Thanks so much for your replies, everyone! I've already added a lot of your data to my spreadsheets - it's going to be a lot of fun reporting my findings in a few days!
Born 1991, not a Trekkie.
The first of many, it would seem! (Born in 1991, I mean.)
1991[...]the original series one when figthoing the gorn(was so campy and chessy yet loved it)
The episode in question is called "Arena". A lot of people have a soft spot for that one.
Still 1995, and "Spock's Brain".
As
So Bad, It's Good goes, it's definitely a hard one to top. "His brain is gone!"
Born 1990. Don't want to put down a favourite Star Trek episode as I've only seen about half of them.
Fair enough, but thanks for sharing your year of birth
Born 1982, haven't watched the original.
Welcome aboard, FireIvory! Thanks so much for participating in my survey, and for de-lurking in order to do so!
Thank you, Fardell, and welcome to Club '80s!
My fandom is weird because I saw the Original Series after watching the animated series, so basically it was cartoons come to life.
I
have mentioned that the first episode of
Star Trek I remember seeing is "Yesteryear", haven't I? Granted, I don't recall sitting down and watching
all of TAS first...
Emperor Norton I said:
Concerning my favorite episodes, "The Corbomite Maneuver" is probably my favorite season one episode, along with "Balance of Terror", "Omega Glory", and "Errand of Mercy". I think it would have made a better first aired episode than the pilot or "The Man Trap". I'm also very much a fan of "Mirror, Mirror" and "A Piece of the Action".
I agree about "The Corbomite Maneuver" probably being the best choice for series premiere out of the early batch of episodes, probably followed by "The Naked Time" - a great "
Star Trek in a nutshell" episode - alas, the network demanded a planet-bound episode, which is the main reason why "The Man Trap" (an episode which I rather like, it must be said) was chosen.
We know from the research done by the good folks at La-La Land Records for their superlative
Complete Soundtrack that the score for "The Man Trap" was recorded on August 19, 1966 - "Charlie X", the second episode to air but the eighth produced, was scored on August 29, over a month after shooting wrapped on July 19. It appears that no episode produced after "Charlie X" would have been ready for the premiere date of September 8 (actually September 6, on the Canadian network CTV). A shame, because "Balance of Terror" probably would have been the best choice of all.
Another native of the Swinging Sixties! Excellent.
We are legion!
DanMcCollum said:
The only channel that showed it when I was in middle school was a UHF channel out of Milwaukee that rarely came in. Since it was on at 11 or midnight, i had to record ot and pray the recording was in good enough shape to watch
What an
intriguing story! Thanks for sharing, though it almost sounds more 1970s than 1990s...
DanMcCollum said:
If I had to pick some favorite episodes, I would have to go with Mirror, Mirror, Balance of Terror and Space Seed (the first I ever saw! Which was a treat, since i loved Wrath of Khan). I also have a soft spot for the Tholian Web, even though i havent seen it in years and cant remembwr why I loved it so much.
A very solid list
Another very crowded year for my readership!
And another '90s Kid joins the fray!
Owain said:
Based largely on what I can call up positive memories of off the top of my head,:
"The Menagerie"
"Balance of Terror"
"Who Mourns for Adonais?"
"The Conscience of the King"
"Arena"
Thanks for sharing! They have been noted and logged.
I was wondering if the better economic climate, more population etc means attractions such as RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach do significantly better ITTL?
Several boneheaded decisions regarding the ship were made when she arrived (removing her engines, crappy rewiring, change if use/destruction of rooms etc) as well as general bad management over the years almost caused her to be lost. Can The Queen be saved and thrive on This Wacky Redhead's world please?
Unfortunately, I can't say with any confidence that I'd be able to butterfly the fate of the
Queen Mary ITTL, especially with such a late POD.
A very special year to be born, indeed!
neamathla said:
My current top 10 in alphabetical order.
Thanks for sharing them!
1986, if I haven't mentioned before.
You have, but so have a few others
The Walkman said:
Also: any word on game shows other than The Price is Right (which I recall being mentioned several times)? Butterflies probably mean no Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy in their recognizable forms, but do Family Feud and Match Game still exist ITTL?
As you may know, the cancellation of the original Art Fleming version of
Jeopardy! and its replacement by
Wheel of Fortune (originally known as
Shopper's Bazaar) are both down to a single individual:
Lin Bolen, the VP of Daytime Programming from 1972 (IOTL). She was tasked to improve ratings in Daytime with key demographics (namely, young women) because NBC's primetime schedule was so lousy. The issue is that, ITTL, NBC primetime is doing
much better in the early-1970s, with exactly the right kinds of demographics (well, mostly - the large black audiences watching
Sanford and Son,
Flip Wilson, and
Bill Cosby, amongst others, are definitely fuel for ambivalence amongst executives, as I've previously discussed). Point being, I'm not sure Bolen would be appointed VP Daytime ITTL, or if she were, be given the same mandate as IOTL. That could save
Jeopardy!, a show which proved very hard to kill even IOTL, which butterflies
Wheel (and, of course, the 1984 revival hosted by Alex Trebek, which has continued airing to the present). No
Wheel would be a
massive change, and for that reason alone I like the idea, despite having grown up watching it. As for
Match Game, since the iteration that we all remember began airing on CBS as a direct result of the success of
The New Price is Right, I think it's likely to run ITTL as well -
but perhaps without the core panelists (Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly were both late additions - only Richard Dawson was a charter regular, and even he could well have been a fluke). No Richard Dawson, of course, means no
Family Feud.
Of course, Lin Bolen is said to have inspired the character of Diana Christensen in
Network, a film which ITTL won Best Picture of 1976 (and a role which won Jane Fonda her second Oscar for Best Actress), something I would have to reconcile with a continuing
Jeopardy!... although she seemed to have ruffled a lot of feathers in her career, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
1979, and Balance Of Terror. I'm not sure if you're up for data from people who aren't actually AH members, but my parents are fans of your TL too; 1943 and 1952. I'm not sure on their favourite episodes, though.
Welcome aboard, Battlestar! Thanks so much for sharing your year of birth! And it's delightful that your parents are reading along as well - your father (?) is now the oldest confirmed reader of my thread, though I have a policy that I only add board members to the survey, for internal indexing purposes. But I certainly appreciate the anecdotal data
It looks like there won't be a Thatcherite British Government ITTL, but are any of the Eighties privitisations going to happen ? If they do, will any of the
Star Trek cast appear in an advert for them, such as OTL's
National Power/Powergen one featuring Shatner and Doohan ?
The privatizations are not likely ITTL. I suspect that defanging the Unions will be as far as Wet Willie Whitelaw will be willing to wade. (Try saying
that five times fast.)