Where do I start with Star Trek?

Where do I start with Star Trek?

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TOS movies.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

TOS clearly

Start with the orginal series. If you like that, you can try TNG and if that is to your liking then you can watch Voyager and Enterprise. DS9 is a must if you love Babylon 5 and TNG.

Star Trek starts and ends with Kirk and Spock

Do the JewJew movies count?

TNG, then Deep Space 9, then Voyager, then... well, by that time you'll be able to decide for yourself. No need to watch every single episode as some of them are not only boring but incredibly stupid. Just go through imdb and pick the ones that interest you the most. Never listen to the "oldfags" demanding you start with TOS bullshit. If you start with TOS you wouldn't be able to finish it and won't ever want to watch Star Trek again.

I really really really really dislike Leonard Nimoy.

Imagine being that fucking smug about yourself for doing a kid's show about laser guns.

Start with the Greeks.

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Basically this. It gives you the old cast without being too dated.

>Never listen to the "oldfags" demanding you start with TOS bullshit. If you start with TOS you wouldn't be able to finish it and won't ever want to watch Star Trek again.
This. It was even corny for its time and it's unbearable now. The movies are worth a watch though, especially the first one. TNG and DS9 are musts. Voyager is boring. Enterprise has it's moments.

I'm pretty sure hes smug about his triple platinum musical career
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TOS S1E1

this

Obviously thay don't.
nu Trek is not StarTrek

t. braindead zoomer

Absolutely based /lit/fag

Watch whatever episodes you like in TOS in whatever order you like. it's episodic, in fact all trek is like this in its purest form. TOS regained popularity massively in syndication, and there's no episodes you need watch to know what's going on.

Chcek out some top 10 episode list of the original series and dip your toes in. If the age of the shw is too much check out the TOS movies. If the original crew are still not grabbing you start Star Trek The Next Generation. Don't skip the early seasons of TNG, just leave it on in the background until you find yourself focusing more and more on it.

If you wnat to ''get'' TNG fast, check out The Measure of a Man, I think it's a season 2 episode. That will give you a sense of what Trek is going for. At that point if that episode doesn't grab you then I doubt you'll like the rest of Trek as TNG is the foundation to which future series build from.

good post

Start with TOS. Trust me. It's not even that dated aside from the visuals, which aren't even that bad. The first ten episodes are a bit of a drag aside from a couple, but it gets much better afterwards. Then just go in order from there. You can watch TNG afterward or just watch the movies while going through it at the same time, like I am now. I'm currently just starting the fifth movie. So far, they've all been good, though four was my least favorite.

>Where do I start with Star Trek?
Chronological order.

as achronological order nut, i'd say no. even mores so now that Discovery is before TOS.

TOS - TNG, don't watch the TNG movies, avoid the abysmal DS9 and even worse Voyager, then watch Enterprise and Picard

>Where do I start?

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3. It's still very dated, but it's aged a lot less badly than the original series or the first two seasons of The Next Generation. It gives you a good feel for Star Trek and what Star Trek is about. Continue watching until The Next Generation season 7, then watch either Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise in any order.

Both Deep Space Nine and Voyager are set at the same time as TNG, while Enterprise is a prequel.

Then watch everything else.

>Don't watch the TNG movies

Star Trek Generations provides additional closure to the series.

Star Trek: First Contact is a genuinely good popcorn action flick. You'll liked it if you liked the second Alien/s movie.

Star Trek: Insurrection is optional viewing and does nothing for your understanding of the lore or attachment to the characters. Put it on in the background when you're washing the dishes or something if you really want to watch it.

Star Trek: Nemesis is the worst Star Trek movie ever made. Read a summary before watching Star Trek: Picard or Star Trek 2009 for context, but it's objectively a pile of half-assed crap.

OP, just remember that anything made after Enterprise is not Star Trek, it's fake Star Trek.

>Start with TOS
Dumb advice. TOS is visually the ugliest Trek series with a few good characters and stories, but it's much harder to get into than anything later. Save it until you've watched TNG all the way through.
If you insist on watching TOS first, start with the episodes "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "City on the Edge of Forever".

Maybe we should just have them watch one episode of the old shows. The penultimate of each.

TOS
>Balance of Terror

TNG
>The Inner Light

DSN
>In the Pale Moonlight

VOY
>Timeless

ENT
>In a Mirror, Darkly pt 1 and 2

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>Recommending an alt-universe episode as an intro to ENT
It's a good episode, but not a good introduction to the characters.

this is good aswell

Why would you recommend episodes that contain major spoilers? DS9 is the worst for this.

