Ooh, TOS Season 1! Balance of Terror and The City on the Edge of Forever are probably the best, but my personal favourite is This Side of Paradise - love the wildly varying tone and awesome music.
Ooh, TOS Season 1! Balance of Terror and The City on the Edge of Forever are probably the best, but my personal favourite is This Side of Paradise - love the wildly varying tone and awesome music.
Ooh, TOS Season 1! Balance of Terror and The City on the Edge of Forever are probably the best, but my personal favourite is This Side of Paradise - love the wildly varying tone and awesome music.
i've heard so many good things about "city on the edge of forever"! I'm so excited to watch it : )
Ooh, TOS Season 1! Balance of Terror and The City on the Edge of Forever are probably the best, but my personal favourite is This Side of Paradise - love the wildly varying tone and awesome music.
i've heard so many good things about "city on the edge of forever"! I'm so excited to watch it : )
I just wanted to pop in and say that it totally warms my heart and makes me want to do a happy dance, seeing that ST09 is bringing in new fans to our beloved franchise!
I absolutely adored the new movie and knowing that its not only continuing the story, but also encouraging new people to watch the older series - it just makes me proud to be a Trekkie.
Like many of the others have already mentioned, we love hearing about newcomers' experiences, because it reminds us of when we were first watching each series (so basically we live vicariously through you) - and I want to join the other Niners in requesting that, in a few years (or however long it takes) when you start watching DS9, you pop over to the DS9 sub-forum and create a thread - we LOVE first-timers threads, and I truly look forward to reading yours.
Enjoy!
I had a problem getting past the old cheesy 1960s sets when I was a new Trek fan. So I wouldn't recommend watching the Original Series (Remastered) unless you have an affinity for 1960s or classic television shows.
My Recommendation After Watching Star Trek 2009....
1. Star Trek lV: The Voyage Home (The Movie)
2. Star Trek Vl: The Undiscovered Country (The Movie)
3. Star Trek: First Contact (The Movie)
3. Deep Space Nine Season 3 Cliffhanger (episode title "Adversary")
4. Deep Space Nine Season's 4-7
5. Voyager pilot episode (episode title "Caretaker")
6. Voyager Season 3 Cliffhanger (episode title "Scorpion Part l")
7. Voyager Season's 4-7
Side Note 1:
Well, here are some trailers from the above list to give you an idea...
VOYAGE HOME TRAILER:
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/trailer
UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY TRAILER:
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-vi-the-undiscovered-country/trailer
FIRST CONTACT TRAILER:
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-first-contact/trailer
DEEP SPACE NINE TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kebBWQfCM
VOYAGER TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1PX9E2RsgU
Side Note 2:
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend starting at the beginning of any of the Star Trek films either. Star Trek: The Motion Picture can be viewed as slow and boring if you are not used to Star Trek. And Wrath of Khan takes a good 20 minutes before it picks up. Plus, it helps to know what happened in the Original Series episode, too.
Also, I don't recommend watching Star Trek: Enterprise the TV Series until you have watched the other series in their entirety. Enterprise has had the weakest character development, acting, and unexplained story lines ever. It also had a knack for raising serious question as to it's canon (i.e. validity or believability next to the other Trek series).
As for the Next Generation: I would watch Seasons 3-7 to start.
So your viewing order should look like this for all of Star Trek....
1. Star Trek lV: The Voyage Home (The Movie)
2. Star Trek Vl: The Undiscovered Country (The Movie)
3. Star Trek: First Contact (The Movie)
3. Deep Space Nine Season 3 Cliffhanger (episode title "Adversary")
4. Deep Space Nine Season's 4-7
5. Voyager pilot episode (episode title "Caretaker")
6. Voyager Season 3 Cliffhanger (episode title "Scorpion Part l")
7. Voyager Season's 4-7
Then finish up your Trek viewing with....
1. Next Generation Season's 3-7
2. Next Generation Season's 1-2 (could watch after Season's 3-7)
3. Star Trek Movies 1-10 (Complete)
4. Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season's 1-3 (could watch after Season's 4-7)
5. Star Trek Voyager Season's 1-3 (could watch after Season's 4-7)
6. Star Trek: The Original Series Season's 1-3 (New Remastered Version) (Enhanced Special Effects, Picture, & Sound)
Bonus Series (That are not perfect but entertaining):
1. Star Trek: Enterprise Season's 1-4 (Complete)
2. Star Trek: The Animated Series (Complete)
Side Note 3:
Also. There is one more thing I would like to add: The best option in finding the episodes I mentioned (in the above list) when renting them from Netflix is to check out the detailed episode listing of each of the seasons. It is a feature you have to actively click on when checking out each of the TV series.
Anyways, I hope this was helpful.
Sincerely,
~LS.
So I'm brand new to the realm of Star Trek, I just recently watched the Star Trek (2009) a couple weeks ago and I loved it. I wanted to know what was the best way to get into the Movies/Series, and what I should start with.
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So I'm brand new to the realm of Star Trek, I just recently watched the Star Trek (2009) a couple weeks ago and I loved it. I wanted to know what was the best way to get into the Movies/Series, and what I should start with.
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Hi and welcome to trekbbs and the whole star trek franchise .
If I was u and would watch all the pilot episodes from each series TOS TNG DS9 VOY and ENT and after u seen them u can decide which one u like. Each series has it own unique story and cast.
Like myself i,ve watched all the series and films and enjoyed them all but u get to have favorites and likes mine are TOS TNG.
But the choice is yours so enjoy the trek franchise LLAP NS
Every Star Trek series is inconsistent in quality, every Star Trek series has its low points, seasons filled with too many episodes we'd like to forget. There's not a single Star Trek show that was great from beginning to end. The big advantage that TOS has over the other series is that it hit the ground running, it didn't have the luxury of relying on the name "Star Trek" to get viewers because that name meant nothing at the time. The first season of TOS is probably the most consistent first seasons of all the Star Treks, and one of the most consistent seasons in the franchise. There were episodes like Mudd's Women and The Alternative Factor that can be offensive or mind-numbingly dull, but every single season of Star Trek has at least two episodes that I can single out as being bad.I do not recommend starting out with the entire series. TOS is inconsinstent in quality, and watching the entire series strait through right after seeing the new movie may seem boring and ruin you on Star Trek (I know a lot of people here disagree).
Uh, she's already watching the Original Series last I checked. I don't think she needs anymore [sic] suggestions.
Star Trek Enterprise.
It's the most modern of the series', so should be easiest for a newbie to get into. It's a prequel set 100 years before Kirk's time, on an earlier starship Enterprise.
Some of the episodes in the first two seasons were terrible, but there are several good ones too. The third season, a 26-part epic mission to prevent an attack on Earth is, IMO, the best season of Trek ever and is more than worth getting through the worst of the early ones. The forth season is very good, too.
You don't have to have seen any other Treks beforehand (but you will have an occasional "eh?" moment, but if you stay on you'll get a few awesome "that's what he was talking about!" moments if you watch other series' and films). You already know who the Vulcans and Romulans are from STXI. That's all you need.
Any of the films work perfectly stand-alone. Even the ones that are sequels to episodes explain everything you need to know.
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