the alternate factor

[Mytran]

If you fancy a rewatch of TOS in Production Order, we're doing exactly that over in this thread.

It's one episode viewed per week, so you should soon catch up (or just dive in regardless)

 

[johnnybear]

Have you ever tried Star Date order, Mytran? Or even BBC order, which really takes it to the limit!
JB

 

[Mytran]

I am tempted by SD order, but would have to decide on what to do with those poor episodes bereft of a Stardate!

 

[johnnybear]

There is a page on the net where they place them for you! But I don't see how you can watch in Stardate order when you're doing a TNG rewatch, no way! Too many anomalies!
JB

 

[Mytran]

There's a really colourful list here http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted.html
but it doesn't bother putting the "unknown" episodes into the mix. Personally, I would default to TOS Production Order for those instances (except for obvious conflicts), or Broadcast Order for 24th Century episodes.

TNG is generally not too bad for SD order, except for a couple of outliers in the first season. Perhaps there was space-dust on the screen in those instances, causing Picard to mis-speak?

 

[Phaser Two]

There's a really colourful list here http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted.html
but it doesn't bother putting the "unknown" episodes into the mix. Personally, I would default to TOS Production Order for those instances (except for obvious conflicts), or Broadcast Order for 24th Century episodes.

TNG is generally not too bad for SD order, except for a couple of outliers in the first season. Perhaps there was space-dust on the screen in those instances, causing Picard to mis-speak?

Is that right? I thought that TNG had all kinds of problems with stardates. Also, by "anomalies," JB may have meant to refer to episodes like "Yesterday's Enterprise," "Cause and Effect," and "Clues," wherein the events shown on screen never actually happened, or at least not to the knowledge of the crew.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm pretty sure aspects of the story have aged horribly, such as the use of women as sex objects in a slave trade

Eh?

The women weren't slaves. They wanted husbands, so Harry put them in touch with men who wanted wives. Nothing wrong with that. The women could have backed out of the marriages if they didn't work out.

Harry wasn't a pimp, he was a marriage broker.

 

[johnnybear]

There's a really colourful list here http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted.html
but it doesn't bother putting the "unknown" episodes into the mix. Personally, I would default to TOS Production Order for those instances (except for obvious conflicts), or Broadcast Order for 24th Century episodes.

TNG is generally not too bad for SD order, except for a couple of outliers in the first season. Perhaps there was space-dust on the screen in those instances, causing Picard to mis-speak?

That's one of the pages I went to for the full list but there are a couple of others which sometimes dispute that order and the like but in the end it's up to you isn't it?
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Is that right? I thought that TNG had all kinds of problems with stardates. Also, by "anomalies," JB may have meant to refer to episodes like "Yesterday's Enterprise," "Cause and Effect," and "Clues," wherein the events shown on screen never actually happened, or at least not to the knowledge of the crew.

Well yes and no, Phase! Coming of Age mentions events in The Battle but has an earlier Stardate!!! And I think there are a couple of other instances like that as well in the first season! I think the later seasons were almost as broadcast Stardate wise weren't they?
JB

 

[Marsden]

Eh?

The women weren't slaves. They wanted husbands, so Harry put them in touch with men who wanted wives. Nothing wrong with that. The women could have backed out of the marriages if they didn't work out.

Harry wasn't a pimp, he was a marriage broker.

Thank you! I don't know where this idea comes from, Harry didn't abduct them and keep them against their will.

And when you get right to it, human trafficking isn't some quaint thing that doesn't happen anymore, if anything it's worse and the slave trade is thriving in lawless areas like what was once Libya.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Thank you! I don't know where this idea comes from, Harry didn't abduct them and keep them against their will.

Nor did Asa Mercer.