EDIT: I just want to make clear this is sarcasm.
The one with the ship called Enterprise
I’m feeling personally attacked here! I come down on the Boimler side here I think, and I’d hate to argue with Beckett but she’s wrong.
All Star Treks are awesome in their own way and there all my Favourite. I can’t and I won’t be made to pick a series.
Those Old Scientists era is where it all starts and nobody tackles those great social issues like they did.
The Animated Series is so forking batshirt crazy and fun. And they brought us my bois, the Kizinti!
The original cast movies brought Trek back from the repeats. Yes even numbers are better but five got me to ask “Why does god need a starship”
The Next Generation really kicked it in to high gear and expanded the universe.
DS9 - I wouldn’t recommend any long story format higher.
Voyager - if I didn’t love Voyager Janeway would kick my ass.
The TNG movies had some kick ass action and amazing space battles.
Enterprise really explored the beginnings and had a lot of fun filling in the niches and contradictions.
I could keep going on and on but it’s late and I’ll leave you with how I alway feel about Trek series. My favourite one is one that I’m watching right now
I didn’t know the Kzinti were in Star Trek, that’s a cool crossover
Next generation is so good I don’t even. It’s like my first time watching Star Trek and I just wanted to see Data
I couldn’t watch it when I was younger to not get bullied but it turns out it is fun. The nerds were right
TNG is peak Star Trek. That’s just an objective fact.
TNG is the best at being Star Trek
DS9 is the best show in Star Trek
Except for season one and part of season two, for both of them.
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I couldn’t watch it when I was younger to not get bullied
Looks to me that you were successfully bullied into submission. Good thing you got over it.
It’s more like I bullied the Star Trek people, of course I was bullied too, no one came unscathed from that hell hole.
However picking on shy autists and getting into fights with the muscle bullies was like a theme of my young years. I wasn’t on the top of the food chain unfortunately but in the middle
I remember a certain Linux guy, quite intelligent for his age of 10 year old but he was walking strange gait and giving away discs with Ubuntu.
Thankfully it doesn’t matter anymore
You have to specify which era, at least:
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Your parents’ Star Trek. Cheaply made and over the top acting. Aliens are mostly excuses to show half-naked women or use props from other shows to save money. But it has very important life lessons that everyone should learn.
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Your Star Trek. Lots of boring talking, but that’s the best part! Certain episodes have become increasingly problematic as the years go by and even later episodes suffer from limited budgets. But the good ones stand out as the highest points of the franchise and they will likely never be topped.
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The kids’ Star Trek. Over-produced, shaky cameras, lens flares, and everyone is a sex-starved alcoholic for some reason. In spite of the frequently cheap filmography, the show has never looked better, never been more accessible, and everyone is proudly represented.
Sorry to say but TNG and Voyager were the Star Trek shows that my mom watched.
I started Star Trek from 0 around 2 years ago.
I had to stop at number 2 of your list. (Maybe a bit later since I still watched Enterprise…) but Discovery killed the whole thing for me. I was like… how bad it can be? It’s still Star Trek… well no.
Checked out a few episodes of Picard…, I dunno. That’s also not necessarily the Star Trek for me. :/
(On the other hand, Seth MacFarlane’s Orville was amazing)
I’m totally on board with that analysis because Discovery was just wrong (IMO). Didn’t give Enterprise a chance because Discovery used up all my goodwill. Lower Decks I’m leaving open, but so far animation isn’t doing it for me Trek-wise.
I’d recommend sticking with Picard, I think by the 3rd season I was fully convinced. I understand the first season is a little rickety while they find a tone.
But for me, there’s one Star Trek that needs no qualification, no bloody A, B, C, D, or anything else: yeah baby I’m talking about TOS. Technicolor fistfights, ham and corn in abundance, some actual drama; A Good Time Was Had By All. It can’t be replicated, only riffed on. That we’re 50 years in and still going is testament to the intrinsic success of the original making “it” work.
58 years in… The 60th anniversary of the first trek is two years away
My GF didn’t watch much Trek until she met me, and since then she’s watched everything from TNG onwards. Even for a relatively new fan she agrees that Discovery just didn’t feel like Star Trek even though she liked the show.
But her favorite Star Trek show is definitely The Orville.
Highly recommend lower decks (try getting through the first few eps though, it does take a little to find its legs). I am also not a fan of Discovery and Picard. Strange New Worlds is okay, a few really strong eps (i do adore the design work though, I’m very happy with the original series era being modernized like this)
I watched the first season of Lower Decks, and… it didn’t really clicked. It’s just waaaay too fast paced (and goofy) for Star Trek to me - tho the cartoon itself is good.
With Picard, I checked 2 or 3 eps of it, but honestly I’m not sure I really wanna continue. (Tho I don’t want to punish my gf by skipping them since Star Trek is our daily thing, so I might watch it) and Strange New Worlds is something that awaits. I’ve heard good things about that one so not all hopes lost for me 😅
It’s just waaaay too fast paced
This is addressed in an episode. I won’t say which episode or series because it’s a spoiler but it is addressed.
