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[Star Trek] Shows we view with an Opinion
RMS Oceanic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyYhbC0MXlYSo there's a show called Star Trek that has so many episodes they had to form a Roman Empire style Tetrarchy and have four series represent it all. What fifth series?
Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS)
Theme Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmMStarring a man who will try anyone once, a conflicted half alien in a snark war with a timehole, a de-licensed Doctor for writing too many prescriptions, a bio-ethanol miracle engine and a mysterious pilot called Omai. The original series, involving flying around space and discovering copies of Earth while fighting the Mongols.
Recommended episodes: City on the Edge of Forever, Balance of Terror, The Doomsday Machine, Mirror Mirror
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG)
Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPOAeDBH1_UStarring a Child Hating Uriah Gambit, a man who will try anyone once, SemanticParserException, a Werewolf, the best argument for adhering to military dress codes, a Nice Guy, Maury Pauvich Guest Star and son, and a really interesting alien threat. Set a hundred years after the original and also involved flying around space, although with less Earth copies and more arrogance at their supposed enlightenment.
Recommended episodes: The Inner Light, The Measure of a Man, Tapestry, Darmok
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)
Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9KWB0M4UUStarring The Sisko, the embodiment of physical pain and trauma, a Werewolf during the new moon, Red Lantern, Multiple Choice Personality, the Patriot Act, a victim of Profit and Lace, Rejecting your reality and substituting my own, and the USS Ben Sisko's Motherfuckin' Pimp Hand. Set at the same time as TNG, involves staying put in space, exploring the political development of a region after the discovery of a wormhole across the galaxy, that brings both opportunity and danger.
Recommended Episodes: Duet, The Visitor
Star Trek: Voyager (VOY)
Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OnpFNybxcStarring Ming the Merciless, an Ent, an Enforcer, The Best at everything, the embodiment of sexual trauma and shame, Doctor Ego, Tsundere Mechanic, Surprisingly engaging emotionally stunted victim of abuse, an alien that has its interest and threat withered away, Reset Button, and Shithead. Back to space flight, although a bit more than you'd expect when you're on the opposite side of the galaxy without a nice wormhole to avail of.
Recommended Episodes: The Thaw, Scorpion, Year of Hell, Timeless, not Threshold
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...Oh, fine.
Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT)
Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4kStarring a Racist Crazy Homeless person, Erik from Dungeons and Dragons, Forged a college degree, the Space Sphere, More Dakka, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Doctor Malthus. Set a hundred years before TOS and ostensibly about flying around in regular amounts again, but decides to get involved with time travel shenanigans for three quarters of it. Has unquestionably the worst finale, because it's not its own finale.
Recommended Episodes: In a Mirror Darkly
Oh also there are some movies. Including one coming out in a year or so. They each have strengths and weaknesses, but I advise you to avoid 5 and 10.
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It would be far more accurate that way.
Edit: Turns out I'm wrong and the two songs just share a lot in common.
Nah, that's not what he was going for with his recommendations.
And if you're going to watch all of DS9 you should definitely watch at least the last few seaons of TNG first (5-7) because one plays into the other. And if you're going to watch the last few seasons of TNG then you might as well watch all of it because seasons 3-4 have some of the best episodes of the series, and 1-2 do have some strong episodes.
You can skip TOS. It is dated, there is no denying it, and you don't need to have watched it at all to appreciate TNG and beyond.
If you make it through TNG and DS9 and don't hate the series... I guess you could watch Voyager.
Did any intro to any star trek show or movie say "Space: A world of time"? Because I so clearly remember it and it's poetic enough for me not to have come up with it myself, but I can find no records of it anywhere.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Not in Star Trek, it must have come from another show or movie.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Man it was nice to see Winn take it on the jaw for once.
She's probably a really nice person in real life, if you ignore the character and just look at her, she has a kind face.
Whoa, I did not realize that was the same actress.
She is a legitimately great actor.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
She's originally from Alabama.
So now we know why she nails "evil and smarmy in a sweet sounding way".
Just substitute "Well, bless your heart" for every "walk with the prophets" and you have a typical church-going southern woman.
OMG I will never be able to unsee this.
The Seven and Doctor show, guest starring Tuvok.
Every time a screen is on a child I want to punch Winn.
For real, she's a great antagonist in the Umbridge model.
Ok, so this is something I've really been wondering. I want my wife to watch DS9, I think she would really like it. However, she has some weird stigma about Star Trek and automatically assumes she wouldn't like it. I know this isn't true though.
So if I were to pick out a few episodes of TNG instead of forcing her to watch 3 seasons, what would really be good introductions to the Cardassians and Bajor?
I could just skip all that entirely, but she'd miss out on so much back story.
The Wounded and Chain of Command for the Cardassians, Ensign Ro for Bajorans.
There are literally no Cardassian or Bajoran characters from TNG that appear in DS9. The only one who comes close is Chief O'Brian.
All you need to know is that they're "Space Nazis" (that's a quote from Marc Alaimo) who used to be at war with the Federation. They used to rule Bajor in a brutal occupation and are hoping to take it back, while the Federation wants Bajor to join the Federation. Bajor's government is unstable and divided.
I think all of this is covered in the first episode by Dukat, Kira and Sisco's dialogue.
No, none of the intros ever said that in Star Trek. It might be from something else.
It's Space, the final frontier.
DS9 struggled, but with TOS there's no struggle. Almost every woman is either a space secretary or something for Kirk to have no consequences sex with and then never talk to again.
It's always necessary to remember when watching TOS that it was from the 60's, which means you just need to roll with a certain level of weird and uncomfortable stuff.
When watching TAS, it's necessary to remember that everybody involved was just on so many drugs. Like, this is the cartoon equivalent of hitting rock bottom and huffing random bottles you find under the sink. There does manage to be a few decent episodes, though, like the one about Spock's brother (the brother who wasn't silently written forever out of existence by edict of Gene Roddenberry).
Ferengi have a sexist culture too, but the writers presented Ferengi culture as something to be explored and questioned.
Klingon culture is always presented as something that must be respected and revered, which is batty because most of Klingon culture is regressive and awful.
i think that DS9 was better at that than TNG was.
When Worf wanted to kill his brother Sisko went to fucking town on him. When Worf asked Riker to kill him Picard got all "gee you dont want to offend their culture"
Sisko drew clear lines on what Klingon Cosplay he was willing to let Worf take part in and what he wasn't.
I was like uh, you know trill have a culture too and Worf hasn't ever once stopped and considered that maybe his marriage was a two-way street.
It was so god damned sexist. "You, wife, you agreed to subjugate everything about yourself to the superior male husband how dare you open your mouth and speak!"
Not true, sometimes they are there to swap bodies with Kirk and allow Shatner to ascend to his final form
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I felt like they barely explored trill culture at all, leaving them as just spotted humans who have this symbiont thing going on.
But that's par for the course, as Trek has always been bad at making alien-aliens instead making species who each embody a single broad stroke of humanity (to the exclusion of almost everything else).
That's why I was particularly sick of Klingons, because they already did Klingons a lot in TNG and they don't have anything going on aside from testosterone poisoning. I'm sure if they did Ferengi again in a future series I'd be sick of them too, since they are just "greed".
Well, the end of DS9 started showing some changes in Ferengi government and junk, so I think a future thing on Ferengi could actually be pretty interesting.
When was that?
TOS is worth watching if you keep in mind the extra special horrible mess that was racism, sexism, and the cold war at the time. Just remember that the stuff that happened on TOS was pretty progressive. You'll cry a little inside.
It also has some pretty awesome episodes. The Doomsday Machine is good fun, Balance of Terror is a great WWII submarine story.