Do you watch'em ALL?

[Lance]

One thing which does annoy me is that the DVD/Blu Ray sets of TOS present them in 'original broadcast order'. For a very long time it was kind of accepted that the best way to watch TOS was production order, all of the videotape releases were presented in this order for example and I remember even seeing them being shown in packages on TV in this order, but for some reason it changed to broadcast order when the DVD box-sets came along and has never gone back. I appreciate the nostalgia value etc in watching them in the order in which they originally went out back in the sixties, but personally I do think production order presents the episodes as a more logical narrative and thus I find myself having to constantly switch back and forth between discs to watch it that way. How irritating!

 

[Amaris]

I watch it via Netflix, and there are a handful I never watch, but otherwise, all the rest get a viewing every so often.

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

I never really understood the 'broadcast order' or 'production order' thing. If I mail Christmas cards to friends, I don't send to them in the order that I met them. On the other hand, since I send them in the order I write them, I guess that would be in 'production order'.

For the most part, I tend to go 'random' much like Makarov. Back in the late 70's and early 80's, when I'd given up watching Star Trek, I remember coming home one night and wanted to watch a little television. Lo and behold, This Side of Paradise was on, and that episode, for whatever reason, got me back into Trek. Random has value, too!

 

[Amaris]

I never really understood the 'broadcast order' or 'production order' thing. If I mail Christmas cards to friends, I don't send to them in the order that I met them. On the other hand, since I send them in the order I write them, I guess that would be in 'production order'.

For the most part, I tend to go 'random' much like Makarov. Back in the late 70's and early 80's, when I'd given up watching Star Trek, I remember coming home one night and wanted to watch a little television. Lo and behold, This Side of Paradise was on, and that episode, for whatever reason, got me back into Trek. Random has value, too!

The good old "Close your eyes and pick a title at random" ploy!

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

The good old "Close your eyes and pick a title at random" ploy!

That's a fun way to play darts, too!

 

[Enterprise is Great]

The first time I buy a season set I'll watch every episode but after that I watch the episodes I like. I usually wind up watching almost all of them. There's very few total stinkers (but tons of mediocre ones)

 

[LOKAI of CHERON]

Eventually I'm going to rip these episodes onto a hard drive so I can watch in any order without having to swap discs.

I've already done this for all of Star Trek - I can highly recommend it! Like BillJ, I can jump around the franchise at the touch of a button. Instant play back.

I was thinking of getting a 3-5 TB external drive from Seagate. What do you use? I assume you rip only the episodes with the 7.1 mixes without compression. How big is each episode, about 8GB?

I can go all the way with these rips. I have the software to revisit season 2 by tweaking the episodes - cutting out the substandard stock model shots and dropping in the better ones from seasons 1 and 3, and improving the lighting for the unique shots that can't be replaced. That would eliminate most of the bad shots. Plus I could tweak the DNRed shots by adding a light layer of grain to improve consistency.

Another tweak would be to go back to episodes like Encounter at Farpoint, Sins of the Father and The Inner Light and swap out the CGI with the improved shots that were used later in the show. I could also go back and get rid of nearly all of the blurry 4-footer shots that were seen throughout seasons 4 and parts of 5 with the improved CGI version.

It'd take a long time, but would be worth it in the long run.

My current media player has two hot swap bays for 3.5" HDD's, and a few USB's for external drives. I have a Western Digital internal 4TB I've allocated just for Trek.

I literally have "the lot" on it. TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT and the movies - deleting and replacing standard definition episodes as the new BD's are released.

I rip completely uncompressed (never compromise on quality), but mux all but the video and DTS master audio streams out. So, all subtitles and alternate audio tracks are dropped etc. On TNG, there are no forced subs to consider.

I use MKV as container, which creates a slightly smaller file - and over hundreds of episodes is actually a fair saving of space. The average HD TNG works out to about 7.3GB in this "stripped down" form. I'm not sure yet, but if TNG turns out to be the final Trek brought to us in HD - a 4TB drive should be just enough to squeeze all of Trek on!

Good luck on your editing project. I've done a few "fan edits" on movies I own, and although they've turned out really well, I just couldn't imagine doing it for all those episodes! I definitely wouldn't have the patience.

