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I have decided to watch all the Star Trek series in the order of their airing from Next Generation forward. I estimate this will take me a year or eighteen months. In entering the DVDs into my Netflix queue, I discovered that there is, in fact, an upper limit to queue length. Who knew?

That's 25 seasons between the four series, plus the movies. Any bets on how long it will be until I am absolutely sick of Star Trek?

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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.)

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.

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.

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

I know, that's what I meant.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

That would be fun, if we could keep it going! (Like we tried and failed to do with X-Files and Farscape...)

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