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Should I watch Star Trek? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Limited time offer. I have an upcoming trip and I’m looking for something to watch. Is Star Trek actually good, or only nostalgic? Should I just search for episode 1 and press play, or is there something I need to know first?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (7 children)

How long is your trip?

DS9 is the best, and is was written for binge watching before anyone was even doing that. It is about 130 hours long. If you are just looking for 5-6 hours of stuff you'd probably want to get episode recs.

It's hard for me to view it neutrally as would an outsider.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

For op sec I’ll keep it vague, but it is nowhere near 130 hours.

Would it spoil the show to watch episodes out of order?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I don't think it would spoil anything. They were meant to be viewed in syndication which means people could see any combination of eps in any order. However for whatever reason they were constantly fighting against the format and making netflix shows before nextfix. Like there is an ?8?-part episode IIRC. If you just drop in on that, it'll be confusing.

As a general thing I think these are widely-understood as some of the standout eps

In the Pale Moonlight - About having to make difficult decisions in war. Scheming and bending ethics.
Far Beyond the Stars - A time travel afro futurism episode where Sisko lives the life of a Black science fiction writer in 1950s US. He remembers DS9 reality mostly as a story he is writing

of himself and a future for humanity. But it seems realer than a story. He is considered insane.

Rejoined - A species who switch bodies every so often are generally prohibited from getting back with their past lovers once they've moved on. But these 2 do so anyway and now one of them is a woman so it's also gay. Or is it?? I think it's an allegory to lgbt things which just happens to use women tongue kissing. (In the world of the TV show, the scandal is that they are breaking the rule about getting together post-body switch.)

And looking at the list (I don't know what eps are called so having a hard time knowing what's what

Series Premier - I think it was a fun start and set up some conflicts
House of Quark - Ferengi is forced to marry a sexy klingon lady due to palace intrigue and manages to bring honor to double entry accounting.
Hippocratic Oath - The enemy in a war for everything has genetically engineered super soldiers that are kept disciplined by an innate drug addiction. Should do-gooder-wanna-be Dr Bashir help them to break the addiction? Will they become chill?

Any epsiodes with the Maquis are good bets (anti0federation, anti-cardassian rebels). There are a lot of bajorian ones about getting shit back together after decades of occupation. But there are lots of one-offs too. Like the one where oBrien goes to mind jail.

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