Broken Bow - Endgame

[darkshadow0001]

Has anyone ever attempted to watch everything Star Trek from Broken Bow to Endgame, including the movies?

Once I was going to watch all of the films in one sitting (that was before "Generations" came out) but never attempted it. Just curious!

 

[P0sitr0nic]

I HAVE watched everything from Broken Bow to Endgame/Nemesis, but not all in one sitting. I did it over a few weeks.

 

[darkshadow0001]

P0sitr0nic said:
I HAVE watched everything from Broken Bow to Endgame/Nemesis, but not all in one sitting. I did it over a few weeks.

Did you watch them in order, and if so, was continuity really all that bad throughout everything?

 

[trekkier]

i actually watched all of them in order (by series) and i found that continuity wasnt THAT much of a concern for me i just sat along and enjoyed the ride. btw it took me about 9 months to finish everything haha

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Yeah, I watched em in order as I got the sets. And no, theres really not a whole lot of internal conflicts in Continuity. It was really a blast to see it all in order again. (I watched it all first run, except TOS)

 

[Squiggy]

P0sitr0nic said:
I HAVE watched everything from Broken Bow to Endgame/Nemesis, but not all in one sitting. I did it over a few weeks.

You'd have do to it over the course of several weeks considering that all canon trek is 722 hours and 4 minutes (considering episodes are 60 minutes). Now, if you take out the original stop sets you would get about 45 minutes of Trek an hour or 541 hours 30 minutes, adding the remaining 4 minutes from the movies and it would take 22 days 13 hours and 34 minutes to watch all Trek in order non-stop without time for sleeping and pooping (etc).

Now, if you wanna be "sane" (relatively) about it and only watch Star Trek for 12 hours a day (leaving you plenty time for sleep and food and pooping and not being a social-stigma) it would take 1 month, 15 days, 3 hours, and 4 minutes.

 

[mythme]

I did this while writing my Trek chronology. I began it when the Animated Series was released on DVD. After buying it and then owning it all, I began with Broken Bow. Since I was taking notes, I wasn't just watching for enjoyment but paying CLOSE attention to every line and nuance. On average I watched 2 episodes a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on my personal schedule and the complexity of details found with each episode. It took me roughly a year and a half. My conclusion; I found that Trek has extremely tight continuity. There's only a handful out outright flubs and a lot of those aren't very consequential anyway (like the existance of cure for the common cold, for example). Other instances can be explained with only a dash of suspention of disbelief. IMO the worst culprits for bad continuity and illogical events are the movies.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Didn't Broken Bow come out after Endgame? Wouldn't that lead to a period of negative time?

Or am I too drunk to understand?

 

[JiNX-01]

TremblingBluStar said:
Didn't Broken Bow come out after Endgame? Wouldn't that lead to a period of negative time?

Or am I too drunk to understand?

I suppose the OP was starting at the beginning -- 22nd century trek -- and finishing up in the 24th century with the last events of that era's Trek.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I've seen them all but not in order, and it took me damned near 37 years to do it; I hope I have time to watch them again. All though I'm sure I could shave a little time off by skipping Enterprise; Now there's four years I'll never get back.

 

[Smiley]

I would never watch the shows in strict chronological order because I prefer not to break up a series. I have been watching everything again in the last couple of years. I watched VOY, TNG, and ENT. Later this year, I will watch TOS, TAS, the movies, and DS9.

 

[darkshadow0001]

P0sitr0nic said:
Yeah, I watched em in order as I got the sets. And no, theres really not a whole lot of internal conflicts in Continuity. It was really a blast to see it all in order again. (I watched it all first run, except TOS)

I didn't think there was much wrong with continuity with Trek, I wanted to make sure from someone who actually sat through and watched them all side by side. I just remember how people used to complain about Enterprise's continuity and I used to laugh about it :-)

 

[darkshadow0001]

TremblingBluStar said:
Didn't Broken Bow come out after Endgame? Wouldn't that lead to a period of negative time?

Or am I too drunk to understand?

Yeah but Broken Bow is the first adventure in Star Trek, so that's why that episode comes first.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

darkshadow0001 said:
I didn't think there was much wrong with continuity with Trek, I wanted to make sure from someone who actually sat through and watched them all side by side. I just remember how people used to complain about Enterprise's continuity and I used to laugh about it :-)

Star Trek's continuity holds up remarkably well, all considering.

Right now I'm watching TOS season 1 after finishing Enterprise last week. ENT's season 4 really sets up things well for TOS, everything from having seen the ENT(mirror)-crew awed by a Connie's technology to the appearance of the flat-forehead Klingons. Watching Trek in chronological order really adds another dimension to the experience.

 

[erastus25]

I'm in the process of doing that right now! I'm currently in the fifth season of TNG. However, I'm opting to watch Enterprise at the end rather than the beginning.

 

[darkshadow0001]

I don't know if I could do it. I love Star Trek, but I've watched it too much in the past that now I rent different stuff from Netflix and watch it instead. I still tend to watch the movies every now and then :-) I still even like to watch Insurrection a time or two. I love the film, I just wish they could of chose better music for it. That's the only thing about some of the TNG films, the background music sucked.

 

[flobo]

As a matter of fact, i just finished endgame 15 minutes ago.
It was a good episode, but too bad we didn't see voyager after it get to earth.
(I started with broken bow in april).
It will feel strange now that it's over, i have been watching at least 2 star trek episode / evening for almost a year.
Well, i almost forgot, there's still nemesis for tomorrow night.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

flobo said:
(I started with broken bow in april).

What is your view on how the series lead into each other?

 

[Son_of_Soong]

What do you do around the TNG/DS9/VOY era when a lot of episodes overlap each other. Did you figure out exactly which episode goes when according to stardates :-P

 

[Dane_Whitman]

I did. With episodes that don't give a stardate (DS9 has a lot of them) I would just estimate.

I seem to remember ST: First Contact and By Inferno's Light (which features a reference to the ST:FC Borg attack) don't jibe when comparing stardates.