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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

Enterprise is the only series I watched start to finish first run before now. TOS and TAS are before I was born. I began watching Trek in TNG's final season and DS9's second. I stopped watching Voyager first run after the fourth season and didn't catch up on the remaining three until after the series ended.
 
Voyager and Enterprise are mine. I was born in 1991. I caught episodes of TNG on Rerun and bits of DS9, but Voyager was the first I remember watching all off.
 
I just can't complete Voyager. I try to do it once every year but stop after season 3
Season 4 is the best season! You can thank Seven of Nine for that. Then it begins to wear off after that. Plus I don't think Brannon Braga had the same grasp on Janeway as Jeri Taylor did. Season 7 is better than Seasons 5-6, but not as good as 4.
 
Barring an unforseen early death on my part I'll have seen every Trek series from start to finish during its initial run except for TOS and TAS. I wasn't born until TAS was airing its final episodes.
Which one did you like the most watching it as it came out? And did watching them again later change that impression?

Voyager and Enterprise are mine. I was born in 1991. I caught episodes of TNG on Rerun and bits of DS9, but Voyager was the first I remember watching all off.
Same here. Started in the middle of TNG S1 with daily episodes on a rerun, gave up on DS9 after the first few episodes. The VOY came out weekly, and the whole family was watching :D
ENT fragmented us - I watched them as they came out, others watched them later, or not all of them.

I just can't complete Voyager. I try to do it once every year but stop after season 3
Want some recommendations to sample later seasons?
 
Want some recommendations to sample later seasons?


Not really. Over the years Voyager has been rerun on commercial TV that many times I managed to cover the episodes I missed after season 3. I did get a boxset of the whole series last year as a xmas gift but even with that I just can't binge it.
 
I watched DS9 and VGR from start to finish during their original runs, though I missed a couple of episodes of VGR along the way when they'd do that wonky thing during the spring of popping in the occasional new episode surrounded by weeks of reruns. TNG I was there for the start and finish, but had a couple of substantial interruptions of regular viewing. ENT I bailed on for most of Season 3.
 
It's weird to think that PIC will be the first Star Trek series I'll have watched from start-to-finish during first run. Not including Short Treks.

Ditto. I started watching TNG in, I think, late S4 and had to catch up via syndication. DS9's timeslot kept getting jerked around, so I lost track at around S3/S4 and caught up years later. TOS and TAS via syndication. VOY and ENT just never did much for me, so I never finished them.
 
I would want it even darker than that TBH. On DS9 they were presented as a conspiracy which thought it was acting in the best interests of the Federation, but they were never presented as a necessary evil per se. It wasn't the "hard men doing hard things" trope that became common post 9/11. I'd argue that the sideways references in Enterprise and STID were similar.

Discovery went way, way too far in terms of presenting them as just like a Starfleet version of black ops. I suppose it can be argued that even with what we saw of them in Season 2 we don't really know if they were actually necessary per se. But I think it's important to not present them as the men behind the curtain doing nasty shit so everyone else can playact being in a high-minded utopia. That goes against everything Trek stands for - the idea that our better natures won out, and that we can be ethical, safe, and live in comfort.

Basically, make it a show where they do outright villainous things. Have the protagonists try to rationalize their actions, but ultimately decide that it's wicked top to bottom, and try and take it down from the inside.
Yes, this! A thousand times this!

Off-Topic: I've mentioned a few times on the board before that I'm a Videographer & Editor and that I also make independent films on the side. This is a Teaser for my next project, which I've also written and will be directing, The Spirit's Dark Shadow. It's going to be a period piece that takes place in a Haunted Mansion in the 1920s with a Speakeasy underneath and a dark, deep secret.
That's cool! I look forward to seeing it!

Barring an unforseen early death on my part I'll have seen every Trek series from start to finish during its initial run except for TOS and TAS. I wasn't born until TAS was airing its final episodes.
I saw all episodes of TAS, TNG, and DS9 first run (though I saw TAS when I was really young and don't remember most of it). I stopped watching VOY with That Episode and I think I stopped watching ENT in season 2. I've seen all the new shows now since their first episodes and plan to continue as long as I'm around. At some point, I'll watch all of VOY and ENT.
 
That's cool! I look forward to seeing it!
Thanks! It's actually going to be my third film. We're still in pre-production and it'll take a while to shoot once we start production (we'll only be able to shoot on weekends since we have to work around our day jobs), then there's editing, but once it's available to the public, could be a few years, I'll give you a head's up.

Before anyone asks: I can provide private links to my first two films upon request over PM, but I'll reserve judgment on who I share them with. And I that's the last I'll talk about it here. Back to Picard!
 
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