My god I love the "eh fuck it" attitude this one has to lore. This show just loves to make shit up on the spot, and that is just incredible.

It's also fun to see "the show that started it all," the cheesy 60s exaggerated acting, the skungy sets, the gorgeous model of the Enterprise (sadly Netflix only has the version with the CGI recreation), and the wild moon logic they use for some of the twists.

What I could get the most out of from this show was the performances. There's a reason why there's two Leonard Nimoys to the sides of this text, the man was legendary. William Shatner and DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig, too. They're all incredible (Nichols especially, whenever they let Uhura do anything).

It has issues, it drags at times, what at the time was insanely progressive still had a very US-centric perspective, and half the episodes are just "what if problem BUT ALSO WOMAN?? WOMAN SEX???????????????" Roddenberry had his preferences.

So, if you can take the show and its problems for what they are, you're in for some incredible 60s silly yet sincere optimistic sci-fi.

Very bad. Skip it unless you like laughing at the cheap 1970s animation.

Ok so, the first movie is boring as shit and it kinda slays because of that, but I wouldn't recommend it really.

Other than that, you're in for an amazing time with Star Trek II to VI (II, III and IV especially), to the point where I'd recommend them even if you haven't really seen much Star Trek before.

They get serious, they get big, they get goofy, all in the best ways possible. Plus, III and IV show that Nimoy could fUCKING DIRECT holy shit those movies are SO well directed.

These movies follow a continuous plot, though the most important ones are 2, 3 and 4's, and then 5 and 6's.

They might be lacking in weirdo goofy shit to the level that the show went to (except for the first one maybe) but FUUUCK they offer so much in its place it's worth it.

The best show about guys sitting in a room discussing politics all day.

There's a reason why this show is such a classic. It takes that optimism, that commitment to the very best that humanity can be and it just fucking goes with it.

I wouldn't recommend binging this one, just watch a few episodes at a time, cus otherwise it can start to feel very repetitive.

Just like with TOS, this show would not be the same without its characters. While they're all phenomenal (and Tasha could've been if she were given more of a chance), the best of the best here is Data. Brent Spiner's performance, not just as Data, but Lore, Noonien Soong, but all the other excuses he gets to flex how truly versatile he is.

Worf is also very important to the progressive message of the show. Here you have a fucking Klingon, a race that was the main antagonist in TOS, TAS and the movies, serving on the flagship of the Federation of Planets! It helps that Michael Dorn also slays hard as Worf, there's a reason he was brought back for DS9 (other than boosting ratings, I promise).

There's so much TNG, and so many different types of episodes that I struggle to think about one specific thing that I could say about the whole show. I can say that there's bound to be something for you in TNG, and if you don't wanna watch it from beginning to end (understandable, the first two seasons are ROUGH), you can't go wrong with watching random episodes.

Another good thing TNG brought is the best Star Trek videogame (and perhaps best ever videogame).

also i think data does have emotions, he doesnt need the chip he just expresses them differently :c

I really don't have much to say about these.

They mostly just follow Data and Picard, without much caring that much for the other characters.

Generations is alright, if a bit mid, though the PS3 ass lighting they use on thE SAME SETS AS THE SHOW to say "ooo we got movie budget" is very funny. First Contact is really good, though I'm not that big a fan of the Borg Queen as a concept. Insurrection is a bad movie, but an EXCELLENT Star Trek movie. Nemesis is garbage, trash shit.

If you were about to die and watching one of these movies was the only way of saving you, I'd say First Contact is the best one. The only prior knowledge you need for this one is that Data got the emotion chip recently.

I exaggerate, they're not that bad. Just know that you're not getting into the excellent saga that the TOS movies were.

"On Earth there is no poverty, no crime, and no war. You look out the window and you see Paradise. Well, it's easy to be a saint in Paradise but the Maquis do not live in Paradise." - Benjamin Lafayette Sisko in "The Maquis, Part II"

OH BOY DEEP SPACE NINE

Ok strap your seatbelts, tuck your dicks in, get fucking ready because DS9 is PEAK Star Trek.

