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Very Important Question: Are you planning to interleave at all, or simply watch TNG->DS9->VOY->ENT? If you do interleave, will you interleave by season, episode, or some constructed logical/story/arc method?

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I'm planning to interweave by episode, so I'll be watching the episodes in the order they aired, regardless of series. Functionally, though, I'll probably just be alternating disks.

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By-disc might well cause serious headaches in late DS9, where the arcs are very tight.

Also, I'll bet on "somewhere in VOY, or in the first season of ENT at the latest" for dead-sick of Star Trek.

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I actually like Enterprise. SHUT UP.

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ecmyers.livejournal.com

What about Classic Trek?

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Not really a fan of classic Trek, have to say. I've seen a dozen episodes or so, and while some of them are stand outs, it's much more old school sci fi than I like, and way campier. I put up with bad special effects on sci fi shows all the time, but TOS is a little far over the line for me.

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elmyraemilie.livejournal.com

My fledgling rewatching of nine seasons of CSI Las Vegas bows before your towering ambition.

It's pretty interesting stuff, though. So far, it's been more than rewatching a series--it's been a kind of time capsule. When did pagers go the way of the dodo? What possessed women to wear their hair that way? How little men's fashion has changed! Stuff like that gives rewatching a series more flavor than might be expected.

For you, it will be the advances in video tech--the coming of green-screen will be a big one, I bet. *g*

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I recently watched all of CSI on Netflix. (But then, I hadn't seen it before.) This is what I do. Watch whole series. When I started Netflix, I watched all ten seasons of Stargate at a go, plus Atlantis. Just finished watching all of NCIS. Also rewatched X-Files through season 7 last year (those last two seasons are heresy to me). And for the Star Treks, I've seen most of TNG and two and a half seasons of ENT, but very little of the other two, so it should be interesting.

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Screw Star Trek, what I want to know is what the upper limit of the Netflix Queue is!

Also, why not start with TOS? And will you watch those movies, too, or are you starting at Generations? I am curious because there has been a spate of Star Trek watching all around me lately, and I've been tempted to start in on DSN because I never saw any of it aside from the Tribble episode. (The rest I've seen enough of--one episode in Enterprise's case--to know that I don't really need to watch any more.)

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I'm astonished

hslayer hasn't sensed this comment across LJ and come here to tell you to watch it.

Watch it. It's a completely different experience from any other Trek, and I'd say better.

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I keep hearing that. We were going to bug him for his DVDs, but I forgot. I also forgot to give him money I owe him. Meh.

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When I say "it", I meant ds9, by the way.

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I know, that's what I meant.

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oblvndrgn.livejournal.com

I think TOS is indeed a different experience than the others, but I don't know if I'd say better. It's campy. Although in that case Ivy would probably enjoy it.

I say second season of Voyager for when you get sick of trek. The first season would be 'Okay, maybe this gets better' and the second season will hit 'It's not. Screw this.'

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See above for why I'm not a big fan of TOS. It is way too campy for me. I also feel very clearly that's it's an artefact of the sixties--almost all of my television watching is nineties or later. There are just differences in the style of storytelling from earlier eras that I find off-putting.

I think getting sick of Trek will happen less because of a bad season of a show and more because they do tend to recycle story ideas between the series. It's like that on Stargate. After a while, you're like I'VE SEEN THIS EPISODE. YOU'VE DONE IT TWICE ALREADY.

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I get tired of Trek after about one episode. My memories of watching Next Gen and Voyager on TV was that the plots only differed once a season, practically. Unless the characters are really fun or funny, meh to that. Not worth my time.

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500. See above for why I'm not starting with TOS or Star Trek movies I-VI. The old series is too camp for me.

Also, I LIKE ENTERPRISE. It grows on you.

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I'd sooner watch TOS than Next Gen, which

darkling1 and

feiran are watching in the room with me as I type this. I'm actually listening to music on headphones to avoid listening to it. Because this show tries to be so serious, it's even more groan-worthy to me than TOS.

Plus, I really just don't like the Next Gen crowd especially much. Picard is decent because, hello, Patrick Stewart, but Riker is a tool, and Troi's a space case, and Brent Spiner's earlier days of being a robot are cringe-tacular.

I am, however, a great fan of the better Star Trek movies--2,4,6, and First Contact. The movies added enough gravitas to the TOS crowd; it's like watching crotchety old dudes save the world all the freakin' time (by which I mean, it's awesome). And First Contact is just a great movie--SPACE ZOMBIES.

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HEATHEN!!!!!!! Thou shalt not speak ill of Next Gen!

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Look, I'm just not a fan of Trek in general. But I think my mortification at Next Gen is due to it being far too recent a show such that I recognize all the players from other stuff I liked better, yet old enough that the acting choices, effects, and haircuts are still ridiculous. It's actually hard to watch. It'll get better and it will be like TOS, where it's ridiculous but harmless.

Either way, it doesn't really matter to me since I probably still won't be watching it.

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The hair and clothes are pretty ridiculous, I'll grant you that. But TNG created such a catalog of all the best space opera sci fi stories that almost any other show in that genre now can't help but borrow from them.

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Name some. I'm not being difficult or facetious, I'm just curious. Most of the episodes I remember were fairly average, not really groundbreaking. I'm just wondering what I missed.

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oblvndrgn.livejournal.com

Off the top of my head, there's an episode where Picard basically lives an entire life on an alien (crinkle-forehead aliens) planet. It was pretty good.

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FYI -- I'm not ignoring you, this request will just take some time, which I don't have an over abundance of at the moment. But I will get back to you.

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Hey, no worries. Whenever. Glad you're busy, honestly :)

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moonlightalice.livejournal.com

I'm doing the whole ST watch, too. Finished Next Gen a few months ago, haven't gotten the DS:9 DVDs so I'm watching TOS via Netflix Watch-It-Now. We can do a DS:9 watching group, though!

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