https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoQtFok3o0

Scotty with that cool beard, oh hells to the yeah!

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#2: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 3 (pilot 2) "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by James Goldstone.

Stardates 1312.4 through 1313.8 (October 2266)

"Command and compassion is a fool's mixture." - Gary Mitchell

The USS Enterprise is exploring the galactic edge when it finds a log buoy from the SS Valiant. When Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy) examines the contents, he learns that the ship had passed through the galactic barrier. When she returned, chaos erupted onboard and the Captain ultimately ordered the ship destroyed. Captain James Kirk (William Shatner) believes that the answer to what happened lies on the other side of the galactic barrier and orders the Enterprise through. After suffering significant damage and crew injuries, a member of the bridge crew starts to experience a transformation that threatens everyone.

Originally released: 22 September 1966

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" on Memory Alpha

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#1: Star Trek: The Original Series pilot 1 "The Cage"

Written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Robert Butler.

Stardate unknown (Sometime in 2254)

"It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves." - Number One

As Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) muses to the ship's doctor about how tired he is of the responsibilities of captaining a starship, the USS Enterprise receives a distress call from from the SS Columbia on a distant world known as Talos IV. The message confirms the ship crashed and that there are survivors, so the Enterprise alters course to mount a rescue. But once they arrive, and meet a curious young survivor among the crew, Pike is suddenly taken hostage and the Enterprise is held in orbit by strange beings with enormous telepathic power.

Originally released: February 1965 (originally released to the public: 14 October 1986)

"The Cage" on Memory Alpha

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Has anyone ever tried make the game into real life?

While I hate Capitalism, seems to be all about Capitalism & hate Gambling, I think it would be a great new product to hit the games market.

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"The what?"

For those that don't know, I just finished rewatching the existing episodes of The Orville over on that community. Since I've been wanting to rewatch "all of Star Trek" for a while now, I've decided to turn it into a community event.

"All of Star Trek, meaning ALL of Star Trek?"

Yes, e-ven-tu-al-ly.

"By Stardate?"

In order by Stardate and/or calendar date. Meaning the first two episodes in the list are The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before, because those two episodes occur the earliest, chronologically. For the most part, the official Stardate given in the episode or assigned to it by official sources is used and the calendar date is extrapolated, with rare exception where an episode or movie is "out of order" to correct a continuity issue. An explanation will be provided anytime that happens.

"What does 'Part I' mean?"

Part I = The original run of shows and movies first conceived by Gene Roddenberry & Majel Barrett and continued by... that other guy. Simply put, everything from the original Star Trek series through to Voyager and all the movies through to Nemesis.

"So, Part II would be..."

The Kelvin Timeline (Enterprise & the Kelvin movies). And Part III would be the modern timeline; Everything from Discovery to Academy, in chronological order.

"Why are you separating the old shows from the new shows? If it's chronological, then shouldn't Enterprise be first?"

Due to all the differences and changes seen in the timeline since Star Trek began producing prequel series, I ascribe to a three-timeline continuity. The original timeline (TOS, TAS, movies I~VI, TNG, DS9, VOY, & movies VII~X), the Kelvin timeline (ENT, & Kelvin movies), and the modern timeline (ENT, DIS S1 & 2, BNW, LD, PRO, PIC, DIS s3~5, S31, SA, and the Short Treks when they occur).

This post and rewatch isn't about arguing the validity of how I believe everything fits together, that's just how I make everything make sense without excluding anything. In addition to that:

• I want to watch the shows I grew up with first, then everything else. I also don't want to wait several years before watching The Next Generation (my favorite show and arguably the best of Star Trek). ;)
• Splitting the rewatch into those three groups also very roughly keeps the entire franchise in production order. The most-notable changes being TAS begins and ends within TOS, movies V & VI coming before the beginning of TNG, DIS is split into two distant segments, and BNW comes before all the shows that aired between it and DIS. Another way to look at it is: Part I is 20th-century Star Trek, Part II is Kelvin Star Trek, and Part III is the rest of 21st-century Star Trek.