This show made the bold decision in the 90s to be serialised instead of episodic, and I think it's part of why it has aged SO much better than the other shows.

EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER is a delight to see on screen, both in serious moments, and in more comedic bits. There's some characters that start out kinda meh but grow SO much over the course of the show that by the end you just wanna give them a lil kiss on the lips.

They fleshed out the Cardassians, they made the Ferengi good (Quark is my boyfriend btw, this is A QUARK APPRECIATING WEBSITE), they seriously considered the political tensions between a very recently occupied peoples, their former colonizing freaks, and the fucking Federation of Planets.

The advantage of having characters this consistently strong is that even episodes with mid or bad plots have something to like. To steal a thought from Steve Shives: even when I don't believe in the plot, I believe in the characters. I believe they believe in what is happening.

The show gets darker than ever, but it also has some of the best comedy in the franchise. Seriously you cannot go wrong with this one, it is a banger from top to bottom (Except "Profit and Lace", do NOT watch "Profit and Lace").

Luckily, they had the grace to make the only bad episode completely skippable. Literally everything else in DS9 is fucking perfection and you need to watch it RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

More like VoyaMID

Ok, Voyager is not all mid, some episodes are REALLY good. My problem with Voyager is that it commits the sin of being comfort food.

Now, there's nothing wrong with a comfort food show, something easy to watch to unwind or chill but, at least for me, Star Trek is the last place I'd go looking for comfort food.

Taking again from Steve Shives, I think he put it best when he said Voyager suffers from having "perfectly acceptable Trek" episodes.

I also don't love what they've done to the Borg. They went from imposing and terrifying to another set of recurring villains that they can understand and maneuver around without THAT much trouble.

I do, however, fucking LOVE Seven of Nine, she's me, she is myself and she is me, literally me, you see her and you see me. That is not a character, that is my soul travelling into Jeri Ryan's body in 1997. That is to be my fate when I die, it is written. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

It's a shame, cus when they take advantage of their unique setting, they do some truly incredible things! Sadly, half the episodes were just "hey, remember TNG?"

Boring as shit, skipped it halfway through.

They had the chance to show a side of humanity that was still developing the kind of progressivism and acceptance that TOS and TNG were famous for, but instead they just did TNG again... but with DIFFERENT TECHNO-BABBLE.

What kills this show, other than the crawl that is its pacing, is that it's not confident in its premise. Every piece of technology present in TOS has an analogue here, hell the second or third episode has an alien race with a holodeck!

They could've had something spectacular here, but they lacked the confidence to really get it right.

But hey, the opening is funny as hell, T'Pol and Phlox are amazing, and I adore the look of the Enterprise here, all metallic and full of railings and shit, it looks like an actual ship instead of a cruise, and that is a really nice look.

And there are some fantastic episodes! Regeneration is an incredible prequel in the way they use the Borg, and just a really good episode in general. There is gold among the... rest of the ENT episodes.

Some people say this is not Star Trek, I say bullshit.

As of 10/06/2024, there's only three movies in this timeline and I can say that 2 out of 3 good ones is pretty alright.

If you come in expecting TOS again, you'll be very disappointed. In fact, the second movie, Into Darkness, completely shits itself in trying to be Wrath of Khan again (and not just because Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan doesn't even come close to the big titty old man perfection that was Ricardo Montalbán's).

But if you accept the more frenetic pacing, the fact that these are younger, more inexperienced versions of the characters you already know, you're in for a pretty fucking good first and third movie, with a second movie that's completely skippable.

They're not the best shit you'll ever see, but it's fun, it's different, and it is, indeed, Star Trek.

All of these came out way after the apex of Geocities so these gifs are gonne be much more sparse and boring. Sorry.

This one's super dull. They derail the first season with an extremely stupid venture into the Mirror Universe, the Klingon shit is super boring. This is another Star Trek show I dropped after the second season.

Good things it does, though. Saru, the cutie to the right over there. Captain Pike, he's set up for the next show I'll be talking about. And I'd be doing Star Trek as a whole a disservice if I didn't pay respects to Disco for bringing it back from the dead.