Snw is personally amazing, it’s an attempt to rebirth trek from scratch. It’s not ds9 or the best of tng, but pike really nails it so you don’t care.
Picard season 3 is solid, especially the first half, otherwise don’t bother with s1 and s2.
The thing that really puts a Star Trek show over the top is the chemistry between the crew, and SNW has that in spades. Pike is now my favorite captain.
Pike is the ultimate Starfleet captain, which is crazy.
TNG’s chemistry was all over the place for the first 3 seasons, after TBOTW they locked it down perfectly, Enterprise’s too actually. DS9 nailed the chemistry best till SNW imho, LD too I guess.
I am not even calling discovery startrek, it is simply not. Picard is meh.
But you need to watch strange new worlds and lower decks, if you haven’t - these are amazing.
(Maybe a bit later since I still watched Enrerprise…)
No, Enterprise firmly and definitely fits into category 2. It had a weird theme song and some people didn’t like how it shoehorned an extra ship named Enterprise into the list, but other than that it was Berman-era Trek, through and through.
yeah, you may right. I was hesitant for a second when I put Enterprise too into categ. 3. But It’s still sorta in-between…
and that theme song wasn’t that bad afterall :P. at least the OG one.
Discovery improved slightly in the later seasons…
slightly
For most people in this community, TNG is your parents’ star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents’ Star Trek, at the earliest.
Your Star Trek is MAYBE voyager, but Enterprise has been around over 20 years now, and people with jobs and taxes to pay watched that as young people.
For most people in this community, TNG is your parents’ star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents’ Star Trek, at the earliest.
Amazing how you do not think too much about your own age, until you see it staring back at you in black and white!
By this community’s standards at least I can say I did Live long. The Prosper part, not so much.
I remember watching TNG with my mom as a kid. She recorded it on VHS and we’d fast forward through commercials.
I’m the Enterprise crowd. I was 10 years old.
EDIT: I grew up on TNG. Saw First Contact in theaters at age of five.
I took that as 1 being TOS/TAS/OG Movies, 2 being TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT/TNG Movies, 3 being everything from the 09 movie onwards
To me I didn’t watch ST growing up. I started when I was at least a teenager, maybe early 20s, around 2012 or so probably. I started with TNG though, and my favorite is DS9, which started the year I was born. I consider it my ST, even though Enterprise is probably what should be considered my contemporary. For sure, TNG would be my parent’s though, if they watched it.
For most people
You might want to realize that you are not “most people”
I unironically also pick the one with sex too because I associate Trek heavily with sex. It’s always been horny.
Absolutely. nuTrek is supposed to be the sex starved one? Commander Riker would have something to say about that, but he’s busy on holodeck four.
I pick the one with representation.
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What if I say “All Star Trek”?
They’re Delta Quadrant spies!
Enterprise lurking around the corner
ALL Star Trek.
It’s been a long time…
The big 3, naturally.
Babylon 5, Farscape, and Battlestar Galactica.
May the force be with you to infinity and beyond.
Oh Farscape
I watched that when I was very very sick (I lost like 30lbs), and to this day I have no idea how much was just fever dreams vs actually a real tv show.
No way. It’s SG-1, Galaxy Quest, and the 9th Doctor.
…robotech, seaquest, and firefly…
Fucking Seaquest! Hell yeah!
Macross superior, Robotech inferior
/vocoder
Transformer noises
The theme song alone sells Macross.
…but also Robotech.
…nobody would follow an uncharismatic bore like you!..
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
Babylon 5: paved the way for real serialized arcs like lost and everything else we have now. Groundbreaking. Gave us Mollari.
Farscape: Watching a human kick ass and go mad in space. Never get off the boat, man, never get off the boat!!!
Come on! You forgot V:
Lexxx my beloved. Space: Above and Beyond my heart.
If someone doesn’t specify, they mean TOS, clearly
I hope the sarcasm was understood. I should clarify this.
Star Trek: The Land Before Time
Littlefoot is played by a Gorn child.
Cera is a Klingon.
I’m imagining a kid B’Elanna.
Somehow played by Jeffrey Coombs
If you don’t specify it’s Enterprise of course! Who could resist that catchy theme song?
Having met Anthony Montgomery and see him host karaoke, I feel it would be wrong to talk down on that. I never would but there are those who will.
I unironically love the theme song sequence in that show, but I know it’s a point of contention so I figured I’d poke the hornet’s nest a bit.
Can’t they all be my favourite? I enjoy all star trek
All of it? Even that one?
Hot take: THAT one is actually my favorite.
Especially that one!
That one was the best!
The Christmas Special!
Does it have Betty White instead of Bea Arthur working at a bar?
Betty White played the part of Beatrice Arthur.
I’d rather watch Discovery than The Acolyte
All of them!