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The only way it’s going to make sense is if you watch it in chronological order. So you have to start with Enterprise.
That sounds like a long road
getting from there to here.
I have never watched a single star trek thing and the only knowledge I have about it comes from you guy’s memes
I never was into it, always a Star Wars kid. My gf dad had episodes of TAS going one day and I got sucked into it to my surprise, i didnt think I’d appreciate a show that I always saw as old and kinda cheesy. I watched a few more episodes and really liked it. He did me a big favour, told me even if I wasn’t going to watch it all at once, he said watch space seed the episode, then go watch the first two movies. What an epic, you get a great introduction to Star Trek and one of its greatest villains Khan.
After that I tired TNG but didnt like it, don’t like most Star Trek, I always go back to the original. I did watch discovery with my wife and it was ok, but strange new worlds is my second favourite now.
You should check it out. Star Trek has some damn good media.
Arguably starting with TNG’s Encounter at Farpoint is a good place
If you insist on watching TNG from the beginning, be warned the first two seasons are a bit rough and there’s that one “Then we went to the black people planet and got blacked at” episode which even the cast of the show hates that episode.
TNG first season? Eww
It’s rough. When my wife set out to get me into Trek, she explained about TNG (and Voyager for that matter) taking a while to get going. That did help me get through until it got good.
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).
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
I guess I stumbled upon Star Trek on TV here and there, but I really started caring after watching the JJ Abram’s trilogy. There is probably no worse point to enter, but I swear it has its moments
Those movies are so forgettable to me, but I do frequently hear that they were a gateway drug for many people so they’re ok with me!
The most wrong is Star Trek: Straight New Worlds.
What?
You just start at the beginning of one of the series.
If you like new stuff: Strange New Worlds
If you like animation: Lower Decks
If you enjoy older series: The Next Generation (+Deep Space9 + Voyager)
If you enjoy really old series: The Original Series
I only very casually like Star Trek and have never been confused when watching any series from the first episode.* I don’t know about all these fancy new Treks, but TOS, TNG, and DS9 were intentionally designed to be picked up during any random episode because that was how TV worked at the time. If you found a show during its fifth episode, you had no means of going back to the first four unless you happened to know someone who recorded them on VHS.
Lower Decks was also completely enjoyable to me even though my knowledge of the franchise is limited.
* I think it was Discovery we tried watching somewhat recently (not 100% sure on the title) where I was confused from the first episode, but it was in a “What the fuck are these creative choices?” and “Do people like this?” way.
What?
You just start at Star Trek The Animated Series
If you like new stuff: Star Trek The Animated Series
If you like animation: Star Trek The Animated Series
If you enjoy older series: Star Trek The Animated Series
If you enjoy really old series: Star Trek The Animated Series
Yeah, I started with TNG a year or two ago. I’m now halfway through season 4 of Voyager, just from watching an episode every few days whenever I have time. Eventually I’ll move on to DS9, before digging into the movies (which I have simultaneously heard are incredible and hot garbage, depending on the individual user’s preferences) and the newer stuff.
The movies alternate between incredible and hot garbage, but all of them are worth watching.
Start with Wrath of Kahn.
Sure. It’s a sequel to a Franchise: The Movie. It is also a direct sequel to a random episode of the show. It is a self-contained story; I don’t think it bothers to mention the events of The Motion Picture, it does a good job establishing the antagonist because this movie came out in 1982, it’s entirely possible that even a Trek fan in the audience missed that one episode of a 20 year old TV show so there’s a whole sequence where Kahn puts Chekov on his knees and recites “I am the very model of a vengeful space antagonist, I blame the death of my wife on the deeds of the protagonist. I quote from Melville’s Moby Dick completely unironically. I grapple thee, I stab at thee, I spit to my last breath at thee.”
Beyond beating the audience over the head with its literary references (to the point of showing a copy of Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities on screen YOU FUCKING HACKS) it does a reasonable job of world building, and the rest of the franchise refers back to this movie a lot…to the point of remaking it twice.
It’s a self contained plot that comes to an end…even though it has two direct sequels. Search for Spock is where we get fully formed modern Klingons complete with their language, and The Voyage Home is weird, but also kind of cool, and probably the most Star Trek of the TOS era movies…I also believe Voyage Home has the best soundtrack of a Trek film.
Yeah great suggestion, Wrath of Khan is an excellent entry point.
The enterprise being an underdog the entire time is a great showcase for the best of trek: the crew and the problem solving 👌
fun fact: Undiscovered Country features the only instance of Kirk’s Enterprise arriving to a battle in fighting trim amd ready for combat.
…And still gets its ass handed to it because they show up and are like “Well now what?” Because the Klingons are perfectly invisible.
We’re all getting the Star Trek experience of the early 21st century troubles.
No no no. The correct place to start is with A Klingon Challenge. The only way to get sucked into the universe is interactively!
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I tried that and accidentally experienced Bij (it worked and now I love all the series).
In my time we started most shows in the middle of whatever season was on when you stumbled them while flipping channels.
But also shows were made for syndication, so most didn’t have overarching plotlines and it didn’t matter what order you watched them in. There might be one (heavily advertised) event a season that actually affected anything, and it’d be something like two characters getting married rather than something that fundamentally shook up the concept.
no, the correct answer is star trek online, klingon empire gorn science captain.
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.
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]
Someone had to protect Wesley from Picard.
All the high-maintenance staff are on the bridge.
It’s very obviously TNG. But after season 2.
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Nah, start from the beginning. When I introduced my partner to star trek, she loved the first TNG seasons, despite recognizing that the latter are better
The first episode also introduces every character.
It would be a miss for new watchers to skip it, even if some of you don’t like the episode.
The dish separation was what made me understand there was a lot more to Star Trek then I first thought and made me continue watching, even if it didn’t happen again.
Even though I think DS9 is objectively better than TNG, I would still recommend TNG to get into it, as the more exploration focus should appeal to a wider audience.
Also you can appreciate DS9 better as a contrast to TNG
A few of my very favorite episodes of Star Trek ever are in season 1, though. I wouldn’t skip it entirely!
- s01e11 Haven, because I love Lwaxana when she’s being mischievous
- s01e13 Datalore, for Spiner in his early glory
- s01e18 Home Soil, for a decent “murder mystery”
- s01e22 Symbiosis, seriously one of the best episodes of the whole show with a lesson on why the Prime Directive is important, plenty of Crusher vs Picard moral discussions, and an attempt at a sympathetic view on drug addiction (though a dated one now)