But yea, there's not much more to this. I'd say this is where the real pit of Mid Trek lies. Skip it, you're not missing much.

Haven't seen it

Heard it's dogshit

This one is criminally overlooked. It's a kids show, so I think that contributes to it being viewed as something not worth watching, but this is SO not the case.

This is a wonderful Star Trek show. It has great characters, super interesting plots and its running theme is found family, which I think is lovely.

The cool and interesting thing about Prodigy is that the Federation is mostly abscent. The main characters come from a space gulag where everyone is on their own and don't even know what the Federation is. Not just that, they're also mostly kids, who have to learn to mature and work together as they go.

Dal, the main main-protagonist, that purple fucker you can see right there, is extremely selfish, arrogant, self-interested, and insecure, the last person you'd want to be a captain.

Now, you might be wondering what the fuck Janeway is doing over there, and that is one of the stranger aspects of this show. She's a training hologram who serves as The Adult who guides the characters and the audience, and explains some of the lore that children won't know right away.

The lore aspect I also think was not very well handled. There are tiny references that will make the Mike Stoklasa's in the audience chuckle but won't make any Jay Baumam's feel like they're missing out, but there are also entire episodes and scenes that feel tailor-made for the Rich Evans' and would leave any kids very confused.

I used this prolonged RedLetterMedia metaphor to illustrate what it feels like to watch several key moments of this show. Those of you who know what I'm referring to will surely laugh at how obviously hilarious and original and sexy and smart I am, but those who don't will go "oh, maybe they meant x or y" and feel like they missed the joke.

BUT, the other 80% of the show is very impressive. It follows the usual trope of a Nickelodeon show, and portrays the typical kids show conflicts, but it does it in a very Star Trek way. I would say it's worth watching.

Of the modern Trek shows, this one's easily the best of the best, I REALLY like what it's doing.

This is a prequel to TOS, that follows Pike, the captain that came before Kirk and got strapped to the Beep Chair by the time TOS season 2 took place.

If you expect this to look and feel exactly like "TOS minus a few years", you're not gonna see much of value here, and I think you should do some introspection, because what you want is slop, and this is absolutely NOT slop.

What this is is a different take on the returning characters, along with a few new ones, and a lil sweetiepie of a captain.

It brings back some of the wacky weird shit that TOS got to, while also not trying to emulate all of its atmosphere.

All the classics are here: reusing and trashing the set of the ship to make a different ship, the "an epidemic spreads across the Enterprise and we need to find a cure ASAP" episode, the "what if this alien race is just trying to communicate with us?" episode, all the greats.

But again, this is not just a re-tread of old tropes. The atmosphere is all new, the look of the show is genuinely different (and gorgeous), there's new premises that feel like capital C Classics (oh my GOD please watch Among the Lotus Eaters), and THEY MADE THE FIRST MUSICAL EPISODE IN ALMOST 60 YEARS OF STAR TREK AND IT SLAPS IT FUCKS SO HARD, CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY'D NEVER MADE ONE BEFORE???????????

It's also more episodic, but that really works here! And while not at all perfect, every episode has been a blast.

The only episode that, for me, doesn't work at all is the Lower Decks crossover (Season 2, Episode 7: "Those Old Scientists") but the reasons why it doesn't work are all the reasons why Lower Decks in general is meh, though this episode is still alright.

It also continues the trend of every Spock actor being super hot, so hey, that's another reason to watch it. Seriously, this is one you don't wanna sleep on.

Ok, you know how I accused Voyager of being comfort food? Well, Lower Decks is junk food.

This is a show written by Star Trek giganerds, for Star Trek giganerds. That means it's lovely for when you're feeling like seeing a whole bunch of references, but it also means that it suffers in terms of having an actual plot or its own identity.

My issue with this show is that the characters are written like Star Trek fans, and the universe of Star Trek isn't made up of Star Trek fans, it's made up of Star Trek characters.

I do come back to this show a lot, now that I have all this lore in my head that I need validated. Like I said, it's made for bitches like me.

So yeah, this is a pretty good show if you've seen everything else and you wanna see it all again in joke form, but unfortunately, it does not boldly go anywhere.