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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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.