Please understand: I mean this in a very, very loving way. Lemmy has so much content and so many references that I do not understand but it’s awesome seeing all these passionate communities outside of my usual circles.

  • Grayox@lemmy.ml
    99·
    10 months ago

    All the star trek memes convinced me to start a star trek watch through. Didn’t realize there were so many dang episodes, its gonna take a while.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      112·
      10 months ago

      Every night I look forward to new adventures on whatever Star Trek series that I’ve come to.

      If I fall a sleep during an episode, I blame the episode, and I haven’t regretted cutting them short like that. The good ones will be worth it and most of the bad ones too, but when the android character is playing a theater part of Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck and I’m supposed to give a shit? No.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Likewise. I downloaded what’s supposed to be every episode. I don’t know how I’m going to find the time to watch all this. Very intimidating.

      • Grayox@lemmy.ml
        12·
        10 months ago

        Holy shit i just googled it and there are 903 episodes including the movies…

        • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          It took me like a week to download what I think is all of them from a decent cable connection. I do intend to watch this but it’s going to take me like a year given that I have a job.

          However, I’m very privileged in a sense. I get to watch them for the first time. How many fans would love to rewatch episodes for the first time?

          • Grayox@lemmy.ml
            2·
            10 months ago

            Not sure, i just googled, dont have time to count them all myself lol so damn many

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
          3·
          10 months ago

          If you’re looking for a way to start, Next Generation (TNG) is a good entry point, though you might want to start with season 3 (it’s when it really started to feel polished). If you like that then Voyager is similarly episodic and easy to watch, though the writers could’ve treated some of the characters a little better in that. Modern episodic trek is Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, also both immediately fun and easy to get into.

          Deep Space 9 is what started trek on having longer serialized arcs, and Enterprise also has long story lines (the entirety of season 3 was one arc).

          And I’ll probably get some disagreement for this, but despite having grown up on trek and watched almost everything that’s out there (I think I just have 1 or 2 seasons of Discovery left), I’ve never really been able to watch much of the original series. It just feels way too dated for me. Maybe if the guys over at the Greatest Generation podcast pick it up I’ll try to work through it.

          • Grayox@lemmy.ml
            2·
            10 months ago

            I wanted to start with TNG but my partner insisted on starting at the beginning, that being said its been really fun watching tropes get introduced, like Kirk getting his shirt ripped and bones saying, “I’m a doctor not a -----” its really good if you even slightly enjoy campy stuff and has gotten tons of laughs from us as we watch it. But yeah TNG is the best place to start imo.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Same here actually. Halfway through the first season of TNG. Happy to have something to binge. Also going to switch to Linux in the neat future.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I did the math a while back it’s well over a thousand hours for all the series and movies. With the recent surge in new properties, it’s going to be much higher than what I came up with even a few years ago.