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Best place to start (self.startrek)

submitted 4 months ago by stankmut to c/startrek

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I've been wanting to get into Star Trek, but I'm not sure the best place to start. I'm sure there's a wide range of opinions.

Some shows 'get good after season 1'. I'm a little worried that I'll end up picking a star trek show with a weak start and then dropping it before the parts people actually like. I vaguely remember reading these sort of comments about TNG.

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[–] Xeroxchasechase 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's probably not something the community will agree, but I think "Strange New Worlds" is the best place to start. It has the soul and the essense of star trek, great episodes and acting and it's modern, so you wont get bored from a 90's series astettics. Afterwards you might want to go the usual path of TNG, VOY, DS9 and Enterprise, these are the essentials.

Lower Decks is fun series with Huge amounts of references, you might want to have a look.

Discovery and Picard are good serieses on their own, and they are integral part of the canon, they just don't have the same storytelling style as the star trek. Last season of Picard I cryed my guts, but that's just because I saw TNG, VOY etc.. before.

Sorry for skippimg the original series, it's just really hard to watch with 60's astettics.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think SNW is the worst place to start, especially for someone who, as I said below, might have less of a tolerance for what earlier decades thought the future would be like. The only problem might be not getting some of the references.

[–] Xeroxchasechase 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that's right. But the shows works even without the references. Unlike Picard season 3, for example, which is not just filled with references but knowing and watching all the previus shows is essential to fully enjoy it. I couldn't imagine seeing the villain (No spoilers) for the first time without feeling the horror that was built in TNG

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 4 months ago

DS9 would also be needed for Picard Season 3.

[–] morphballganon 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do you spell aesthetics like that?

[–] Xeroxchasechase 1 points 4 months ago

The short answer is because the autocorrect didn't correct it. I'm not a native English speaker