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and i guess you also have to watch “skin of evil” but it makes me real fuckin mad to have to say that
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this is most practically a question for @anxiouspdg but also a question for all of you, no it is two questions: i get asked a lot how to start watching star trek and i have a pretty good (if potentially mildly controversial) answer to this question and i have written it down several times in the form of guides to TNG-qua-TNG and guides to TNG For People Who Want To Watch DS9 and i can’t fucking find any of them.
1. do you know where my star trek primers are
2. do you have star trek primers of your own or ones to recommend?
i should put all of these things in a master post so i don’t have to reinvent the fucking warp drive every time i get asked this question
AHA, ana @beifongdynasty to the rescue: THIS is what i was looking for. think i’m gonna fuss with the guide to TNG s1-2 a bit but serviceable enough for now.
@runicmaquette, now all u gotta do is fire up ‘farpoint’ and never look back
Also, a lot of what can only be called mindrape happens on TNG, usually to Deanna, sometimes to Beverly, very rarely to the whole crew. Sometimes it is reasonably well framed and condemned, as in 'Violations,' which remains a profoundly disturbing episode. Sometimes it is not well framed or even acknowledged, as in 'The Price.' Sometimes it is just a complete why-would-you-even-make-this-episode clusterfuck, like 'Sub Rosa', which is so bad that it loops back to horrorlarious. And sometimes it's so totally inarticulably uncomfortably weird that you can't help but stare, as in 'The Game'.
So. This is a thing; you have been warned.
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so i've watched some of the beginning of tng and wasn't into it (i think i was supposed to skip episodes lol) and i'm usually really into watching things chronologically, but do you think it would be better to start with ds9? or skip to a certain point in tng? i must join this fandom, it has the best people
I’m bumping this question to sophiagratia whom I believe has Opinions on When TNG Gets Good…?
oKAY EXCUSE ME HI YES.
First of all, I am proud of you, twitterpatedlyyours, for being really into all my Star Trek reblogs even though you have apparently never seen this show? Good taste, friend.
SO. The first season of TNG is UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE SO BAD, LIKE, SOOOO BAD. It is by now perhaps a commonplace, though the notion must have originated with a specific person, that s1 is a series of bad propaganda films about the actual characters. That said, there are some real gems lurking in there. Same goes for s2.
Here is my watching guide for these two seasons:
[I have left off some episodes, like 'Angel One,' because they are So Bad They're Good, but belong to a more advanced level (it will be covered in Trek Studies 201: Special Topics in Lamé and Bad Cultural Politics Choices). ]
Season 1:
- Encounter at Farpoint, or, The Pilot You Don't Yet Know How To Love, But God, Will You Love It
- The Naked Now
- Where No One Has Gone Before
- Lonely Among Us
- Haven
- The Big Goodbye
- Datalore
- Home Soil
- Arsenal of Freedom
- Conspiracy
- The Neutral Zone
Season 2:
- The Child
- Elementary, Dear Data
- Unnatural Selection
- The Measure of a Man
- The Royale
- Time Squared
- Q Who
- Manhunt
- The Emissary
Note that if you are into our gal BCrush, she disappears for the course of the second season, so you will miss her. But her replacement, the wry, self-assured, no-shit-taking, controversially opinionated Katherine Pulaski, is very worth watching.
Nothing bad will happen to you if you skip straight to s3.
As for DS9, I maintain that it is absolutely vital to have some experience of TNG and its world-building and its ideologies in order to adequately appreciate DS9. I have already done a TNG Primer for Would-Be Niners.
Pre-requisites for enrollment in Trek 201: Special Topics in Federation Politics, 'Deep Space Nine'
Some consensus is developing. Huge thanks to my followers (and their followers) for their help! New additions welcome, though we don't want to overwhelm anyone.
First, I'll say that you'll want to avail yourself – cautiously, because spoilers – of Memory Alpha, the amazingly comprehensive Trek wiki, for all kinds of information. (You will know you are a Trekkie for true when you permanently install it in your browser's search bar.)