Production Order Group Viewing 2018

Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by Archivist13, May 8, 2018.

  1. Poltargyst

    Poltargyst Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I agree. Henoch is a fun poster to read.
     
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  2. Maurice

    Maurice Snagglepussed Admiral

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    A lot of fans didn't embrace Star Trek Animated even when it was on NBC. That and it never having been widely syndicated ensures that discussions about it are going to garner less interest.
     
  3. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

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    An older thread, granted, and a long one. Apologies if this has been covered.

    I'm wondering about viewing order, especially season one. Which do you all prefer, Air Date or Production Code? I ripped my TOS blu-rays some time ago, but I finally want to title them correctly, with episode numbers one way or the other.

    Stardate order would be ridiculous, since they jumped around so much, even in TAS.

    I have a spreadsheet showing airdate, PC and stardate (with a few missing stardates), so I have a reference.
     
  4. Phoenix219

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    I have always much preferred Production Order. More or less, you can watch the entire franchise in Production Order.
     
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  5. Ssosmcin

    Ssosmcin Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    They're digital files now. If you have the drive space, duplicate them. Tag one for airdate and the other for production. Problem solved.

    As for my personal preference, depends on whether or not I'm gonna do a rewatch. Mostly, I watch what I'm in the mood for and after about halfway thru season one, it really makes no difference what order they're in. But if I'm gonna do a full series review, then it depends: do I want to recreate the NBC experience or watch the show and characters evolve?
     
  6. Mytran

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    Has it really been nearly 3 years since this project? Wow!

    However, I'm still firmly in the "Production Order" camp. The characters do continue to develop and S2 & S3, albeit less dramatically than early S1. It's also fun (for me) to see the sets slowly change over the weeks - nothing's ever set in stone! :biggrin:
     
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  7. 1001001

    1001001 Serial Canon Violator Moderator

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    You have been around long enough to know better than to resurrect a long-dead thread like this.

    I'll let this one slide, but please don't do it again.
     
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  8. 1001001

    1001001 Serial Canon Violator Moderator

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    That’s enough.
     
  9. Ar-Pharazon

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    But it was a perfectly good thread, just sitting there ;) Plus, at 3 years, it still had some meat on it.

    Yeah, I've heard production order might deal with slight changes to uniforms or sets better. It seems like season 1 has the most obvious differences between air date & production order. S2 and S3 have a few out of order, but not as bad.
     
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  10. 1001001

    1001001 Serial Canon Violator Moderator

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    Yeah, but the Boss has been very clear about this numerous times.

    Next time, please just start a new thread with a link to the old one, as the rules say to do.

    Thanks!

    :techman:
     
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  11. drt

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    I prefer production order, particularly for the first season. I find airdate order too distracting with the back-and-forth changes. Also, you can justify some of the early installment weirdness to the mission and crew being new and folks not having settled in yet.
     
  12. Poltargyst

    Poltargyst Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    I prefer production order.
     
  13. Poltargyst

    Poltargyst Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    What is the reasoning behind not posting to old threads?
     
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  14. 1001001

    1001001 Serial Canon Violator Moderator

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    Let’s not derail this, or make me regret giving some slack this time.

    You can look through the QSF forum, where this has been addressed many, many times.
     
  15. Ssosmcin

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    This is the first time I've ever heard that. Source?
     
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  16. mb22

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    According to local NYC listings (courtesy of Newspapers.com) viewers there saw "The Man Trap" on September 8, along with the rest of the US (unless there was a hitherto unreported last-minute switch, I think it's more likely that your source was mistaken).
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  17. Noname Given

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    Production only honoring really matters for the first 13 or so episodes of the first season. The first six actually shows some linear character development with characters like Sulu and Rand.

    After that, yes everything else is a self-contained episode and the order in which you watch them during a season honestly doesn't matter.
     
  18. plynch

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    I’d agree.

    Once you clear WNMHGB and get Uhura out of gold, even. Maybe get through the Rand era. After that the show feels/sounds/looks about the same through S3
     
  19. Ssosmcin

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    Gotcha.

    I'm thinking she missed the premiere. The NBC promo spots announced the premiere as September 15th because The Man Trap was aired during "Sneak Peek at NBC Week" the week before. She didn't check her TV Guide and missed the actual premiere.
     
  20. ZapBrannigan

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    Production order puts the proper distance between WNMHGB and "Charlie X," which both use the same basic idea: coping with a guy who has super powers and turns bad. They would never have filmed those two scripts consecutively like the aired order. They were meant to be far apart.

    When 'The Alternative Factor" came along, the NBC rep, I think it was Stan Robertson, actually complained that this was already the fifth one with a double or "evil twin" gimmick. It was hard not to repeat ideas.
     
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