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.

Some good choices! 🖖🏼

I need to watch some Orville sometime, I've heard it's pretty good. The 90's era Treks are always a solid choice. Did you try any of Strange New Worlds? It's got a completely different vibe than the other new shows, and I like the crew.

There's a lot of good stories in those shows!

Lower Decks has a surprising amount of heart for being a comedy show! I've gotten to really enjoy it, although some of the humor doesn't always work for me. DS9 will probably always be my favorite though, at least for the foreseeable future! Sisko is my favorite captain, and I really enjoy the rest of the cast as well.

I can understand the older shows being a little difficult for modern audiences! I grew up with more modern series as well, and some of the older episodes are a little harder to watch. I still enjoy a lot of the stories though.

There's definitely nothing wrong with skipping some of the shows, there's a wide variety of styles in the new ones. I would recommend Strange New Worlds as a potential starting point if you wanted to try any of them though. It feels closest to the TOS era, but with more modern stories and production values.

I'm definitely similar in that I usually enjoy most Trek! I also wasn't a fan of Picard, although I only watched season 1. I just didn't feel the urge to even try any of the later seasons after that. Discovery is not my favorite either, but that's primarily due to the heavily serialized storytelling and the focus on one character instead of a larger cast like many of the other shows.

My two favorite companions in the modern era!

I've heard that mentioned in reference to the show, I'll keep that in mind. Someday I'll get to it! Life keeps me busy.

Found some links:

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Some bans reversed

If I remember right, about a year ago they were banning a lot of Linux players. It might be happening again.

I've never seen a lot of that show, but it seemed interesting. I even own the series set, I just haven't had the time to watch. It doesn't help that my spouse and I normally watch a lot of things together, and she wasn't a big fan of the episodes we had seen!

Some Lower Decks! I'll admit I wasn't a big fan of the first season, but I thought season 2 and onward was better. I'm not always a fan of the style of humor, but I do get some laughs here and there! I would certainly watch a Star Trek animated drama series if they made it.

I appreciate the information! I may have to give at least some of the episodes a try. I'll admit I'm not super thrilled about the interviews I've seen where RTD mentions leaning even harder into fantasy than before, but we'll see!

Ah, that makes sense! It's more something to kind of distract you instead.

In your opinion, are the stories in the new season anywhere near the quality level of the 10th and 11th Doctors? I started noticing I was enjoying them less part way into Smith's run, and it felt like it was an overall downward trend until I stopped watching after Series 9. I thought both Smith and Capaldi did really well with their portrayal, but overall I didn't think the stories and writing had the same spark that the earlier ones had. It might just be the fact that they were more serialized though.

I can't say I've ever tried that to fall asleep, but I will put something on in the background as I'm working on projects. I've never been able to do it with DS9 though, because I always end up watching it instead of working!

I can appreciate a website making a list like this rather than putting five games to a page to garner more clicks! I definitely have different tastes than the reviewers though, which is fine.

Yeah, I would put V in there as well! I still don't like VI nearly as much, even though I've played it quite a few times.

I don't play games to get in the mood for a season, but I've noticed the last couple of years that I'm likely to play some games a lot more in certain seasons!

• Spring: Stardew Valley
• Summer: I don't have anything specific here.
• Fall: Farming Simulator
• Winter: XCOM/XCOM 2

With the anniversary of the first episode happening in the last week, I decided to watch the 30th anniversary episodes.

• DS9 5x06 Trials and Tribble-ations - I always enjoy this episode, and I have a lot of admiration for the production crew being able to pull it off! It's definitely a light and humorous episode, but I don't need or want every episode to be high stakes!
• VOY 3x02 Flashback - Definitely not as light as the DS9 episode, but it was a good way of bringing in some of the TOS characters and showing some alternative angles of Star Trek VI. Definitely an interesting watch.
• SNW 2x05 Charades
• SNW 2x06 Lost in Translation

Nothing wrong with that! I'm kind of the same way, I watch the shows a good bit and have Star Trek stuff around the house year round. I like doing something special on Star Trek Day and First Contact Day for some reason though!

I tend to skip around on most of the shows too, mostly due to limited time. The main exception is DS9, which is the favorite of both my spouse and I. We tend to rewatch the whole thing fairly frequently.