Production order causes a couple of continuity issues.
How often do you watch TNG these days?
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Yes I've noticed a few errors! Can you tell me which ones to avoid? 
JB
JB
I watch all of Trek quite a lot. Seems like 2 to 4 episodes a week at least. Sometimes I lean more to TOS or DS9 but then sometimes it's TNG. Once in awhile it is Voyager but my favorite stuff with Trek is TOS,TNG,DS9 the TOS movies, TNG movie First Contact and the Kelvinverse movies. I think I like Picard next over the other stuff but it's still a new show so it's hard to judge. After that I kind of like Voyager and Enterprise when I watch it but never really desire to watch it. The TNG movies are the same. I also like the Short Treks. The Tribble episode is even one of my most favorite episodes in all of Trek.
Discovery and TAS are my least favorite. It's hard to watch them at all though Discovery has some characters I really like in Tilly,Stamets, Suru,Georgiou,Jett Reno and had Lorca and Pike but Burnham is a really boring series lead. While the writing has had issues almost all the others characters are interesting enough that you could still enjoy the show just for them but Burnham actively brings the fun down on the show.
Jason
Discovery and TAS are my least favorite. It's hard to watch them at all though Discovery has some characters I really like in Tilly,Stamets, Suru,Georgiou,Jett Reno and had Lorca and Pike but Burnham is a really boring series lead. While the writing has had issues almost all the others characters are interesting enough that you could still enjoy the show just for them but Burnham actively brings the fun down on the show.
Jason
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Yes I've noticed a few errors! Can you tell me which ones to avoid?
JB
Probably the biggest and most notable one is that Yar will appear in an episode after she dies. Then "Brothers" will happen before the Enterprise is still in space dock under going repairs from the Borg battle.
Yes the Yar thing I remember reading about but wasn't aware of the Brothers being out of place! Thanks.
JB
JB
Been watching four or five episodes a week lately. I don't do them in order. I usually just jump around to find episodes I like.
For a couple years now I've been wanting to do TNG in order, start to finish. But I never want to watch Encounter at Farpoint. Bleh. Just can't get it started. And so I think I'll just skip the pilot, but then you run into The Naked Now. So I'll start at.. OH FUCK THAT EPISODE. So we'll move on to... early Ferengi? No thanks. Oh, hey! Where No One Has Gone Before. The first one I kinda like. Cool, let's watch it. Now, Lonely Among Us? Nah. Justice? Nah. More early Ferengi? Nah. Maybe Hide and Q, but otherwise you're really getting to @1001001 before there's a for-sure worth watching again. Then hop to Arsenal of Freedom before we stop off at The Neutral Zone with @cooleddie74 to find us a couple low-mileage pit woofies and help 'em build a memory, aaaaaaaand we're just jumping through the series again.
For a couple years now I've been wanting to do TNG in order, start to finish. But I never want to watch Encounter at Farpoint. Bleh. Just can't get it started. And so I think I'll just skip the pilot, but then you run into The Naked Now. So I'll start at.. OH FUCK THAT EPISODE. So we'll move on to... early Ferengi? No thanks. Oh, hey! Where No One Has Gone Before. The first one I kinda like. Cool, let's watch it. Now, Lonely Among Us? Nah. Justice? Nah. More early Ferengi? Nah. Maybe Hide and Q, but otherwise you're really getting to @1001001 before there's a for-sure worth watching again. Then hop to Arsenal of Freedom before we stop off at The Neutral Zone with @cooleddie74 to find us a couple low-mileage pit woofies and help 'em build a memory, aaaaaaaand we're just jumping through the series again.
Once a week at present but once finished will use production order next (not that different I guess) plus the great but very strange BBC order!
JB
Others have already pointed out the continuity errors it causes if you sort the episodes by production numbers.
But even regardless of that, what is wrong or bad about starting with "Episode 1" then going to "Episode 2" "Episode 3" and so forth? Why the need to invent some sort of "special" viewing order, be it by stardate, production number or how long Deanna's hair is?
[*Nods in L.Q. "Sonny" Clemmonds*]
About viewing order of the episodes, I watch what episode I want when I want. 
It's easy.
It's easy.
I know what you mean about the viewing episodes! That's just me, at the moment I'm watching the third season in the order on the discs but sometimes it's more exciting to view them in an alternate order like the first season was shown on the BBC that I've read about! Way out of sync! 
But the rest of the series and repeat runs were in sequence!
