Star Trek

About to start binging Star Trek, never seen it before. What am I in for? Is it a great show or just a meme show? Do the effects age well enough?

Some of the fighting / people getting shot looks pretty dumb. A good amount of the shots in space hold up really well though. If I remember they used a lot of plastic models and not CGI for most of that type of thing.

It also suffers from usually having a poor season 1-2 and then drastically getting better in quality. You can usually just establish the world / characters and skip around a bit. You don't need to strictly watch in order

It can be hit or miss. The original series doesn't always make a lot of scientific sense, but it probably wouldn't have been as interesting if it did. On one hand, the world building from the first series made the other more grounded series possible. On the other hand, the episodes are rarely connected, and sometimes the show is really just a Twilight Zone style show that serves as a familiar cast that a writer can throw into blatantly weird scenarios.

first 6 chapters are shit

only tos is good

TOS/9.0
TNG/9/0
DS9/9.5
VOY/7.5
ENT/7.5

Do you really believe that Voyager and Enterprise were 7.5/10 shows?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a good example of a 7.5/10 show. Excellent sometimes, good mostly, not great sometimes. Not perfect, but a good 7.5 show.

The Twilight Zone is a good example of a 7.5 show. Didn't hold up over time, quite a few good episodes, but also a good bit of garbage mixed in.

24 is a good example of a 7.5/10 show. Entertaining premise, great characters, a decent amount of bad episodes, but very satisfying.

Star Trek: Voyager or Enterprise? Who defends these? Who ranks them as "7.5/10"? They weren't good! They were mostly bad and the non-bad episodes only peak at average!

Hands down Star Trek (TOS or The Original Series) is one of the best TV shows ever made, not only for its original story telling, setting and character archetypes being unique, but it spawning more shows and movies that would carry on the Star Trek title.

Personally, TOS is not the best Star Trek show when compared to the other Treks, but for its time, its quite well done, it really has a sense on how to connect with the general audience in understanding the premise of the show in its respective episodes and knows how to satisfy the nerd herd by the intricate nerdy Sci-fi things like the Enterprise, phasers, aliens and etc.

After you finish TOS, you should watch The Next Generation (TNG), Deep Space 9 (DS9), Enterprise (ENT) and finally Voyager (VOY) in order. TNG will let have have a good, balanced feel of Star Trek after watching TOS, the first two seasons can be a bit crappy, but it gets better, DS9 keeps a lot of the same; good story telling and characters. Now, ENT takes a turn for the worst with most people, but it has some of the best production values and effects out of any of the Treks, the first two seasons are a bit rough around the averages with the stories, a lot of reused plot devices, with some good episodes in between. Now, season 3 and 4, it has some of the best Trek episodes throughout any Trek. But the time you get to Enterprise, you'll probably wanna see the the whole show. Then VOY is a disappointment. I think in my opinion it can be skipped, and if you do watch it, you'll probably get bored. I only finished it as I wanted to finish all the Star Trek shows in proper order of release.

That's my two cents, but, I went a lot farther than your original question, so I hope this helps in some way.

Hey, the first season had "The Corbomite Maneuver" which is one of the best TOS episodes of all time.

>scientific sense
Yeah specially early on it is more space fantasy / magic with lots of telepathy and psychokinesis and such. It was often more about certain concept and ideas than about hard sci-fi.

So I'm watching TOS for the first time right now and I was planning on also watching the movies. I of course kinda know the movies already since they came on free TV when I was a child but I certainly didn't appreciate them (at least the even numbered ones, the ones that CAN be appreciated) I plan on re-watching them as well. Now my question: Should I throw in the movies at certain points during ToS or should I just finish all of TOS and then watch The Motion picture?

Honestly season one of TOS had a lot of the best episodes, it's kinda impressive.

Where No Man Has Gone Before, What Are Little Girls Made of, Return of the Archons, Space Seed, A Taste of Armageddon and fucking The City on the Edge of Forever

You have to admit that season 3 had the best episodes though.

All very good! I think the "The Corbomite Manouver" stuck with me since it was kinda the first Episode that really outlines what Star Trek was about. Not to go out and conquer or to kill anything that stands in earths way. But to try and be Diplomatic, find new things out there in space and if possible make allies.

And despite my love for TOS this it what ticks TNG and Picard a tiny bit above in my opinion. Yeah, Kirk is Iconic and has great moments because he's a great character, Picard to me simply embodies Star Trek.

do whatever you wanna do bro, there's no real timeline. just watch space seed before wrath of khan maybe.

Stop.

You're obviously a faggot who didn't grow up with Star Trek and whose only frame of reference to the show is memes and the internet. Your first experience with Star Trek was probably the new Abrams movie. Do yourself, and us, a favor and just not watch the show.

