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[–] aeronmelon 56 points 3 months ago (36 children)

You have to specify which era, at least:

  1. Your parents’ Star Trek. Cheaply made and over the top acting. Aliens are mostly excuses to show half-naked women or use props from other shows to save money. But it has very important life lessons that everyone should learn.

  2. Your Star Trek. Lots of boring talking, but that’s the best part! Certain episodes have become increasingly problematic as the years go by and even later episodes suffer from limited budgets. But the good ones stand out as the highest points of the franchise and they will likely never be topped.

  3. The kids’ Star Trek. Over-produced, shaky cameras, lens flares, and everyone is a sex-starved alcoholic for some reason. In spite of the frequently cheap filmography, the show has never looked better, never been more accessible, and everyone is proudly represented.

[–] xantoxis 24 points 3 months ago (6 children)

For most people in this community, TNG is your parents' star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents' Star Trek, at the earliest.

Your Star Trek is MAYBE voyager, but Enterprise has been around over 20 years now, and people with jobs and taxes to pay watched that as young people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm the Enterprise crowd. I was 10 years old.

EDIT: I grew up on TNG. Saw First Contact in theaters at age of five.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

For most people in this community, TNG is your parents' star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents' Star Trek, at the earliest.

Amazing how you do not think too much about your own age, until you see it staring back at you in black and white!

By this community’s standards at least I can say I did Live long. The Prosper part, not so much.

[–] edgemaster72 6 points 3 months ago

I took that as 1 being TOS/TAS/OG Movies, 2 being TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT/TNG Movies, 3 being everything from the 09 movie onwards

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

To me I didn't watch ST growing up. I started when I was at least a teenager, maybe early 20s, around 2012 or so probably. I started with TNG though, and my favorite is DS9, which started the year I was born. I consider it my ST, even though Enterprise is probably what should be considered my contemporary. For sure, TNG would be my parent's though, if they watched it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

For most people

You might want to realize that you are not "most people"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I remember watching TNG with my mom as a kid. She recorded it on VHS and we'd fast forward through commercials.

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