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The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To add to the serious answer, I think Strange New Worlds could actually be a good starting point as well

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really wish I could get into TOS, it’s charming. George Takei and Nichelle Nichols were amazing in it. But yeah I’m gonna start with TNG when I get to it. Old tv was so episodic it was rough

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TNG is a great place to start too! It’s more matured and gets into the philosophy of trek more thoroughly. Although, fair warning: it’s pretty episodic as well. Like TOS, there will be a handful of characters that show up every so often or events that change things, but most episodes’ stories wrap up within the 50min runtime.

    In both cases, it was largely so that people could watch stuff out of order back then and not feel lost.

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You people dislike episodic shows?

      It’s by far the thing I miss the most about the older shows. Way more episodes, that aren’t always pushing an overarching narrative and story arc. Just loosely connected, sometimes referencing each other later on, the occasional two parter.

      I hate how streamlined modern shows are now. 10 episodes if you’re lucky, and they are all crammed to the brim with narrative and plot details. Everything tidied up nicely in the end, everything you see serves a purpose.

      No time to just spend an episode watching a minor character do something unrelated to the overall plot, like barclay and his shenanigans.

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      • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, I love them. It makes it easier to throw on a random episode without having to worry about remembering everything that has happened.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone should start a Star Trek random episode generator.

  Load up every Star Trek TV episode ever made and just play it like a lottery machine and watch whatever it suggests.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would watch the hell out of this for Star Trek or Futurama. The only way I can think to make it work would be building my own media server, and I just haven’t taken the leap yet.

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• atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the safe and boring answer.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For us it is, but it’s where I would want to start if I were new to the series!

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    • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      After 13 years I finally got my partner to start watching TNG. It may take us another 13 years to finish, but it's a start.

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      • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hooked another one!

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TOS is hard to watch from the beginning. Its soooo slow, and they are all doing that damn old timey stage actor accent

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