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29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 4
Feb. 9th, 2012 07:37 pmWhat was the first Star Trek series you watched?
The first episodes I saw were a couple of Next Generation episodes the video library had (I, Borg and The Next Phase), but the first series I saw on anything resembling a regular schedule was, in fact, the Original Series – Channel Nine used to show Babylon 5 and the Original Series late at night during the mid-nineties.
Unfortunately, their scheduling became increasingly erratic after a while, so there’s still a lot of seasons two and three I’ve never seen. I keep meaning to track them down and watch them, but it’s never really been a priority.
I was – of course – a big science fiction reader as a kid, and the original series really is the perfect show for someone growing up on Asimov and Clarke; more so even than the other series, it feels very much like a set of classic science fiction short stories. It’s almost an anthology show, a Twilight Zone with recurring cast. It’s a format that I enjoy – and, thinking about it, may be one of the reasons Deep Space Nine never grabbed me to the same degree as the other series; it didn’t have the same sort of high concept, episodic framework that the original Trek had.
The first episodes I saw were a couple of Next Generation episodes the video library had (I, Borg and The Next Phase), but the first series I saw on anything resembling a regular schedule was, in fact, the Original Series – Channel Nine used to show Babylon 5 and the Original Series late at night during the mid-nineties.
Unfortunately, their scheduling became increasingly erratic after a while, so there’s still a lot of seasons two and three I’ve never seen. I keep meaning to track them down and watch them, but it’s never really been a priority.
I was – of course – a big science fiction reader as a kid, and the original series really is the perfect show for someone growing up on Asimov and Clarke; more so even than the other series, it feels very much like a set of classic science fiction short stories. It’s almost an anthology show, a Twilight Zone with recurring cast. It’s a format that I enjoy – and, thinking about it, may be one of the reasons Deep Space Nine never grabbed me to the same degree as the other series; it didn’t have the same sort of high concept, episodic framework that the original Trek had.