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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If you remember enough about the characters you could probably skip to the movies- if not watch Trouble with Tribbles which is a fun enough episode and should refresh you.
The 1st Star Trek movie is very 70s, I'd suggest skipping to Star Trek 2- really all you need to know from the 1st movie is they "retrofitted" the Enterprise so it doesn't look like the TV show. However 2 is a sequel to the episode Space Seed (which is a good one) so watch that if you don't know who Khan was. Watch films 2-4 & 6 and that raps the TOS films.
Watch TNG pilot, then skip to eps 9 & 10, (11 introduces Troi's mother who's a good recurring character but I think you can skip this one and not miss much) 13 to meet Data's brother, the last episode brings the Romulans back but I imagine you can skip it without missing much. There's a smattering of good eps in there ("The Arsenal of Freedom" is one of my favs), ep 23 Skin of Evil has a major death but the episode is not great.
For s3 jump to ep 3, 8, 9, 11, 16 is a very important one that intos a major villain race (always watch the Q episodes, this doesn't apply to Voyager), 19 has Troi's mom in an ep that doesn't suck, 20, I like 21, the final ep is a clip show so skip.
Season 3 then gets fairly good, 4-6 is really good then most of 7 is a lot of shit as they were focusing on the finale- which is probably the best series' finale I've ever seen.