>Dumb advice. TOS is visually the ugliest Trek series with a few good characters and stories, but it's much harder to get into than anything later.
I don't get this meme. I started and finished it last year for the first time and genuinely loved it. It's not perfect and it's REALLY hit or miss but it still holds up completely fine. It also has something that TNG doesn't have with its own particular atmosphere. I suspect the other shows don't have quite the same atmosphere either, even if they still kinda have their own. TOS feels like a space show where the crew really is traveling the isolated expanses of space. I also find that the sci-fi can also often be harder than a lot of the stuff in TNG as well.

Here's a more broad Best Of list:

TOS
>The City on the Edge of Forever, Space Seed, The Trouble with Tribbles, The Gamesters of Triskelion, Errand of Mercy (take your pick)

TNG
>Ensign Ro, Q Who?, The Best of Both World Part 1 and 2, Unification Parts 1 and 2, All Good Things Parts 1 and 2

DS9
>In the Hands of the Prophets, Inquisition, In the Pale Moonlight

VOY
>Year of Hell, Parts 1 and 2

ENT
>Google and binge all Temporal Cold War and Xindi War eps

TOS
>Balance of Terror

TNG
>The Inner Light

DSN
>Duet

VOY
>Counterpoint

Beyond TOS, are the rest of the series all "adventure of the week" types? Nothing wrong with that, but I feel like I've had my fill of that with Twilight Zone and X-Files. At least X-Files had an overarcing story, though. Does Star Trek have one?

"Penultimate" means second to last fyi.

TOS, TNG, VOY are all "adventure of the week"

DS9 is the one that tells a single story over 7 seasons, and it's pure kino.

I choose them for different reasons. The VOY and ENT choices reflect some cross timeline stuff that gives a good overall universe feel. For TOS it is just a good episode with tension and the Romulans are important for Picard, which I think most new Trek people are going to watch first anyway. DS9 the same with the Romulans and just a really good episode.

Yes, so I was meaning close to ultimate.

DS9 has an overaching plot but there a lots of adventure of the week type episodes

Mostly in the first 2-3 seasons before the main story really gets going

sounds about right

This is a very interesting opinion

Has anyone compiled a good list of "core" TOS episodes for someone who wants to understand the setting and characters but doesn't have the time to binge all the episodes?

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>avoid the abysmal DS9 and even worse Voyager, then watch Enterprise and Picard

Imagine going into Pale Moonlight blind. That’d be fucked.
Just watch The Jem’Hadar, its a decent introduction to the serialized DS9 that everyone knows

even in the later seasons not every single episode is tied to the main arc

Where no Man has gone before
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
Arena
Space See
A Taste of Armageddon
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever
The Changeling
Mirror Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
The Trouble with Tribbles
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Those are some of my personal favorites. I'm sure I skipped plenty of good ones.

It’s an adventure/monster of the week formula.
You should watch “Journey to Babel” and “Amok Time” for backstory on Spock as well as general worldbuilding and lore if you’re going in blind.
“Arena” is a good Kirk-centric episode.
“Errand of Mercy” is an episode that gets to the core of “what Star Trek is really about”. “The Cage” is an abandoned pilot episode that became an unofficial prequel episode and ties into the “Menagerie” two-parter. “Space Seed” introduces the villain of the second original Star Trek movie.
“Trouble with Tribbles” is the quintessential comic relief episode that gets referenced across multiple spinoff series and movies. “City on the Edge of Forever” (award winning script by Harlan Ellison) and “Assignment Earth” are key time travel episodes.

I dunno. Grew up watching random episodes of TNG with my Dad and just went from there.
>tfw he'd take my brothers and I to the theater any time a new TNG movie came out.

Just WTF was wrong with people in the 60's?

DS9 has an overarching story introduced in season 3 and picks up seriously after that, with a lot of B-plots and filler.

ENT has two major story arcs (Temporal Cold War and Xindi War) and several 3-parters in its last season.

Both Discovery and Picard have season-long storylines. Fair warning that Picard’s storyline is a clusterfuck of concepts and ideas that the writers struggle to neatly fit together.

For me it goes
DS9 Post Beard > TOS = TNG > Enterprise > DS9 Pre Beard > Voyager

Literally nothing, it's all been downhill since then

It was a pretty cool time ya little whippersnapper SHIT.

god look at those hobbits shake their little asses

responsible for the absolute STATE of the west

I showed my parents "The Inner Light" from TNG years ago and while it didn't get them into Star Trek, it did get them to understand why I watched it.

Oh boy....