What Star Trek episodes or films have you been watching lately?

[PsychoPere]

Within the last couple of months, I've decided to give the entire franchise a watch since I had barely seen any of DS9 yet was reading (and quite enjoying) the Relaunch novels. I had stopped watching ENT back after season 2 ended, so I started this chronological experiment at ENT season 3, then jumped into TOS Remastered once I finished ENT season 4.

Having always been a TOS fan primarily, I was concerned that the HD remasterings and effects updates would make the series lose some of its charm, but I'm quite glad that I chose to watch those versions because that concern was unfounded. Following TOS, I watched the first few episodes of TAS but quickly jumped forward to TNG season 1 instead because I really want to get to DS9. I had originally started this whole franchise watch with the intention of doing so chronologically, but now I'm watching occasional TAS episodes in between TNG ones. I'm currently in TNG season 2, with "Pen Pals" the next episode to watch. I had forgotten how bad so much of season 1 was, and just how dated it looks now. Looking forward into getting to the later seasons since there were so many great episodes there.

I never cared much for VOY, but I do plan on putting that into this whole thing when it comes "time." The movies -- excluding TOS, because I've seen all of those so many times and the same DS9 burning desire -- will be incorporated as well, of course, since I'm trying to follow as best I can through the timeline. I imagine I'll wrap the whole process up with the 2009 movie.

Now that I've typed all of this out, I think I'm going to skip the next Nip/Tuck episode I was originally going to watch and just proceed onto TNG's "Pen Pals" instead...

 

[DevilEyes]

Watching "Birthright pt 2" right now on SciFi...

Ugh, Worf has never been more of an annoying ass that in this episode. (No, not even in "Let He Who is Without Sin...") I just want to smack him.

 

[Sector 7]

Just watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder, because I really enjoyed it. I cannot remember the last time I took it out of its case and watched that movie. I noticed quite a few things in HD that I had never noticed in previous viewings: Scotty's fly around in the shuttle was beautiful (in one shot the graphics on E are green!); I had forgotten how many uniform changes, and variety, there were; the V'Ger fly through does not seem as long as it used to be.

 

[Lor'Vela]

DS9: Move Along Home.

Well, I like it.

 

[SPCTRE]

Watching "Birthright pt 2" right now on SciFi...

Ugh, Worf has never been more of an annoying ass that in this episode. (No, not even in "Let He Who is Without Sin...") I just want to smack him.

I feel the opposite. Actually, I think it's one of the better Worf-centric episodes (although I enjoyed the "B" plot in this episode a lot more - oh, and the semi-superfluous DS9 crossover ).

 

[DevilEyes]

Watching "Birthright pt 2" right now on SciFi...

Ugh, Worf has never been more of an annoying ass that in this episode. (No, not even in "Let He Who is Without Sin...") I just want to smack him.

I feel the opposite. Actually, I think it's one of the better Worf-centric episodes (although I enjoyed the "B" plot in this episode a lot more - oh, and the semi-superfluous DS9 crossover ).

I didn't say it wasn't... but Worf is still an insufferable ass. Good Worf episodes tend to show that Worf's ideas about what Klingons are/should be (probably gotten from books, legends, operas and such) clash with what Klingons really are. Which is exactly what happens in this case, but here he just keeps on imposing his views and telling everyone what makes a true Klingon (and how the hell would he know? He hasn't been surrounded with the actual present day Klingon culture while growing up any more than they did, has barely spent any time on Qu'onos, and every Klingon in that colony has had a lot more experience growing up and living with other Klingons than he did).

 

[Lunarflower]

I've been rewatching DS9. The last one I watched was Resurrection.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Recently watched "The Forge" and "Awakening", and would have continued had I not realized the next disc was not where it is supposed to be. :-/

So I watched "Caretaker" from the first season of VOY -- half of it, anyway. I'll finish it tonight.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Within the last couple of months, I've decided to give the entire franchise a watch since I had barely seen any of DS9 yet was reading (and quite enjoying) the Relaunch novels. I had stopped watching ENT back after season 2 ended, so I started this chronological experiment at ENT season 3, then jumped into TOS Remastered once I finished ENT season 4.

Having always been a TOS fan primarily, I was concerned that the HD remasterings and effects updates would make the series lose some of its charm, but I'm quite glad that I chose to watch those versions because that concern was unfounded. Following TOS, I watched the first few episodes of TAS but quickly jumped forward to TNG season 1 instead because I really want to get to DS9. I had originally started this whole franchise watch with the intention of doing so chronologically, but now I'm watching occasional TAS episodes in between TNG ones. I'm currently in TNG season 2, with "Pen Pals" the next episode to watch. I had forgotten how bad so much of season 1 was, and just how dated it looks now. Looking forward into getting to the later seasons since there were so many great episodes there.

I never cared much for VOY, but I do plan on putting that into this whole thing when it comes "time." The movies -- excluding TOS, because I've seen all of those so many times and the same DS9 burning desire -- will be incorporated as well, of course, since I'm trying to follow as best I can through the timeline. I imagine I'll wrap the whole process up with the 2009 movie.

