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All the star trek memes convinced me to start a star trek watch through. Didn't realize there were so many dang episodes, its gonna take a while.
Almost 60 years worth at this point. Hope you enjoy the journey!
I most certainly am going to, I've watched alot of random episodes from multiple different series, but my partner has only watched a few with captain janeway. We just finished part 1 of the menagerie, honestly wish we had skipped the original pilot so the episode would hit harder for her, but it is what it is.
What a great episode though. I just finished a rewatch of TOS a few weeks ago, and I love it so much.
If you ever get to Strange New Worlds and Discovery, they flesh out The Menagerie in all kinds of interesting ways. My only complaint is that they didn't make Vina look deformed enough when she appeared.
Every night I look forward to new adventures on whatever Star Trek series that I've come to.
If I fall a sleep during an episode, I blame the episode, and I haven't regretted cutting them short like that. The good ones will be worth it and most of the bad ones too, but when the android character is playing a theater part of Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck and I'm supposed to give a shit? No.
Likewise. I downloaded what's supposed to be every episode. I don't know how I'm going to find the time to watch all this. Very intimidating.
Holy shit i just googled it and there are 903 episodes including the movies...
It took me like a week to download what I think is all of them from a decent cable connection. I do intend to watch this but it's going to take me like a year given that I have a job.
However, I'm very privileged in a sense. I get to watch them for the first time. How many fans would love to rewatch episodes for the first time?
Do a reaction post for or during each episode! As a longtime fan it’s fun hearing what people thought about it for the first time
Does that include all the animated stuff, do you know?
Not sure, i just googled, dont have time to count them all myself lol so damn many
If you're looking for a way to start, Next Generation (TNG) is a good entry point, though you might want to start with season 3 (it's when it really started to feel polished). If you like that then Voyager is similarly episodic and easy to watch, though the writers could've treated some of the characters a little better in that. Modern episodic trek is Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, also both immediately fun and easy to get into.
Deep Space 9 is what started trek on having longer serialized arcs, and Enterprise also has long story lines (the entirety of season 3 was one arc).
And I'll probably get some disagreement for this, but despite having grown up on trek and watched almost everything that's out there (I think I just have 1 or 2 seasons of Discovery left), I've never really been able to watch much of the original series. It just feels way too dated for me. Maybe if the guys over at the Greatest Generation podcast pick it up I'll try to work through it.
I wanted to start with TNG but my partner insisted on starting at the beginning, that being said its been really fun watching tropes get introduced, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped and bones saying, "I'm a doctor not a -----" its really good if you even slightly enjoy campy stuff and has gotten tons of laughs from us as we watch it. But yeah TNG is the best place to start imo.
Same here actually. Halfway through the first season of TNG. Happy to have something to binge. Also going to switch to Linux in the neat future.
Neat!
I did the math a while back it's well over a thousand hours for all the series and movies. With the recent surge in new properties, it's going to be much higher than what I came up with even a few years ago.