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Start with TOS and if you find it too hard to watch start with TNG and if you find the first bit of TNG too hard to watch you can skip ahead of you really want to I guess, but I find it all worth watching.
i am a very late bloomer to ST. i watches TOS and loved it; i startrd up TNG about a month ago.
im in season 3 episode 4 and councillor troy hasnt died yet. i hate her with a fiery passion for ruining what seems to be a really good show. my friends have confirmed she doesnt die and told me to leave TNG behind and move on to DS9.
i guess i get DS9 tomorrow.
I’m going to be the serpent in the grass and say give Babylon 5 a go before DS9. The first season will feel slow because the show is structured like a novel; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion. There are small things like newspaper headers that hint towards future developments, and every main character undergoes a major arc. I enjoy DS9, but it’s never felt as cohesive as B5 to me. You may throw your stones now.
B5 definitely best star trek. Ds9 or lower decks a close second.
It’s such a weird choice to put “ships councilor” on the bridge.
Someone had to protect Wesley from Picard.
All the high-maintenance staff are on the bridge.
i can imagine the unimportant meetings that werent part of the show… you know like routine runs.
“i am captain jean luc picard of the USS Enterprise. to my right is my number one, commander riker. to my front left is my number two, lieutenant commander data… as opposed to this random lady sitting next to me who has nothing to do with leadership on the bridge.”
[everyone glares at troy]
Her character does get a bit better in later seasons. She even starts wearing a real uniform.
Understood; starting with Picard and Discovery first!
Picard is easily the worst serious ever. And I don’t mean it in the sense of “place to start” but in the sense of “worst serious period”. Discovery is great tho.
it’s an odd series for sure. I did enjoy the last season purely for the Enterprise-D returning. But still it’s weird how they kinda just tossed Wes aside as if he didn’t exist because THIS Crusher son was “WAY more important”. It’s like hey Beverly, you have another kid. one who at this point is WAY more powerful than your hybrid Borg thingy Son.
I liked S1. I did not finish S2.
As a non-Trekkie, I found it enjoyable enough… ditto with Discovery (at least the first season).
I just picked those two because they were literally my introduction to Star Trek TV series, and I know both are quite divisive in the community…
Funny, I liked the later seasons of Discovery much more when it
grew its beardgrew its dreadlocks.Picard has it’s moments but a ton of fan service that wouldn’t work for non-Trekkie’s I would assume but maybe that’s why you didn’t care about it and wasn’t bothered. It’s “let’s take the heroes of these series and let them fight against these villains from these series and the storyline from there”. Maybe it works even better if you’re new to all of them.
I wouldn’t even say it’s bad but all the other series are better, so have fun discovering the other series 😉
Wow, Devils Due is like the second episode I watched (first was Silicon Avatar) and I remember enjoying the ending where Picard mimics all her tricks before telling her to fuck off.
In hindsight easily a notgreat episode, but I remember it fondly.
Look I fell into the doctor who crowd years ago and it has been… A ride. I always figured I’d get into trek when Ive got nothing left to lose
We’re all getting the Star Trek experience of the early 21st century troubles.
This is incorrect.
If you are new at this point “Lower decks” is the right place to start.
After that you can go to any series, even if TNG is the right next step. You can pick anything.
Lower decks has soooo many references to the other series I feel like it would be a very confusing place to start.
The references would be lost, but it is still very enjoyable new content for new watchers.
They can come back to Lower Decks after watching everything else to get the references.
Ew.
I think either Strange New Worlds or Lower Decks is a good starting point for someone new to Trek. I think I’d recommend SNW over Lower Decks though just because the number of references in Lower Decks to other Star Trek media is pretty high.
The number of references and in jokes was what made me give SNW and eventually TNG a chance personally. I jist really wanted to know wtf was up with the Koala
TOS - The Man Trap.
My recommendation is to start with the second movie and make your way to first contact.
Then switch to voyager. If you reach the middle of it, there is no stopping you anymore.
Alternatively, you can switch to deep space 9 after the movies.
Lost, confused, disturbed, unsettled, baffled and eve a bit turned on.
This could describe every decon scene in ENT.
I loved when they got tired of putting the eye candy in those scenes and started throwing in random characters like Porthos.
If you’re going to do a “courtroom” TNG episode, no way it’s Devils Due… The Drumhead all day long.
Measure of a Man > The Drumhead > Devil’s Due
The only right way to start is with TOS. And now get out of my grain silo, damn tribbles!
I started with voyager, was that wrong?
what an odd place to start…I absolutely respect it!
Yes. You’re only a true fan, if you watched TOS when it first aired. *menacingly brandishes walking stick*
no, the correct answer is star trek online, klingon empire gorn science captain.
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You clearly start with “The Cage”
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Yeah, but the answer is TNG, Season 3, Episode 2, The Ensigns of Command. That’s about when they hit their stride. If you’re very brave you could start with Season 2, Episode 9, The Measure of a Man, but that season is pretty hit or miss (if I remember right, the season finale was a clip show).
Why not s3e1? I don’t know anything about it but why skip that one?
It’s a Wesley episode.
I don’t know what that means.
I envy you.
(He was an annoying self-insert character for young boys that was more prominent in the first two seasons. You migr know him from the, “Shut Up Wesley,” meme. He was played by Will Whedon who, by all accounts, is a pretty chill dude).
