JoshuaACNewman

@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com

:condemned: he/they.
Teacher, graphic, book, & game designer, hacker, biker, experimental "musician".
Founder of the Indie Bazaar because I love you weirdos.
A liquid engineer, like you.
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Creator of Shock:Social Science Fiction, Mobile Frame Zero, The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, and other games.

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What "third generation" Trek is worth watching?

I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...

beefcat, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

TOS also has some truly awful episodes, but it's pretty easy to ignore them.

I think the low points of DSC and PIC stick out for two reasons:

Recency bias. It's been 15 years since I last watched Code of Honor, and I rarely even think about it except when it's time to make memes about season 1.

Serialization. You can watch TNG, skip bad episodes like Code of Honor or Sub Rosa, and not really lose out on anything. But if you watch DSC and skip a bad episode, you blow a giant gaping hole in the over-arching story.

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