I started watching Strange New Worlds the other week, I’ve really enjoyed the writing! The only other Trek media I’ve seen were the Abrams movies, which were okay I guess. I understand Strange New Worlds is a prequel to the original series, is it worth it to watch the original series after I finish it? Are there any series to avoid?
I would avoid Discovery entirely. Personally, Voyager and the first two seasons of Enterprise are my favourites, but I do recommend watching The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine first. Regarding the Original Series, I’d go for a list of best rated episodes and then watch the movies (you can skip the first one, though). There is a lot of criticism about newer Trek in general, but I absolutely recommend watching Prodigy after Voyager and save Lower Decks for when you watched most of the other shows. Otherwise you will miss out on many fun references.
STD and PICARD is definitely the worst, Kurtzman really isnt that interested in trek, hes only there because he was tapped for it.
So TNG -> DS9 -> Voyager -> Enterprise -> Prodigy would be a good order?
I would recommend you make up your own mind about Discovery. It gets a lot of hate for being very different than other Star Trek, but if you take it on its own it can be enjoyable, and it’s visually gorgeous to watch. It also feeds into Academy, which has similar criticisms, but again you should watch them and see if you like them, don’t let strangers’ hate keep you from something you might end up loving. I’m a traditional Trekkie, but I find a lot to like in the new shows.
But otherwise, yeah, that order is good. Save Lower Decks for last to catch all the jokes and fan service.
I’ll give it a whirl at some point!
I can only speak for myself, but I doubt there’s anything wrong with that order. You can easily skip the first half of TNG season one to avoid some very bad episodes, but apart from that TNG is very solid.
Contrary to many other opinions, I did enjoy the TNG movies with the exception of Nemesis.
sure?
If you want to speed up the process, the best of TNG is seasons 3-5, it skips the weird early stuff and the later season “we’re running out of ideas” stuff.