Thread 212100444

I never watched Star Trek as a kid, since I was a Star Wars kid.
A few years ago I watched TOS for the first time and I loved it. Then I went to TNG and loved that too.
Now I just finished Deep Space 9 and this is probably my favorite. What elevates it over TNG is that the to me this show was more consistent in quality.
I liked all the main cast and supporting cast. I need to hunt these shows down on Blu Ray/DVD, great stuff.
Not going to go straight into Voyager, gonna take a little break.

I just watched the documentary What We Left Behind on Youtube, which was also fun.

>>212100444 (OP)
Babylon 5 is so much better. Not even joking.

>>212100444 (OP)
TOS related Trek are the only ones worth watching and rewatching.

>>212100444 (OP)
These are indeed some great shows and I'm always glad to see more people getting into Star Trek. Voyager has some issues, but I liked it overall. The Tuvix episode, Chakotay Boxing, and the one where Paris and Janeway turn into lizards all pissed me off enough I had to take a break from the show before continuing.

>>212100565
I will check it out sometine.

>>212100583
I've enjoyed all Trek, though I have not watched any of the movies.

>>212100772
Some of the movies are great, keep watching Star Trek, just skip anything from the new era.

>>212101173
From what I have understood, the original cast movies are fun, but the TNG movies are crap.

>>212101791
the first two tng movies are great

>>212101822
I will give everything a try. Nu-Trek looks like it's mostly dark with no sense of fun, so I am not expecting much

>>212100444 (OP)
Just wait until you get to Farscape and Battlestar Galactica and you see what trve sci-fi is all about

Watch Lower Decks instead. It's...modern.

>>212102252
I have never watched Galactica, but did that show have a shitty ending? I remember vaguely hearing bitching about it. Or was that Babylon 5?

>>212104590
Babylon 5 was going to be canceled after the 4th season, so the writers crammed the 5th season's plotlines into the 4th season. Then the series was renewed anyway, so the 5th season feels a bit empty and meandering. A bit undercooked but not too bad.

Battlestar Galactica spends the whole series promising you that there is a grand plan in the works, then you finally find out that there is no plan at all and the writers were just making it all up as they went along. The ending is emotionally serviceable but plotwise you'll be dumbfounded and disappointed.

>>212100444 (OP)
DS9 is where Star Trek peaked.

>TOS
>TOS Films
>TNG
>DS9

That's all the Trek you need. Everything else is absolutely abysmal in quality.

>>212105076
1966 to 1999, the symmetry of the numbers is a beautiful sight to behold.

>>212105111
For some reason I keep thinking DS9 ended in the early 2000's even though my brain has on numerous times read 1999. Maybe it's because it was halfway through 1999 or something.

>>212105111
speaking of numbers

>>212104590
BSG is definitely worth of the watch, I avoided it for over a decade and just recently watched it. 8.5/10 overall. The ending is certainly quite dumb, but not that horrible that it isn't worth of watching. Some episodes on it are just absolute kino, though there are a garbage ones as well.

>>212105076
If you remove about 1/3rd of Voyager (mostly the Chakotay episodes and anything to do with Chakotay, like Seska and the Kazon) you get a mostly okay show. Never as good as TNG or DS9, but acceptable.

>muh Babylon 5
As a big B5 enjoyer and DS9 enjoyer; I love both equally. Also Farscape.

>>212105302
It would take a retarded Drazi to think Green Fandom and Purple Fandom are mutually exclusive. We can enjoy all colors because Humans Are Superior.

>>212105302
Farscape really deserves to be mentioned more often in these kinds of threads. Why bother trying to justify garbage like Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds, both of which are inferior to the worst Voyager episodes, when you've got Farscape right there?

>>212105352
And cracker's don't matter. I will say, Claudia whatever is a fucking terrible actress, easily the worst part of B5.

>>212104960
>Battlestar Galactica spends the whole series promising you that there is a grand plan in the works
What made me laugh is the intro to BSG literally said the cylons HAD A PLAN. What was this plan over the series?
>The plan of infiltrating and destroying humanity, check.
>Something, something, they wanted to have babies despite being super limited in this regard.
>So they had a farm of human women but were missing the ingredient of... love?
>So then they wanted the one baby that was born of cylon and a human to understand this.
>(But later we find out half of them don't even agree with this baby plan anyway because they have a civil war over it.)
>Then they kidnap that baby for reasons and people decide they need to fight a big battle to get the baby back.
>And the baby ends up the mitochrondrial "Eve" for most of humanity because God or the Gods think that the perpetual conflict between human and machines they build will some how be solved by this united being?
>Bonus: the real Earth was where a previous group of cylons were from who taught the newer cylons to become human for reasons and the fake Earth they eventually settled already had evolved humans on it.

>>212100772
Undiscovered Country is mandatory viewing as it illustrates the events that lead to the uneasy truce between the Federation and the Klingons in the TNG/DS9 era.

>>212105424
Because Tendi is hot.

>>212106333
You can jack off to your terrible toon porn without having you watch the show, tripsman.

>>212106370
I can do both.

>>212106955
As long as you do it at the same time. Be efficient. /tv/ needs you here and shitposting.

>>212100444 (OP)
I watched TOS as a kid, it used to rerun on weekend afternoons and I still love it. I remeber being pumped when TNG first aired as a kid and was just totally disappointed and gave up after first few episodes. I just could never get behind Picard. I never watched any of the other shows after TNG because they just seemed to be more of TNG and never returned to the adventuring of TOS..

>>212107509
Honestly, that's completely fair. The first season of TNG is stiff and awkward in a lot of strange ways. It does grow on you, if you give it time, but I had a similar experience trying to watch TNG when I was younger and just being really put off by how dumb the early episodes felt.

>>212107202
Way ahead of you. >>212087895

>>212107509
For a show about a stationary space station that never goes anywhere, DS9 probably has more adventuring and world building than any other Trek show.

>>212108600
but muh mall cops

>>212108600
Because it's so focused mostly on one corner of the galaxy, they're allowed to spend more time developing Bajor, Cardassia, and Ferenginar. TNG had to be somewhere else every episode and Voyager was predicated on the idea that they were moving as fast as possible through all these places.

>>212100444 (OP)
most boring show out there
if you think this show is good or deep maybe you got psyopssed because it has the word deep in the title
hearing bajor or cardasian for the 500th time made me want to rip off my ....
ds9 more like deep snooze nine

>>212108600
Just like TOS was "Wagon Train" in space, DS9 was basically "Bonanza" in space.

>>212109180
DS9 was The Rifleman in space. I have never seen The Rifleman but that's what it was.

>>212105424
wasn't farscape cancelled and thus never got an ending?

>>212109632
It got an ending with a follow-up miniseries, The Peacekeeper Wars.

>>212109632
Incorrect. It got a movie-length condensed mini series that act as a proper conclusion to the whole story.

>>212108907
You made up that bit about people calling it deep just so you could make that faggy remark about the word "deep" in the title. You should feel embarrassed.