If you watched DS9 beforeTNG....

[JesterFace]

I watched TNG before TOS....
If for some completely understandable reason you watched DS9 before TNG, I have a question for you.

Miles and Keiko, they are married and have a another child in DS9.
How did you like or react to episodes in TNG where they were involved? Almost like a prequel to the O'Briens.
For example in 'Data's Day' they get married.
In 'Power Play' Miles is taken over by an alien and behaves like a complete tool towards Keiko.
Molly is born in TNG. (Disaster)
Miles plays a big role when talking some sense to captain Maxwell. (The Wounded)

So you knew them from DS9 and then TNG comes along and shows parts of their history.

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[Oddish]

I watched TNG first as well. But it would give you an interesting perspective, wouldn't it? Especially once you got to TNG and O'brien's rank started fluctuating.

 

[somebuddyX]

Well I'm watching a lot of TNG for the first time now, having watched most of DS9 in the 90s. But I knew all the beats from the chronology or the encyclopedia or memory alpha. Also Keiko/Miles isn't really that different because they start on the day of their marriage. There's no dating or anything. They show up fully formed.
My big thing about TNG was appreciating how interconnected things could be in Season 3. There's so many nice callbacks. "Evolution" references the Borg. "Who Watches the Watchers" references Pulaski. You have Geordi and Christy a couple of times. Tomalak shows up a couple of times. "The Price" is like a setup of DS9. Wesley sasses Geordi about holograms or something in "Sarek." I loved it. Season 3 felt like a great mix of the Season 2 grit and later seasons character stuff really well done.

 

[Victoria]

I watched the bulk of the first season of TNG and then abandoned it because I wasn't enjoying it very much. DS9, on the other hand, engaged me from the off so I watched DS9 before going back to TNG.


There aren't very many episodes where there's background to DS9. I don't recall having any particular reaction to the O'Brien episodes as I knew O'Brien had come from TNG and that TNG came first. There are no major contradictions so no major problems. The episodes fill in the background but the same could be said of any "prequel" or "origin story" series and those are generally digested without major problems.


The Host was a problem as the Trill had been significantly changed for DS9 so that episode did jar. I find these days, on rewatching, that my head automatically thinks of the Trill of The Host as being a different race from the Trill of DS9.


Minor changes of make-up for the Bajora(ns) were neither here nor there. We see greater in-series changes all the time. The TNG Ferengi were very lightly sketched and had never been developed as a significant antagonist as originally intended so there were no problems for me with differences between TNG and DS9.

 

[CommanderTrip]

Didnt see DS9 before TNG, although DS9 was the first Trek series I finished from start to finish (Thanks Paramount Home DVDs circa 2002 ) I guess you could saw I saw VOY first, TNG/DS9 second, ENT third, and TOS last (That is, until the Kelvin movies and CBS AA/PP+ Trek)

That being said, it was always interesting to see how the pieces fell into place, and what led from here to there. Its interesting to flip it and see how things went from there to here. I think I just caught an episode of Seinfeld where they did everything in reverse chronology, and you saw the last scene of the episode first, and worked your way back to the first scene by the end. I think this is something of the situation you find yourself in when watching things out of order, whether it being viewing or chronological order.

I did see more of VOY, TNG, and DS9 than TOS. I also caught the later seasons of DS9 before I saw the earlier seasons. Similar to your question, anytime I saw a character, event, etc. that was eventually played out in the later shows/seasons, for me it was always an "ah ha!" moment, some more satisfying than others.

For example, I am pretty sure the first episode of DS9 I watched was "What you Leave Behind" Irony aside, after seeing Sisko in the Celestial temple talking to Kassidy, the younger me was internalizing "WTF is going on? Did he die? Is he coming back? Wait, that was the last episode of the show? I need more info!" Then working my way back through earlier episodes, I saw other instances of Sisko interacting with the prophets, his journey to Emissary, other characters visiting glowing white room of the Celestial temple, and it all just kind of clicked.

I think one of the more satisfying "out of order" watches for me is DS9 "Trials and Tribbulations" and TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles" I saw DS9 first, so this was my first exposure to the episode, setting, characters, etc for both shows. Years later, when I finally had the chance to watch the TOS tribble episode, it was satisfying to see how everything fell into place, and it gave me the first chance to see the TOS scenes without the DS9 crew. This viewing gave me a greater appreciation for what the DS9 production crew did with that episode. I was able to appreciate the subtleties with how the scenes blended the DS9 crew into the 60s footage. It was certainly was a leap beyond Voyager's TOS tie-in offering, although it was great to see Captain Sulu and the gang on the Excelsior on Voyager (and Kate Mulgrew in the Monster red .