.
TNG: Conspiracy
DS9: Pilot, Emissary
VOY: Pilot, Caretaker
ENT: Pilot, Broken Bow
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DSC: Pilot, Battle at Binary Stars
PIC: Pilot
SNW: Pilot
LD: Pilot
PRO: S1 Borg Ep.
TOS: Complicated. First, I saw the end of "A Taste of Armageddon." Then I saw the beginning of "Space Seed." Then I saw "The Devil in the Dark" in its entirety.
TAS: "Yesteryear." Because the broadcast order was changed for the Los Angeles market, where George Takei had entered politics. It was the first available episode without Sulu, and without George providing any other voices.
TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, PIC, LD, and SNW: the first episodes of each.
TAS: "Yesteryear." Because the broadcast order was changed for the Los Angeles market, where George Takei had entered politics. It was the first available episode without Sulu, and without George providing any other voices.
TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC, PIC, LD, and SNW: the first episodes of each.
I am old enough to have seen TOS when it came out so I have seen all premieres first with the exception of Voyager.
In the days before streaming, if you missed an episode, you missed an episode.(didn't have a video recorder at that point) and I had a regular commitment on the night Voyager aired. I think the first episode I saw was "Parallax" but the only thing I really remember was Chakotay talking to Seska and having no idea what was going on with the Maquis/Starfleet mix. Really put me off Voyager and I watched it only intermittently after that. It was reading the novelisation of Caretaker that cleared up, for me, what was going on.
After that, I've been very careful to make sure I see the premieres first although I think it's only DS9 where the premiere is as important as Voyager's in making sense of what happens next.
(Perhaps I should add that I did a Voyager rewatch to make sure that I'd seen all the episodes and finally got to see Caretaker then!)
In the days before streaming, if you missed an episode, you missed an episode.(didn't have a video recorder at that point) and I had a regular commitment on the night Voyager aired. I think the first episode I saw was "Parallax" but the only thing I really remember was Chakotay talking to Seska and having no idea what was going on with the Maquis/Starfleet mix. Really put me off Voyager and I watched it only intermittently after that. It was reading the novelisation of Caretaker that cleared up, for me, what was going on.
After that, I've been very careful to make sure I see the premieres first although I think it's only DS9 where the premiere is as important as Voyager's in making sense of what happens next.
(Perhaps I should add that I did a Voyager rewatch to make sure that I'd seen all the episodes and finally got to see Caretaker then!)
In the case of DS9 it was 'The Emissary', I wish I could remember the rest.
I saw TOS in re-runs in the 70s when I was a kid, so I have no idea which one I saw first. Every other show I saw from the first episode.
Pretty sure the first episode of TOS I saw was "The Doomsday Machine". Everything else was Episode 1 on Day 1 (except I'm not 100% sure about TAS, although "Beyond the Farthest Star" seems right). All of the movies were seen opening weekend except ST4, which I think i saw about a week after it opened.
I couldn't even begin to tell you what my first episode of the original series was, but my first episode of every other series was the first episode of that series.
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