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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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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 :)

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