How do you arrange your Star Trek DVDs/Blu-Rays (OCD question)?

[Turd Ferguson]

For starters, I'm a little OCD when it comes to my DVD/Blu-Ray collection. Every title has to be in alphabetical order, and sequels only go next to the previous movie if they are arranged that way alphabetically. For example, Blade would go next to Blade II, but Casino Royale would go between Casablanca and Catwoman, while Quantum of Solace would go between Punisher: War Zone and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Remakes I treat a little differently. Rob Zombie's Halloween remake I place after Halloween: Resurrection and the Evil Dead remake I place after Evil Dead II.

Now, my dilemma is, on my Blu-Ray shelf, I have Star Trek Seasons 1 - 3, Star Trek: The Next Generation Seasons 1 - 3, Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 and the Original Series and Next Gen movie collections as well as Star Trek '09. Now, how do my other OCD minded Trek fans place these? Chronologically? Alphabetically? Some other order?

In my shelf, Star Trek comes first. Then, the Star Trek: Original Movies come after, followed by Star Trek: The Next Generation, then the Next Gen movies. Here's where it gets tricky. In my mind, Enterprise works as a prequel and sequel, but since elements of it take place in the distant future, it comes after the Next Gen movies boxset. Naturally, Star Trek '09 takes place after Enterprise in the rebooted timeline, but Spock and Nero come from the Next Gen 24th century. So, do you place Trek '09 after the Next Gen movies? If you do that, then where do you put Enterprise? Before TOS? Then, if that's the case, do you put Trek '09 between Enterprise and Star Trek: Season One?

Have I got you confused yet? Is anybody else as OCD as I am?

 

[F. King Daniel]

I put Star Trek after Star Trek: Nemesis, since the timeline reset stems from post-Nemesis events, and it's much more a new beginning than a prequel.

 

[Nerys Myk]

In universe chronological.(sort of) ENT, TOS, TOS films, TNG, DS9. VOY, TNG films. NuTrek.

 

[Orac]

Chronologically. All films made in 1920 followed by all films made in 1921 and so on. TV Shows made in any given year go after the films. An ex of mine tried to rearrange my dvd's into genre and alphabetical order once. She's gone now.

 

[Galileo7]

In universe chronological.(sort of) ENT, TOS, TOS films, TNG, DS9. VOY, TNG films. NuTrek.

That works.

 

[BillJ]

Mine are in a pile on my dresser.

 

[IzzyAtWarp9]

Well here's how I organise mine:
Step 1: Collect up all Star Trek DVDs
Step 2: Shove as many onto shelf as possible
Step 3: Any that don't fit, put in a basket by the tv so it looks like you're about to watch them rather than you've run out of space.

In an ideal world they would just be scattered all over my bedroom

 

[Data's Cat]

My DVD shelves are arranged by genre. Within the genres, things are arranged alphabetically.

I do keep serials together. Which of course means all Star Trek is together on one shelf. The movies are on the left, by date of release. The TV series are on the right, going by the release date of the first episode.

 

[Data's Cat]

Chronologically. All films made in 1920 followed by all films made in 1921 and so on. TV Shows made in any given year go after the films. An ex of mine tried to rearrange my dvd's into genre and alphabetical order once. She's gone now.

Everyone knows if they touch my DVDs, they will die.

Cool to see you have 1920's movies. I have a fairly extensive collection of silent films.

 

[Roboturner913]

Man, life is too short to spend that kind of time arranging your DVD collection.

I used to do that but then I had a child and he's always liked to take them off the shelf and throw them around. After a while I gave up having them organized, I'm just happy if they're all on the shelf. Blu-rays go together in one group, DVD's in another, that's good enough for me.

It's actually been nice though, because I'll be searching for one of the same old sci-fi movies I've seen a hundred times and because I have to search through a thousand DVD's assorted randomly, I will sometimes see something else interesting. I never would've watched There Will Be Blood otherwise and that's now one of my favorites.

