Star Trek, best order to watch it all?

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Ahoy,

I've never really watched any of Star Trek properly, but I do like things that are set in space, such as Battlestar Galactica, so I figure I'll enjoy it.

There are obviously a lot of series and films, so could someone please clarify the best order to watch it all?

Is it:

  1. The Original Series
  2. The Next Generation
  3. Deep Space Nine
  4. Voyager
  5. Enterprise

I'm not too bothered about The Animated Series, unless it's awesome?

Are any of the films best watched inbetween any of the series? If so, when?

Lastly, are the various series heavily connected, for example are there a lot of Original Series references in The Next Generation, etc.

Cheers.
 
Switch voyager and ds9 around and you are good to go! The first 6 films should be watched after tos then generations a few seasons into tng, first conct needs to be after season 4 when you meet the Borg, the other two at the end of tng, newest one after everything.

I liked ds9 more than voyager so switching them up is to save the best bits for when you'll most enjoy them.

For interconnectivity enterprise references it all badly, save that till the end. Bits of the tng films reference voyager and ds9 the last film best saved towards the end. Tng over laps with voyager and ds9 after season 4 or 5 (I think) but can be watched separately without any problem.

Enjoy though! Tos and season 1/2 of tng are on bluray which is remastered amd amazing!
 
Chronologically you'd have Enterprise first, but it probably wouldn't work out so well.

Personally, I'd be suprised if you can stomach the whole lot. I've always I found ToS rather tough to get in to, but I'm a total TNG fangirl! Others get terribly excicted by DS9, but not me :p and Voyager can be seen as where the rot set in, though it picks up in latter seasons. Enterprise is pure marmite! It crashed and burned, but the final season has its moments. As for the films, The Kirk and Co. ones are almost universally good, bar No. 5, but the TNG films were less favourably received. The whole thing had got a bit tired by then.

Good luck though, and I have to say that most of us watched the Trek series over the course of many, many years, so the thought of watching them all on DVD from scratch terrifies me! :D


If you like the whole Battlestar Galactica soap opera in space thing, then perhaps Babylon 5 might float your boat as well.
 
Tos is good fun and a good warm up for the quality stuff, the first film though is proper dross, watch very drunk, 5 is just flawed in directing... :p
 
DS9 was great from season 4 onwards. The final season was awesome sauce.
As with all trek series, there are a hell of a lot filler episodes.

Hated Enterprise... Marmite indeed (I love marmite though :D)
 
TOS
(You can watch the Animated Series here as well if you want as it finishes out the five year mission).
Star Trek I-VI
TNG (1-5)
TNG (6&7) & DS9 (1-2)
Star Trek: Generations
DS9 (3&4) & Voy (1&2)
Star Trek: First Contact
DS9 (5&6) & Voy (3&4)
Star Trek: Insurrection
DS9 (7) & Voy (5-7)
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek (2009)

I think that's it.
 
Enterprise really found its feet from the Xindi story arc onwards. They cancelled it just as it got going and the cast had started to gel.

If you watch the early episodes of TNG they are utterly terrible as well! It takes a while for characters to develop.

Shame really, as the whole Romulan War/Founding of the Federation thing they had planned would have been epic to see. The books they made instead were fantastic:

Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm
 
All the shows are worth watching imo bit every show has it's weak points. The first two seasons of TNG and DS9 are poor especially DS9 which was using mostly rejected TNG scripts and the show doesn't go anywhere. In TNG the actors seem to take two years to really get into the roles but by season three of TNG it becomes really enjoyable. The quaility of DS9 just gets better and better with every season by the end of season 2 you start to learn what this show is all about and they introduce the main villians which starts a cleaver story arch for the next season 5 seasons. By three they get a ship which allows for much more action packed storylines. I would go out on a limb and say DS9 by season 7 was by far and above the best trek season of all Ira Buhr deaerves a lot of credit for turning things around.

Voyager is a mixed bag season 1 is ok but season 2 is more of the same and the atory doesn't really go Nywhere. By the end of season 3 and season 4 the show hits its zenith but after this the quaility of the atorylines goes down hill put picks up again by season 7. Voyager was meant to be the premium series (was being filmed alongside DS9) but for a lot of the time I do wonder were the money went. Probably on getting Jeri Ryan's massive assests to point out more.

Enterprise was really good fun I think the producers looked at ds9 and Voyager and saw what worked and what didn't and we were given longer story archs which may have streched for 4/5 episodes or maybe a whole season. It was cancelled long before time there was nothing majorly wrong with the show some of the main characters could have done with some more development but otherwise its a very good show.

TOS 1-3 are your classic seasons. My favorite episode is Balance of Terror where we learn Spokes dad is a Romulan commander. Season 4 budget cuts impair the quaility of the show.
 
HeX said:
Enterprise really found its feet from the Xindi story arc onwards. They cancelled it just as it got going and the cast had started to gel.

If you watch the early episodes of TNG they are utterly terrible as well! It takes a while for characters to develop.

Shame really, as the whole Romulan War/Founding of the Federation thing they had planned would have been epic to see. The books they made instead were fantastic:

Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm
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This, I have read the books and it was really starting to go somewhere.

Enterprise is one of my fave series, when it originally came out I could not get into it watching on Sky One (i think it was sky one) but i tried again on DVD and could not stop watching.
 
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