Now that I've typed all of this out, I think I'm going to skip the next Nip/Tuck episode I was originally going to watch and just proceed onto TNG's "Pen Pals" instead...

I'm doing this as well, although not quite as fully and a bit differently, because I had an urge to get to DS9 quickly. I've seen all of DS9 and it was on the air when I was a child, and back then, by the fifth season... you couldn't pull me away when that show was on.

I started with the TOS movies, then went to TNG. (In hindsight, perhaps I should have gone with release dates over the timeline at this point; The Undiscovered Country looks about a hundred times better than TNG Season 1.) Once I reached the appropriate point in TNG, I began DS9, and now I'm watching the two series simultaneously. My girlfriend has enjoyed TNG, having initially shown little desire to sit down and watch it with me but changing her mind once the stupendously terrible first season was over. She now watches DS9 with me and, being a nuBSG fan, really enjoys the characterization. I've told her she can thank DS9 (along with Babylon 5, I would say) for the execution styles Ron D. Moore decided upon with nuBSG.

I've been writing reviews of every DS9 episode and if this keeps up, I think I'll make a website, alter a few posts to suit a broader canvas and post 'em there. Perhaps it will be the inspiration I need to get back to writing fiction, seeing the accomplishment once I'm done with all this. As for Voyager, I'm sort of in the same boat as you are, although I enjoyed it well enough as a kid. I still remember my heart sinking when Deep Space Nine ended, though; even then, I knew something profound was gone. I'm still in the air as to whether or not I'm going to bother rewatching Voyager once I hit Season 3 of DS9.

 

[Nightdiamond]

I just watched Voyager where Kes was possessed by the mind of an ex alien leader. She stages a coup on homeworld, tries to seduce everyone in sight and acted totally psychotic.

Loved every minute of it.

I always liked this episode- Kes was downright sexy and intriguing in it.

It had some minor scenes with bisexuality which was treated as a non issue, yet was visually displayed without any hesitancy.

As far tv viewing, I can't find any DS9 episodes-they having been on in a while.

 

[Jack Bauer]

TNG's The Most Toys. Kivas Fajo was a ruthless son of a bitch. I saw it when it originally aired and I'm still not sure if Data intended to shoot and kill Fajo or if the Varon T Disruptor went off by itself.

 

[SPCTRE]

I didn't say it wasn't... but Worf is still an insufferable ass. Good Worf episodes tend to be show that Worf's ideas about what Klingons are/should be (probably gotten from books, legends, operas and such) clash with what Klingons really are. Which is exactly what happens in this case, but here he just keeps on imposing his views and telling everyone what makes a true Klingon (and how the hell would he know? He hasn't been surrounded with the actual present day Klingon culture while growing up any more than they did, has barely spent any time on Qu'onos, and every Klingon in that colony has had a lot more experience growing up and living with other Klingons than he did).

Ah okay, I hear ya. Excellent point, I hadn't thought about it that way.

 

[DevilEyes]

Descent pt 2 on SciFi channel...

Oh look! It's Captain Aceveda as the transporter chief!

 

[USS Lancelot]

On my fourth run-through of DS9. Currently, about a third through Season 4.

 

[Sector 7]

TNG's The Most Toys. Kivas Fajo was a ruthless son of a bitch. I saw it when it originally aired and I'm still not sure if Data intended to shoot and kill Fajo or if the Varon T Disruptor went off by itself.

Oh, Data fired that weapon! I never had any doubt in my mind that he fully intended to kill Fajo. Data looked almost disappointed to find that he had been transported to the Enterprise. His excuse that the Varon T Disruptor went off by itself should have been followed by, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it!"

The episode was on television just the other night. I loved seeing it again.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Yeah, great episode. Saul Rubinek played Fajo perfectly. I wanted to shoot him!

 

[Eddie Roth]

Last night, I watched "Allegiance". I'm currently all about TNG again - after my long stretch of post-STXI TOS watching. Isn't this a really weird episode? What was the point?

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I can't say much for its point, but I like the episode a fair bit. Picard's interactions with the other prisoners in the aliens' test and his subsequent deductions are well-written, and the replicated... Picard... thing and its shenanigans are quite amusing, if a tad disturbing.

The point of the episode is a little lost on me, too, though. Leadership capabilities? How not to get along with people?

 

[Alienesse]

I'm watching TNG Season 3 episodes. Last night I watched "Sins of the Father". It's a strong story for both Worf and Picard. I especially enjoyed seeing Picard kicking some Klingon behind.

 

[DevilEyes]

TNG Dark Page. I didn't remember this one well from the first time I watched it, and I think I might have even missed a part of the episode before, so it was almost like watching a new ep, apart from knowing what it is all about. Good episode - the best one Lwaxana was ever in, for sure (though DS9 The Forsaken had some nice moments with Odo at the end). The communication issues with the telepathic race that thinks in images and had to be taught language by Lwaxana were quite interesting. And I didn't know the little girl was played by a very young Kirsten Dunst - this must have been a year or two before Interview with the Vampire?