 

[R. Star]

I have limited shelf space, so wherever there's room.

 

[Lance]

Broadly, I try to keep mine organized to genre. Comedies are all in the comedy section, sci-fi in the sci-fi section, etc. The only exceptions are particular series, like Star Trek or Doctor Who. But even then I'm flexible. I've got Doctor Who DVDs from multiple regions, and the spine variations drove me crazy, what with so many differences across the entire range. So I consciously decided to display them "by region" instead (so all the Region 2 ones together, then all the region 1 ones together, then all the region 4 ones together). It stopped giving me headaches then.

As far as Trek goes, looking through this thread I'm glad I'm not the only one who places the TNG movies after the TNG series. I wasn't sure if I was in the minority or not, and assumed that "most people" probably put movies I-X together in one group. Glad to see I'm not alone in prefering chronological order!

 

[Ethros]

I have my TV shows and movies seperate, so on my movie shelfs I just have the Trek films in release order I-X (don't own XI)
And for the TV shows I'd put them in chronological order myself, ENT, TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY (although I only own ENT 3&4, and DS9 3-7)

 

[sojourner]

I arrange mine by gender.

 

[MacLeod]

Alphabetically, with Star Trek (2009)following on from Nemesis. As for the Bond films, I've got them all together as the spines make up the 007 logo, and you can call them Bond 1, Bond 2, etc...

 

[mythme]

I have one of those 9 cubbie shelf thingies for all my DVD sets.
row 1:
cubbie 1 - Enterprise and a folder with DVD set bonus discs
cubbie 2 - TOS and TAS
cubbie 3 - TOS films plus NuTrek movies

Row 2:
Cubbie 1 - TNG seasons 1-4
Cubbie 2 - (has an Enterprise model in it)
Cubbie 3 - TNG seasons 5-7 & TNG films

Row 3:
Cubbie 1 - DS9
Cubbie 2 - VOY
Cubbie 3 - Misc discs like Trekkies, The Captains, Mind Meld, etc.

Once I've collected Trek on Blu-Ray this will change since the sets take up less space than the DVD versions (3 seasons of TNG on Blu-ray are about the same size as a single season chunky silver DVD box). So eventually I'll be downsizing. Maybe I'll put my soundtrack CDs in there.

 

[Madzilla]

I was actually talking to a Trekkie co-worker about this this week. He has them in in-universe chronological order (though not quite to the extent you describe) - so, ENT, TOS (though I don't think he has TOS in hard copy), TOS movies, TNG, DS9, VOY, nuTrek. Whereas I have them in IRL chronological order, so TOS-TAS-TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT. (I have similar cubby-shelves to the poster above so the movies have their own separate cubby. lol)

 

[Data's Cat]

In case anyone is interested, this is how I have my DVDs sorted (and I keep intending to rearrange the documentaries into sub-genres).

Action/Adventure

Animal Movies

Biography

Children's Features and Cartoons

Christian/Inspirational/Sentimental

Comedy & Romantic Comedies

Crime/Film-Noir

Documentary

Drama

Family

Historical Epics & Bible Stories

Holiday

Horror

Musical

Religious

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Apocalyptic
---sub genre Jungle Movies
---sub genre Star Trek

Silent Films

Suspense/Thriller

TV Classics

War - Civil War
War - WWII
War - Misc 20th Century
War - Other

Western

 

[Nerys Myk]

^Having worked in retail books and video I did that too, but the wife just didn't get it. So now its straight up alphabetical by title. Well, there are a few exceptions like the Bond films, which are listed under Bond.

 

[Orac]

Chronologically. All films made in 1920 followed by all films made in 1921 and so on. TV Shows made in any given year go after the films. An ex of mine tried to rearrange my dvd's into genre and alphabetical order once. She's gone now.

Everyone knows if they touch my DVDs, they will die.

Cool to see you have 1920's movies. I have a fairly extensive collection of silent films.

I've done this with my material possessions since I was a child, I still have boxes of comic books from the 1980's all in chronological order.