I think that was the first episode I ever saw at age nine. I changed the channel away from Daniel Boone and saw three men in uniforms walking along a road. One of them said, "Once, just once, I'd like to land on a planet and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel'" and then made some crack about the other guy's pointed ears.
Ha. That sounds so familiar. For me it was "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". I was eleven, we were switching channels away from Nils Holgerson, and there were these three guys in uniform walking around on some planet, having a conversation about something, I had no idea what was going on... less than five minutes later I was *hooked*. And continued to be hooked for the next decade, even though German tv showed only half the episodes (badly dubbed) and I had to wait until I was 19 until I could watch the show again, when I was in Canada for a summer.
Fortunately the tie-in novels were decent to excellent, and there were a lot of them; I hadn't even heard of fanfic back then.
Oh, @thefourthvine: Here's a tie-in novel rec, my favorite of the bunch: How Much For Just The Planet, by John Ford. It's a team story with lots of OCs, and it's hilarious. Great (if somewhat absurd) plot. I also adored Uhura's Song, including the OCs.
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I think that was the first episode I ever saw at age nine. I changed the channel away from Daniel Boone and saw three men in uniforms walking along a road. One of them said, "Once, just once, I'd like to land on a planet and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel'" and then made some crack about the other guy's pointed ears.
Ha. That sounds so familiar. For me it was "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". I was eleven, we were switching channels away from Nils Holgerson, and there were these three guys in uniform walking around on some planet, having a conversation about something, I had no idea what was going on... less than five minutes later I was *hooked*. And continued to be hooked for the next decade, even though German tv showed only half the episodes (badly dubbed) and I had to wait until I was 19 until I could watch the show again, when I was in Canada for a summer.
Fortunately the tie-in novels were decent to excellent, and there were a lot of them; I hadn't even heard of fanfic back then.
Oh, @thefourthvine: Here's a tie-in novel rec, my favorite of the bunch: How Much For Just The Planet, by John Ford. It's a team story with lots of OCs, and it's hilarious. Great (if somewhat absurd) plot. I also adored Uhura's Song, including the OCs.