JB
But the rest of the series and repeat runs were in sequence!JB
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Perhaps there is no one correct way to look the episodes. First in order the episodes were released originally, then selected favorites, then backwards from finish to start (there is time traveling going on in Star Trek) and then in the order the episodes were filmed, which I believe is different than the order they came out on TV.I know what you mean about the viewing episodes! That's just me, at the moment I'm watching the third season in the order on the discs but sometimes it's more exciting to view them in an alternate order like the first season was shown on the BBC that I've read about! Way out of sync!
JB
I have my own way and order of viewing the episodes but no one else has to like it.
Also there are many episodes I skip everytime.
Well yes I agree with that too, Jester!
JB
JB
About viewing order of the episodes, I watch what episode I want when I want.
I’ve been doing a full series rewatch (currently near the end of season 4). It’s been many years since I’ve done a deep dive on TNG and I’m very pleasantly surprised by how well it has aged. It may not have the scope or ambition of the later series but there’s a quiet excellence to it that’s utterly timeless.
I'm on season three at present and have never seen TNG all the way through! I've seen a few episodes of season six but on the whole I lost track at the end of five and don't ask me about DS9!!!! 
JB
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Honestly, I never revisited after All Good Things, and I didn't bother seeing Insurrection. I saw Nemesis at the dollar theater.
In the past I felt it became a little boring, because the crew were a little bit to perfect.
But I find myself strangely drawn to TNG these days because it is like a warm blanket that calms the mind.
Everybody onboard gets along with their co-workers, they make an effort to settle all conflicts in a civilized way. Everyone is kind, intelligent, discuss their disagreements civilized and constructive without shouting or petty squabbles we have nowadays.
But I find myself strangely drawn to TNG these days because it is like a warm blanket that calms the mind.
Everybody onboard gets along with their co-workers, they make an effort to settle all conflicts in a civilized way. Everyone is kind, intelligent, discuss their disagreements civilized and constructive without shouting or petty squabbles we have nowadays.
That's how I feel. I still like edgy stuff but I find myself drawn to more pleasant stuff as I get older or maybe more lonely and depressed. Of course I have kind of gone full circle because that was what appealed to me when I discovered it and Trek in general in High School back in 1994. It was really fun to discover something that was also at the top of the hill of it's popularity. Trek was never more popular I feel than during that 1993 to maybe 1996 timeframe.
Jason
Some people don't like people getting along despite it being in the very core of Star Trek, or so I've understood. People get along.
Writers might not like not having arguments all the time. "It's difficult to write stories like that." Well, if arguing is the only way to create stories are those writers in the right line of work?
Well the thing is for a good story you need a form of conflict.
However what I feel a lot of moderns hows forget is that conflict does not have to be the main characters constantly yelling/swearing at or scheming against each other. A conflict can even happen between to perfectly rational and sensible POVs. In TNG there frequently was conflict between the characters.
Just like the modern misconception that a "flawed character (TM)" has to swear, have a million vices (because that makes them "human(tm)" ).
The characters TNG had their flaws.
I don't think the characters is TNG sometimes feel a bit boring because they lack conflict or aren't "flawed" enough. I think that problem rather comes from the way the show was written. The writers didn't always seem like they wanted to explore/exploit all the facets the characters clearly had and sometimes it really feels like they just didn't realize what potential gems they had. Rather it seems that in a lot of episodes the writers just saw the characters as tools to move the plot along.
However in the episodes of TNG that do make use of the character's personalities and such, there you can see how you can have conflict without having to be "edgy" or "dark".
However what I feel a lot of moderns hows forget is that conflict does not have to be the main characters constantly yelling/swearing at or scheming against each other. A conflict can even happen between to perfectly rational and sensible POVs. In TNG there frequently was conflict between the characters.
Just like the modern misconception that a "flawed character (TM)" has to swear, have a million vices (because that makes them "human(tm)" ).
The characters TNG had their flaws.
I don't think the characters is TNG sometimes feel a bit boring because they lack conflict or aren't "flawed" enough. I think that problem rather comes from the way the show was written. The writers didn't always seem like they wanted to explore/exploit all the facets the characters clearly had and sometimes it really feels like they just didn't realize what potential gems they had. Rather it seems that in a lot of episodes the writers just saw the characters as tools to move the plot along.
However in the episodes of TNG that do make use of the character's personalities and such, there you can see how you can have conflict without having to be "edgy" or "dark".
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