Star Trek really falls into broad categories:

Classic Trek:

Star Trek(1966), Star Trek the Animated Series, and Star Trek movies (1-6)
This is pretty much your "classic" sci-fi stories.
The original series and TAS episodes break down into a few episode types:

1. Social commentary
2. Golden Age Sci Fi short stories writers had that were made to fit Star Trek
3. Comedy
4. Terrible

What episodes to watch of TOS depends on which of the categories above you enjoy.

Movies: 1 and 5 are bad. 2-4 tell a story. 6 is the send off the TOS crew and stories.

TNG Verse:

TNG, DS9, and Voyager Star Trek movies 7-10

TNG great characters and great episodes. But will feel repetitive if binged. Probably can do a "best of" with this series.

DS9 tells an overall story and one of the first serialized tv shows. Takes a while to get its footing. If Sisko has hair then the episode could be rough.

Voyager is a hybrid of the two. Only Star Trek I haven't finished.

Movies: Only First Contact.

Lower Decks is complete fan service for Classic Trek and TNG Verse. It is awesome.

Action Trek:

NuTrek (Chris Pine movies), Discovery, Picard, and soon to be Strange New Worlds (Discovery's Pike Show)

I have mixed feelings about all of these. But they are short of their own thing. It tends to be very modern and action orientated. I am working through Discovery and I don't hate it as much as I thought I would.

Picard is a weird R-rated TNG that doesn't really fit as a continuation of TNG.

Your mileage will vary in this category.

Completely Skip-able Trek:
Enterprise.
There probably isn't a reason to watch enterprise until it is the last thing to check out. It had some decent ideas but generally flawed execution. Was trying to be a soft reboot that ultimately Action Trek has become.

Kids Trek:
Prodigy. Haven't watched.

Arrakis ecologist said:

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Of course it is, your cat DAX agreed

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I miss my Daxie Catsie
Tomorrow is the 2 year anniversary of her passing.

you really have to start with the original series. if you dont get that down the rest of it doesnt do any good....

not that i am much of a fan outside TOS.

i dont remember the full number of episodes, but about 1/3 or the rest are great; 1/3 are just ok. and frankly 1/3 of the episodes are pretty much garbage.

I'd say find a good website giving you a top 25 and start watching them.

i personally would take the following in order they came out:

city on the edge of forever,
the cage,
ultimate computer,
doomsday device,
amok time,
mirror mirror,
space seed,
tribbles,
menagerie,
journey to babel,
assignment earth,
devil in the dark,
balance of terror,
arena,
enterprise incident,
i-mudd,

cloud minders wasnt super great but gets my vote for hottest female lead!



Ps; if you want to see just how bad it can get, have a drink and watch spock's brain.

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TNG Verse:

TNG, DS9, and Voyager Star Trek movies 7-10

TNG great characters and great episodes. But will feel repetitive if binged. Probably can do a "best of" with this series.

DS9 tells an overall story and one of the first serialized tv shows. Takes a while to get its footing. If Sisko has hair then the episode could be rough.

Voyager is a hybrid of the two. Only Star Trek I haven't finished.

Movies: Only First Contact.

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The TNG era movies include Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis. Though, First Contact is the best of movie from the TNG crew imo.

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Tanya 93 said:

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Season 2 of TNG is terrible for the most part.

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Dr. Pulaski > Dr. Crusher

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Bones> the Doctor> Bashir> Crusher > Flox >Pulaski

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Can we get a ST hotties ranking too?

jabberwalkie09 said:

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Dekker_Lentz said:

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TNG Verse:

TNG, DS9, and Voyager Star Trek movies 7-10

TNG great characters and great episodes. But will feel repetitive if binged. Probably can do a "best of" with this series.

DS9 tells an overall story and one of the first serialized tv shows. Takes a while to get its footing. If Sisko has hair then the episode could be rough.

Voyager is a hybrid of the two. Only Star Trek I haven't finished.

Movies: Only First Contact.

