Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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The good stuff is TNG and DS9, so I would start with those. The problem with TNG though is that the early seasons have some very shitty episodes.
There are tons of viewing/episode guides available, my recommendation is using one of them. Skip the very low rated episodes unless you like the theme of them (or the characters they focus on).
You an watch the TOS movies without having watched the TOS series.
I personally prefer ENT over VOY.
I abandoned DIS after 2-3 episodes, Picard after a season and haven't bothered with anything else.
ENT had so much potential until that idiotic time war nonsense.
It had so much potential until partway through the first episode?
It could have been a blip for a few episodes and ignored. When it took over the show, it became 'Not Quantum Leap' in space.
No - those are NOT the good stuff - those are early entries of America's descent into woke-ism.
Pushing such great ideas as it's ok to wipe memories of non-warp drive peoples to uphold the prime directive or that the prime directive is so benevolent that it's OK to have a duck blind in the middle of a growing civilization because "enlightenment".
So much so that Babylon 5 had episodes that direct called out such hypocrisy.
Both TNG and DS9, like TOS, have their good and bad episodes, but they're woke as shit. Voyager goes one step beyond (and kills all the white crewmen in epsiode 1) and it just degenerates from there.
If cheap effects turn you off I'd suggest that you're missing the point. ST:TOS wasn't about "effects" but about story. Yes some oft the fx don't compare to super whiz-bang CG. But that wasn't the point. It's the best they had at the time to represent actions in the story. See the remastered episodes of TOS if it's such a burden on you, but understand that the staying power of TOS (which launched TNG, DS9 , et; al) is its stories and actors and teaching new ways to think.
FYI, those are due to letting all of the main characters have a chance to write, and direct. Except Wesley.
So, institutional "SHUT UP WESLEY"? Good! :D
You joke. But, they didn't like him. It was long before woke.. But, he was woke. He's an asshole on reddit. He doesn't seem to realize the more he tells a story, the more unedited parts can be put together by people paying attention.
He had a chance, they stopped him. No one will discuss it! Notice he's barely in Picard.
People say the series they grew up with was the best, or even good.
The truth is that none of them are good shows, there are a few great episodes and tons of shitty episodes. We remember the good episodes, the bad ones are just forgotten and skipped over.
This is why the Original Series and Next Generation hold up over time way better than the others, because each series is more and more trying to tell a long-running story and they're all very bad at it.
The only place where I disagree is that DS9 had some really good long-running story arcs. (I would not say the same for ENT but ymmv) But yes, despite everything else that's wrong with them, the newer series would have been better off doing the one-shot episode format.
can agree with most of that... except when the "prophets" were involved, that was a plot point that just felt bad to me.
DS9 started out shit but when the introduced the Dominion got good and once the war starts it's pretty great.
Garak is probably my fav Star Trek character ever.