[Thor Joachim Haga]

You’re right, it was 1996. So you were already set with those tapes before the rest of us started watching it on telly. I googled just now, and found a few interesting tidbits — TV Norge was the first Norwegian broadcaster to send anything STAR TREK with their TNG in the fall of 1996 and a couple of years henceforth. But they only bought the rights for the first three seasons, and they showed the episodes haphazardly, and not even all of them. Which explains why I remember those Sunday afternoon viewings as scatterbrained, jumping back and forth — even those stories that had continuity across several episodes, they sometimes broke up. Later (in the year 2000), it went to TV2, which showed the whole thing in proper sequence, but by then I had mostly zoomed out, I think. Or maybe I watched a little bit even then.

But it was almost all we had, so didn’t really pay that much attention to this “flaw”.

Ah, the age of linear TV…