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The TNG era movies include Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis. Though, First Contact is the best of movie from the TNG crew imo.

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I meant only First Contact should be watched. The other TNG movies are pretty skipable. I listed 7-10 as part of the TNG Verse family.

7of9>T'pol>Dax*>uhura>counsellor troi




*>gwen dimarco

T'pol>Dax>7of9>Dr Crusher>Uhura

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City in the edge of forever is one of the top 3 episodes of any series, and was really groundbreaking tv. And it had Joan Collins, so theres that.
There was talk that this was the episode that QT was going to base his movie on, but I think that moved to the TNG episode where they went through that warp and the crew was all military.

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Totally agree. Probably my favorite.

I just cant find any charisma in the other series like the originals. There is a reason it started such a phenominon.

Picard was good, but i didnt really like any of the other crew, and i just couldnt get into the other series.

7>troi>t'pol>leeta>jadzia>ezri>uhura>hoshi>kira>keiko>b'lanna>tasha>crusher>>>>>>lwaxanna>>>pulaksi>>>>>janeway

I put T'Pol first. She's…out of this world.

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The Dirty Sock said:

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Avoid Discovery and Picard.

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Awe man. I heard Discovery was bad but I've had high hopes for Picard.

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Love both, but then, I'm a Star Trek fan.

Just saw Tasha die. While her death was done poorly, the gathering to honor her was incredible. I'm tearing up a little.

AggieDub14 said:

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Just saw Tasha die. While her death was done poorly, the gathering to honor her was incredible. I'm tearing up a little.

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So they taped one more episode with her after the one you mentioned, and it aired prior to Skin of Evil. Towards the end of the episode you can see her wave to the camera as a door closes in front of her.

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So they taped one more episode with her after the one you mentioned

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I think she taped a couple more episodes after that.

This is one of those series where the thought of going back and watching that much content kind of breaks my brain. I saw most of the original show because I'm older, but don't remember any of it. Saw much of TNG but don't remember any of it other than I hated Wesley and have seen all movies. Haven't seen any other series outside of original and TNG.

The only movies I really remember are Wrath of Khan because it's the best ST movie of all time and the first Abrams reboot. Seen both of those multiple times.

Lol that's great. I saw that one last night. Piccard is a boss.

AggieDub14 said:

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Lol that's great. I saw that one last night. Piccard is a boss.

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The one where Kirk's son is a junkie and Kahn's henchman is his dealer?

YouBet said:

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This is one of those series where the thought of going back and watching that much content kind of breaks my brain. I saw most of the original show because I'm older, but don't remember any of it. Saw much of TNG but don't remember any of it other than I hated Wesley and have seen all movies. Haven't seen any other series outside of original and TNG.

The only movies I really remember are Wrath of Khan because it's the best ST movie of all time and the first Abrams reboot. Seen both of those multiple times.

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Stuff like this is what makes Lower Decks so much more fun when you've watched a lot of ST.

Worst character?

*Wesley Crusher
*Dr. Old Lady
*Neelix
*Rom

Fightin TX Aggie said:

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Worst character?

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Ensign/First Officer Tilly

Worst character per series

TOS: chekhov (much better in the films "nuclear wessels")
TNG: tasha yar
DS9: rom or ezri
Voy: harry Kim
Ent: Mayweather

Fightin TX Aggie said:

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Worst character?

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Adam, from "The Way to Eden"

Yes, that's Charles Napier.

G Martin 87 said:

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Fightin TX Aggie said:

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Worst character?

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Adam, from "The Way to Eden"

Yes, that's Charles Napier.

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There are plenty of 1 off bad characters.

I'm more thinking of a regular character that you just don't want in an episode.

Next Generation is the best. Don't listen to people that say Deep Space Nine. The concentration of bad acting and arrogant characters in DS9 makes it hard to watch.

Discovery is alright. At least the first season. It's more Sci-Fi than Star Trek.

Enterprise is like if you let a bunch of horny Trek convention goers write their fanfic and then have it actually put on film.