diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
index 5d30673..d5cfadc 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
@@ -728,6 +728,9 @@ final class RemoteStore: ObservableObject {
         connection(owningSession: sessionID)?.openSessionID = sessionID
         rebuildAggregate()
         send(.subscribe(Subscribe(sessionID: sessionID, sinceSeq: nil, verbosity: .full)))
+        // Pull the full history too — the subscribe above only returns a 200-event tail, so without
+        // this the transcript would start at the connection point with no events from before it.
+        connection(owningSession: sessionID)?.fetchFullTranscript(sessionID)
     }
 
     /// Ask the host for the open session's full patch (Diff tab). No-op when the host