I hear a lot of mentions of that show, someday™ I’m going to get to watching it!

Interesting! I’m glad to hear it can.

It appears you like shows with a ship named Enterprise in it!

Nearly all the things you mention are issues I have with both Discovery and Picard! The storylines of the seasons I watched didn’t really grab me to begin with, and then dragged on way longer than needed. I’m not that big a fan of the 10 or 15 hour movie idea, but it’s even worse when there isn’t enough story.

Yeah, some of the episodes do work a lot better when they’re watched back to back.

Unfortunately I see many people talking about TOS looking too dated to watch, or the acting and stories not holding up. While I’ll admit it doesn’t look quite as shiny as the new shows, I still enjoy it! I’m guessing that’s one reason, the other is that a lot of the older TOS fans are either passing away or old enough that they’ve stopped talking about the shows online!

It’s really great! From what I hear you weren’t the only person to not be a fan when it came out! I’ve met various Trek fans who always avoided it until recently, and now it’s one of their favorites.

I honestly never realized Voyager and Enterprise were this popular until I started following Lemmy more!

I use Jellyfin as well, it’s so much nicer than going to the shelf to grab the cases to stick the disk in. Having it keep track for where I am in the series is also a plus.

Exactly, I always imagined it focusing on recurring characters within various factions on the ship. They could have had various Maquis characters working on their own agendas and struggling more with being on a Starfleet ship, or maybe they picked up some aliens along the way and are trying to integrate them into life on the ship. They did the second thing to some degree with Seven, but having a group of actual aliens would have been interesting too. Especially if some of the aliens turned out to be planted there to cause trouble.

I’ve watched DS9 so many times, but I still enjoy slipping right back into it again.

That sounds like a Trek filled life! 🖖🏼I don’t usually have the time to watch a lot over the warmer months, but in the winter my spouse and I tend to fit in a good bit more.

I know that feeling well!

I did hear that it transitioned to more of a drama part way through, so I’ll keep that it mind when I get to watching it. Yes, hearing that Dolly was on a science fiction show was not on the list of things I expected to happen! I was raised around country but as I got older I began to prefer jazz, so I have to balance 90’s Trek’s love of jazz against that now.

It took me a bit to warm up to Lower Decks, but I like it pretty well now! It has a lot of heart, and certainly isn’t above laughing at itself!

It looks good! I was hoping to get some pictures of it, but we had thick clouds the entire time.

I’ve been watching a decent amount of Classic Doctor Who recently, so not a lot of Star Trek!

• SNW 2x07 Those Old Scientists
• SNW 2x08 Under the Cloak of War

There are a lot of good episodes in both of those!

You’re right, if you haven’t watched all of the Trek shows you’re definitely not going to get nearly as much enjoyment from Lower Decks! There are even references to things that weren’t previously canon, like the Star Trek helmet, so even then you won’t get all the jokes.

I really enjoy SNW, it’s always pretty high on my list. It’s been especially great since this is the first time I’ve had a Trek show I really like that I’m watching while it’s still in production! I have some annoyances with it here and there, mostly due to the fact that it’s a prequel, but I can more easily overlook that because most of the rest of it is good.

I really think Enterprise and Voyager both were missed opportunities. Enterprise for a lot of the reasons you mention, and Voyager I felt could have had a lot more continuity. It was the perfect place to have a lot of recurring characters and DS9 style arcs, but they never really committed.

It wouldn’t be my preferred ranking, but that’s fine! I’ve seen a lot of people that look a lot more favorably at VOY and ENT now that some time has passed. Not that they were ever actually bad, I think pretty much any of the shows would have had a harder time of it in that time period.

I’m glad I put that logo on the collage then! There’s not a lot of them, but they’re kind of interesting short stories that don’t really fit in the modern serialized format.

Nice! There’s a lot of good Trek stories in those shows.

That a good way of doing it! I’m definitely looking forward to Lower Decks season 5, I think they said it starts the end of next month. It’s also going to feel like a long wait for SNW too.