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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'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.

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