As someone who has never watched anything star trek before, is it alright to watch this?
Yes.It's comfy as fuck. You should watch TOS first because it's only 3 seasons, is a good series and gives a lot of context but you can start at TNG.
Best place to start IMHO
Tos is amusing but dated visually
Ds9 would be good to marathon right after
THe rest is trash
>>67782528
Don't even bother with Season 1, except maybe the two-part first episode. Season 2 is weaker than what follows, but light-years ahead of the first season.
>>67782722
>TOS is dated visually
That isn't fair, TOS had very good sets and made some pretty big leaps with SFX and cinematography for its time. It is old, but it's still clearly a labor of love.
>>67782772
bull shit. Watch season 1 after you watch the original series.
>>67783036
The first 3 seasons had Roddenberry magic.
alright I'll go binge both TOS and TNG then
Thanks folks
>>67783139
DS9 overlaps with TNG for two seasons, just fyi. You don't need to watch them like that but I think DS9 is worth it.
>>67782528
Never been much of a Star Trek fan at all but I always enjoyed this one enough as a kid, still do when it's on late at night.
>>67783139
dont binge. Just let the TOS series fall around you. Like someone is burying you in a shallow grave.
>>67783385
Except that they don't have graves in the future. Corpses get put into torpedoes and set adrift in space.
Thanks Star Trek.
>>67782528
>>67782528
Long live space socialism!
>>67782528
Read this:
https://medium.com/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-the-next-generation-in-40-hours-c4a6762cbd3#.q68ugodca
>>67782959
What I tell people is that if they like the original Twilight Zone, they'll probably like the best episodes of TOS. Some of it is Gilligan's Island tier, but most of TOS was indeed brilliant, and ahead of its time.
>>67785439
>Gilligan's Island
But we're talking about TOS, not Voyager.
>>67785439
The final episode of TOS, "Turnabout Intruder," implied that the "hysterical woman" stereotype could actually be true. It left a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm glad the series evolved but who okayed that episode? Gene Roddenberry? Was he sexist?
>>67785862
Roddenberry was uninvolved for season 3. That disaster was approved by Fred Freiberger.
>>67785926
Who the heck is Fred Freiberger and how was he allowed to take over Gene Roddenberry's show?
>>67786044
Wikipedia? Memory Alpha? Google?
Roddenberry didn't like how the network was treating Star Trek, so he quit in season two. Fred Freiberger was the person chosen by the network to take over for season three.
>>67784146
This is not true. The end of Wrath of Khan is equivalent to a burial at sea.
>>67786166
Who are Wikipedia Memory Alpha and Google?
Thank you for the information about Mr. Freiberger.
>>67786666
>implying that Fred was Satan
Rollicker get out.
The devil doesn't exist in Roddenberry's secular humanist propaganda.
