Star Trek episodes as audio-only?

[SoM]

Has anyone tried listening to any eps? Any ones which still work particularly well without visuals? Obviously, the more dialogue-based the better for the purposes - I'm thinking DS9: "Duet" might work, but general curiosity is at play...

(Being clear, I'm not talking about stuff recorded as pure audio plays, book readings, etc. I'm talking about TV episode soundtracks)

 

[2takesfrakes]

Audiobooks, or radio shows, are really the only way to go. Even if you know an episode like the back of your hand, there are cues that are visual, only and some dubbing of your own would be needed to fill in the gaps. Like, someone will say, "what are you going to do with that?" ... "You'll find out, soon enough!" but the lines explaining what's on screen just aren't there. I suspect for any and every episode, you'll have to dub narration in, yourself, or use lines from other shows to infer what's happening, if they can apply. And it's such a shame, because there are visually impaired people out there who'd appreciate STAR TREK giving them the original actors - all of them - in entire episodes for audio-only. But I've never heard of audiobooks ever being able to afford such an undertaking. And impersonations usually give themselves away ...

 

[Scotchy]

When I was a kid they released at least one vinyl record that had Star Trek adventures on them. I found one I used to own on Amazon:

I hadn't thought about these in decades until this thread mentioned audio adventures.

 

[eyeresist]

I did this once - recorded a TOS episode for a friend who wasn't there to watch it. Listening to it later, I found it worked surprisingly well.

The sound is as colourful as the picture!

 

[JesterFace]

Audio versions of Trek episodes could be fun for blind people.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Leonard Nimoy once said in an interview that Nicholas Meyer told him that most TOS episodes were like radio in that you could leave the room and still follow the plot by just listening to the dialogue.

 

[kguru]

I used to sometimes listen to TNG episodes in the car on the radio, as our local affiliate airing Star Trek was on Channel 6, which also was on the FM radio dial before the digital transition. It was possible to follow the story pretty well with just the audio. Once there was a new episode I heard in the car, and I visualized it a little differently from the actual episode. Most of the times I listened to the episodes, they were repeats, so I already had the visual elements in mind to use to follow along.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

I had a couple of threads about this.
one from 2010 in General Trek Discussion about TV episodes only not the feature films:
Audio-only Trek TV series experiences

and similar topics in Star Trek Movies I-X forum
audio-only listening of Trek film's soundtrack like a radio drama

Anyone else listen to foreign language audio for fun tohear audio mix?