50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread

[dahj]

On September 8th it will be exactly 50 years since Star Trek first aired, which I intend to use an as excuse to rewatch the series, and since everything is always more fun with other people I was wondering if there is any interest in a collective rewatch on these boards?

I propose the following rules:

• one episode a week, in production order
• you can watch the episode anytime during the week, whenever you can, whichever format you prefer... netflix, dvds, blurays, VHSs... remastered, regular, anything goes...
• the discussion for that week's episode would star each Friday

In effect, we'd be starting with The Cage, the discussion for which would start on September 9th.
Then Where No Man Has Gone Before, the discussion starting September 16th and so forth...

Strike that, to make things simpler and more commemorative the rewatch will proceed in broadcast order, each episode on the 50th anniversary of the original US airdate.

So... is anyone else perhaps interested?

Episode index:
00. The Cage
01. The Man Trap
02. Charlie X
03. Where No Man Has Gone Before
04. The Naked Time
05. The Enemy Within
06. Mudd's Women
07. What Are Little Girls Made Of?
08. Miri
09. Dagger of the Mind
10. The Corbomite Maneuver
11. The Menagerie, Part 1
12. The Menagerie, Part 2
13. The Conscience of the King
14. Balance of Terror
15. Shore Leave
16. The Galileo Seven
17. The Squire of Gothos
18. Arena
19. Tomorrow is Yesterday
20. Court Martial
21. The Return of the Archons
22. Space Seed
23. A Taste of Armageddon
24. This Side of Paradise
25. The Devil in the Dark
26. Errand of Mercy
27. The Alternative Factor
28. The City on the Edge of Forever
29. Operation -- Annihilate!

30. Amok Time
31. Who Mourns for Adonais?
32. The Changeling
33. Mirror, Mirror
34. The Apple
35. The Doomsday Machine
36. Catspaw
37. I, Mudd
38. Metamorphosis
39. Journey to Babel
40. Friday's Child
41. The Deadly Years
42. Obsession
43. Wolf in the Fold
44. The Trouble with Tribbles
45. The Gamesters of Triskelion
46. A Piece of the Action
47. The Immunity Syndrome
48. A Private Little War
49. Return to Tomorrow
50. Patterns of Force
51. By Any Other Name
52. The Omega Glory
53. The Ultimate Computer
54. Bread and Circuses
55. Assignment: Earth

56. Spock's Brain
57. The Enterprise Incident
58. The Paradise Syndrome
59. And the Children Shall Lead
60. Is There in Truth No Beauty?
61. Spectre of the Gun
62. Day of the Dove
63. For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
64. The Tholian Web
65. Plato's Stepchildren
66. Wink of an Eye
67. The Empath
68. Elaan of Troyius
69. Whom Gods Destroy
70. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
71. The Mark of Gideon
72. That Which Survives
73. The Lights of Zetar
74. Requiem for Methuselah
75. The Way to Eden
76. The Cloud Minders
77. The Savage Curtain
78. All Our Yesterdays
79. Turnabout Intruder

 

[SPCTRE]

I think that's a great idea.

 

[3D ChessMaster]

I would be very interested in this dodge as a way to review TOS, in the order as you described,
but wonder if might it be more straightforward (and similar to the original experience) to follow the original broadcast order dates plus 50 years I.e. Man Trap on 8th Sept 2016 Charlie X on 15 th September 2016 etcetera.
On the other hand the ST knowledgeable people on this board may well prefer the ( more informative)production order you suggest

 

[locutus101]

I am in.

 

[locutus101]

I would be very interested in this dodge as a way to review TOS, in the order as you described,
but wonder if might it be more straightforward (and similar to the original experience) to follow the original broadcast order dates plus 50 years I.e. Man Trap on 8th Sept 2016 Charlie X on 15 th September 2016 etcetera.
On the other hand the ST knowledgeable people on this board may well prefer the ( more informative)production order you suggest

That would mean it will take three years to watch the entire series.

 

[BillJ]

Seems like it should be in airdate order. The way people originally experienced TOS.

 

[Tallguy]

Seems like it should be in airdate order. The way people originally experienced TOS.

