I poked around a while and couldn’t find anything, I see memes from y’all all the time and the progressive nature of Star Trek has got me. I wanna watch it.
Where do I begin?
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It depends entirely on your tolerance for and/or exposure to the different style of older TV shows. If you’re accustomed to a slightly slower pace and a markedly lower production value, I’d recommend starting with The Next Generation or Deep Space 9 and just start binging. If the kitsch of 60s TV appeals to you, The Original Series is great, just very different in style.
Once you’ve got a dozen episodes under your belt, you’ll know whether a given series is your bag or not. But you might not like TOS and adore DS9, and so on.
Be prepared for some real stinkers at the beginning, and scattered throughout but just know that’s part of having 20+ episodes per season.
If you’d rather just catch up with the most current series, I’d say start with season 1 of Strange New Worlds. You really can’t go wrong starting there.
This is the best answer. In that there isn’t a single answer. Totally depends on what you like as a person.
If you find old shows charming, start with the original series and just roll with it. The original series is iconic, and it’s fun to see where it all came from.
If you want a little more substance, start with Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s peak Trek in many ways (in terms of the whole Trek philosophy and world building).
This is what I usually recommend, too. Also I ususally say don’t feel bad about skipping most of TNG Seasons 1&2 if it’s not hooking you right away. Algernon_Asimov had a good guide at Daystrom ranking which episodes could be more or less skippable.
This sub has a wiki guiding you where to start. I followed it and decided to go with TNG first.
Blasphemy warning…
I’d probably start with Strange New Worlds. Then go back for TNG, DS9, and Voyager.
Not blasphemy at all.
ToS isn’t good. It was decent for the time, but it’s not good.
TAS, see above but for kids. Think the Scooby-doo show from the 60’s.
I liked Enterprise when I watched it on tv, but not a lot of people liked it.Other than SNW the new Trek shows aren’t really “core trek” either. They each have their own style which appeals to different people.
I wanted to like Discovery, but it seems to want to be a CW show about 3/4 of the time. We made it through the first two seasons and stopped.
Picard: I also wanted to like it. He’s my husband’s favourite captain after all. I burst out laughing when Dahj is jumping around like a superhero in the first episode That’s as far as I got.
Lower Decks: Not a fan of the adult-comedy-cartoon genre.
Prodigy: I am not in the right age demographic.So I don’t want to “well ackchually” you but I was curious about your claim about TOS so I looked it up and you were wrong, it’s actually really good.
Kirk flirted with a little girl. Because that was normal in the 60s.
Opinions will differ.
Some are wrong. TOS is a very good show. It’s a genre you have to enjoy though. Not liking something is completely different than it being bad.
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and God is real
Lots of gods are real in Star Trek. Like Kukulkan.
If you’re a kid, start with Prodigy. If you have a tiny attention span, start with Lower Decks. If you’re used to mainstream modern TV, start with Strange New Worlds. If you can tolerate 90s TV, start with TNG season 2. If you love old TV, start with TOS.
The best entry point is going to depend on who you are. There’s lots of diverse Trek for different kinds of people.