 

[bbailey861]

I do watch them all, and coincidentally, I am almost through another complete run through of TNG - midway through season 7. Today's episode will be "Sub Rosa", which, also coincidentally, is not one I particularly care for.

 

[jimbotron]

I use MKV as container, which creates a slightly smaller file - and over hundreds of episodes is actually a fair saving of space. The average HD TNG works out to about 7.3GB in this "stripped down" form. I'm not sure yet, but if TNG turns out to be the final Trek brought to us in HD - a 4TB drive should be just enough to squeeze all of Trek on!

Hopefully that 'if' doesn't turn out to be true! Thanks for the info. The show should then be around 1.1TB when fully released. TOS is what, 525GB?

Flipping discs for movies isn't a big deal to me, except maybe movies that are split across two discs, like LOTR. Huge convenience for a TV show though.

 

[VORTEX8472]

I jump all over the place. I might go from "Where No Man Has Gone Before" to "Death Wish" to "Basics" to Star Trek: The Motion Picture to "Q Who" over the course of a few days.

My mood decides what I watch, not production order.

I find your experience of subjectively picking eps to watch is very much the way I choose what to revisit. Lately I've enjoyed introducing the world of Trek to my 9yr old nephew, he really enjoys the characters and has some interesting opinions about the stories; almost feels like I am experiencing the show all over again. As I said to my nephew, "when it comes to Star Trek, resistance is futile."

 

[JesterFace]

Am I a TNG fan anymore?

I worship the episodes I watch but these days there are only about 35 of them "on the list" that I watch... and worship. Still, best TV series ever.

(did I just answer my own question...)

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

Today's episode will be "Sub Rosa", which, also coincidentally, is not one I particularly care for.

Might not be at the top of too many peoples' 'best episode' lists, but Gates looks utterly gorgeous in it.

 

[Sistrin]

I own most of them on DVD but given all of the series are on Netflix when I am in the mood for Trek I usually watch them there.

 

[Jewel]

No, I don't watch all of them. The first TNG episodes I ever saw were the later seasons, and the first season seems like a completely different show to me -- and not in a good way. And I'm not a fan of season 2 at all. I usually pick and choose from Prime, but I'll watch a BBC episode sometimes even if it's not one of my top picks (but I still tend to skip seasons 1 and 2, with a couple of exception).

 

[jimbotron]

Production order makes sense .... until you get to Unification.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I do watch them all, and coincidentally, I am almost through another complete run through of TNG - midway through season 7. Today's episode will be "Sub Rosa", which, also coincidentally, is not one I particularly care for.

The Crusher orgasm scene alone makes it worth watching.

 

[GalaxyX]

I would consider maybe about 10 episodes per season are watchable, and out of those 10, maybe 3 or 4 are phenomenal.

Code of Honor is bad, but doesn't seem to bother me too much, so I've re-watched it a couple of times.

Justice is cool to watch for the god space station scenes.

Angel One is horrid, I actively make a point to skip that stinker of an episode.

I think it's called "Too short a season"? The one with the admiral that gets younger? Ugh! horrible, only seen it twice in my lifetime. Zero desire to watch it again.

Most of the Lwxanna Troi episodes I usually skip. Most of the Deanna episodes aren't that good either. The Outcast was pretty bad, but tolerable, I can sit down and watch it if it's on TV. I won't actively put it on from DVD.

I'm sure there's a whole bunch more.

 

[GalaxyX]

I do watch them all, and coincidentally, I am almost through another complete run through of TNG - midway through season 7. Today's episode will be "Sub Rosa", which, also coincidentally, is not one I particularly care for.

The Crusher orgasm scene alone makes it worth watching.

That's the only reason I watch it

 

[jimbotron]

I enjoy it for the anachronistic Scottish sheepherder stereotype.

"DINNAE LIGHT DAT CANDLE!"

 

[BillJ]

Production order makes sense .... until you get to Unification.

Well... "Symbiosis" is shot after "Skin of Evil".

 

[Seven of Five]

Maybe Tasha's a zombie?

(I did like her 'real' final scene in that episode where she waves madly in the background.)