As I mentioned in another thread, I'm hitting them all on airdate.

 

[locutus101]

Seems like it should be in airdate order. The way people originally experienced TOS.

In that case when would we watch the Cage? It was never aired.

 

[BillJ]

In that case when would we watch the Cage? It was never aired.

After "Turnabout Intruder", since "The Cage" did air in the 1980's.

 

[Tallguy]

In that case when would we watch the Cage? It was never aired.

1) You watch most of it with The Menagerie
2) You wait until 2038 for the 50th anniversary of its air date
3) It's not an aired Star Trek. It's a bonus feature. Like the unaired pilot version of Where No Man Has Gone Before.
4) Watch it the week before 9/8. That's this Thursday.

 

[locutus101]

1) You watch most of it with The Menagerie
2) You wait until 2038 for the 50th anniversary of its air date
3) It's not an aired Star Trek. It's a bonus feature. Like the unaired pilot version of Where No Man Has Gone Before.
4) Watch it the week before 9/8. That's this Thursday.

We have to agree on a date or it'll defeat this thread's purpose.

 

[Tallguy]

Then I'd say skip The Cage. It doesn't have a 50th anniversary air date.

 

[dahj]

If the majority prefer airdate+50y, I wouldn't mind that either.

I proposed a weekly rewatch because it would be perhaps easier for people to stick it out for a year and a half instead of three, but I forgot I'm talking to Trekkies here so commitment shouldn't be an issue

Doing both would be silly, so I'm hoping we can reach a consensus, so if anyone has any strong opinions either way please express them now.

If we don't reach a consensus, as a compromise we can always start the rewatch in airdate order, that way we can delay the decision for at least 12 weeks after which we'll see who's left standing

 

[locutus101]

If the majority prefer airdate+50y, I wouldn't mind that either.

I proposed a weekly rewatch because it would be perhaps easier for people to stick it out for a year and a half instead of three, but I forgot I'm talking to Trekkies here so commitment shouldn't be an issue

Doing both would be silly, so I'm hoping we can reach a consensus, so if anyone has any strong opinions either way please express them now.

If we don't reach a consensus, as a compromise we can always start the rewatch in airdate order, that way we can delay the decision for at least 12 weeks after which we'll see who's left standing

I think most people will be ok with the airdate+50y thing. I'd still like to watch The Cage first, we still have time for it before the first airdate.

 

[3D ChessMaster]

I would like the one episode a week option to go through TOS in 79 -80 weeks.
So initially it will be air date plus 50 year but for later shows we'd get ahead of that.
Am happy to go with the majority on whether broadcast or production order. Mildly prefer production order. Don't mind whether The Cage is included or not.

 

[locutus101]

I would like the one episode a week option to go through TOS in 79 -80 weeks
Am happy to go with the majority on whether broadcast or production order. Mildly prefer production order.

But if we want an accurate reenactment then on broadcast order is the only way to do it.

 

[3D ChessMaster]

In the UK we had TOS 3 years later and in yet another order! So I will be happy as long as we go steadily through the 79 episodes in some way.
I can see why Kirk says something to the effect that 'I'll ask when the ship Becomes a democracy ' in Corbomite Manoeuvre

 

[locutus101]

In the UK we had TOS 3 years later and in yet another order! So I will be happy as long as we go steadily through the 79 episodes in some way.
I can see why Kirk says something to the effect that 'I'll ask when the ship Becomes a democracy ' in Corbomite Manoeuvre

Sure, democracies are messy. Nothing says order like a dictatorship.

 

[Elder Knight]

I'd say preserve the actual air date, and if possible, the time. One a week, in-season. I want to (try to) experience ups and downs, wondering if the series will survive. Evaluate each new concept, character and so on as it/they appear.

We can do other models any time.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was also planning to watch on the 50th anniversaries of the airdates. I'm normally a production order man, but the 50th anniversary calls for a different approach...all the more so because the days and dates line up the same this year as they did in 1966, so you'd be watching on the same night of the week as well.

And I vote we leave "The Cage" out of it...fans got by for 20 years without "The Cage" as a separate episode. Most overrated DVD extra ever.