Watching TOS always makes me a bit sad. Kirk is such a good captain to his crew (except to the ones he's leading to their deaths on away missions) but he really keeps that ship together. Knowing how they all hated Shatner makes it all rather depressing

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>guy wants to watch star trek
>"lol babby probably has never seen TOS"
>therefore don't watch
???? are you retarded? The very thing you are mocking him for he is trying to fix.

You completely misrepresented my post because you yourself are a fucking retarded as well.

OP made ridiculous assumptions about the original Star Trek. From his post I gathered that he wasn't going to like TOS. Anyone who knows Star Trek would read OP's retarded post and immediately insinuate that the show is just not for them. Who knows maybe that was OP's intention all along. Maybe he wasn't seriously considering watching Star Trek and only wanted to create a thread for the attention?

Just solved a captcha to post NIGGERS

>Asking if a show from the 60s holds up these days or if it's just liked because how stupid it looks today before wanting to watch it somehow enables you to know weather or not he would enjoy it
fuck right of you double nigger. It's a legit fucking question considering that the Batman TV series was also from the 60s and is barely fucking watchable and these days largely remembered for meme-worthy momeths such as the famous "Shark repellent bat spray".

How's OP supposed to know if Star Trek goes much in the same direction or not if he doesn't ask before watching it? Fucking hell you're retarded.

Anyone with even a double digit IQ would understand that a show this old would be dated by today's standards. Asking if the "effects age well enough" implies that the person lacks the ability to take a show for what it is and simply enjoy it. It also suggest that OP has not even seen TNG, which is also quite, relatively, dated by today's standards. OP obviously isn't big on Star Trek, and they're actually trying to have you convince them that the show is worth watching.

piece of dog shit that didn't age well

Who fucking knows. It's a complete meme show.

I watched Star Trek exactly once in my life. We're in a hotel. Maximum comfy. Tired from the drive and all we want to do is lounge around and maybe order a pizza. So we're flipping through the guide and nothing good is on, and I see Star Trek. Oh wow, Star Trek, everyone says it's so FUCKING GOOD so I say we might as well see what the hype is about.

It was the worst television experience of my life. The script was so FUCKING BAD. Patrick Stewart (meme actor btw) has to get a goddamn heart surgery or something, so he brings this jackoff kid with and they talk about death or something. Meanwhile the dudes on the ship find and get outsmarted by LITERAL RETARDS! Actual quote: "You are smart. We... are not smart." I am not even making this up, I wish I was, these writers expect us to believe that fat fucking downs syndrome aliens have somehow achieved FTL TRAVEL but they can't communicate better than toddlers. And their ship is broken (absolute SHOCKER) so genius on the SS Memerprise decides to beam niggerman over there to fix it.

Meanwhile Baldman is getting his heart surgery by the only doctor in the universe qualified to perform the operation. But wow, complications! And the doctor LITERALLY throws up his hands and declares "I'M OUT OF MY ELEMENT" but luckily there was another doctor who was actually fucking competent. And then the retard aliens decide they're not going to beam back niggerman because he's too smart, so the climax is about beardman outsmarting the mongoloid aliens somehow. What a joke.

Don't even waste your time. All you will get from it is the profound realization that the people who turned Star Trek into a cultural sensation were actually fucking retarded. I'm serious.

How many of these ratings do you tos people agree with? I just watched tos for the 1st time and found about half of them wrong

it's all that jackoff kid's fault

>The Cage
>Major Important
>Quality Good
Eeeeeh.. In terms of Importance more... Not at all? Lots of the stuff from Cage has been retconned (such as spock having emotions) and even Kirk isn't in it. As for quality, it probably has some of the worst sets and costumes, (seriously their shirts and badges look like someones mom had to sew them all on the day before shooting) and the whole episode is way longer than it needs to be.
I'd say it's none in importance and okay/bad in quality. Only worth watching for the novelty of it being the original rejected plot
>rest of the list out of order for no fucking reason
>also calls itself viewing guide
>is full of spoilers
top kek stopped reading.

The only thing I don't really like about it are the episodes with hippies and dated 60's stuff like that. Other than that it's aged really well.

Just watch it in release order. All the movies chronologically take place after the events of the TV show.

Or maybe terrible effects can completely break the immersion, that's a thing

I've been going over TOS recently and ...
well, "importance" is a little overdone. Unlike the later shows, almost no single episode refers to any other episode in TOS, with the exception of The Menagerie. There's some importance in that other series might refer to the episode, or that some bit of canon about Vulcans gets its wobbly establishment here, but by and large there is no order to the episodes.

Still gives me goosebumps