I've spent a few years fine-tuning my chronological lists but I haven't watched through Star Trek in this order before. I'm using this as an excuse to test my work and see if anything needs fixing.

"Okay, whatever. So when is this happening?"

Starting this weekend, and continuing every weekend unless I am indisposed (or WWIII starts. In which case, I will move to Montana to help the surviving scientists build warp drive). Once Part I is completed (in a few years), Part II will immediately begin, and so on.

"How frequently? How many episodes per week?"

Two episodes per week, each with a separate post. This weekend, as mentioned above, is the two original pilots: The Cage & Where No Man Has Gone Before. To improve the speed of the rewatch, two-parters will be treated as a single episode (But differently-named episodes of an arc, such as in DS9, will not) and share the same post. If one or more of the episodes that week is animated (30 minutes instead of an hour) or a short, there will be three episodes that week.But if that week has a movie, the whole weekend will be exclusively dedicated to the movie.

There will also be a master post containing links to every entry watched so far. The master post will be linked to in each rewatch post.

"Where will you post?"

Here on c/startrek on lemmy.world. This is for the greatest amount of exposure to subscribers and non-subscribers alike and to get the best odds against the instance collapsing a few years into the run, which would force me to re-upload everything somewhere else. I also don't want to make ANOTHER Star Trek community just for this.

"Where can I see the list for Part I?"

Right here.

This list is complete, but I still need to finish adding notes to each entry. The content of those notes will be included with each entry anyway. (The list also includes a fan production, which is explained in the description. Ignore those for now. I'm either going to skip those episodes entirely or watch them alongside the first six movies.)

I hope you will join me in wasting the next several years of my life doing this!

"See you, out there." - Q

EDIT: I didn't specify where I would keep the master list of entry posts, so I will edit this post once I start posting tomorrow. So bookmark/save this post if you want the glossary. Otherwise, just check this community each week to find the newest entries in the rewatch party.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41486016

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Archive link: https://archive.ph/tnCPO

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1524324/happy-as-a-pig-in-shit-paul-giamatti-says-his-starfleet-academy-role-fulfills-a-lifelon

So, I decided to start watching Star Trek First Contact on Thanksgiving, not only because that's when the Vulcans met the humans, but it's also when the Borg didn't bring smallpox to stop the first warp flight... They brought nanites.

This episode would be perfect for a modern message. Captain accidentally starts falling for an AI? Doctor encouraging her to continue because it's a release since she can't have a relationship with a subordinate because it'd be improper.

Perfect moral dilemmas for our modern day.

But what does nutrek give us? Retread morality you can find in a kids picture book. And that's BEST CASE. More common to find action or relationship drama.

I'm ready for Trek that's willing to make us question ourselves for what's right and wrong.

Modern TV shows take longer to come out with fewer episodes. Since the boom of peak TV in the 2010s, every show is trying to be a 10 hour movie, driving up production costs and leaving audiences starving for entertainment at a time they should have a wealth of it. TV shows have forgotten the strengths of the long-format, both in storytelling and in production.

Uploaded to YouTube by Rowan J Coleman.

Post-airwaves TV can be as long or as short as it needs to be, and there are many examples of new streaming series that have some short episodes and some long episodes because that's how long or short they needed to be. I don't think episode runtime or season/series length is a hard indication of how good they are. The amount of money spent per episode often is, though, especially with modern Star Trek.

The least expensive series (Lower Decks & Prodigy) are clearly the best, overall. While the most expensive series (Discovery & Picard) have managed to dig past rock bottom on multiple occasions. My favorite episode of Discovery (Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad) was a bottle episode made at the last minute on a very tight budget to fill the season, and those limitations clearly resulted in a neat little timeloop adventure reminiscent of original Star Trek.

But that's just my opinion.

If you haven't, watch Coleman's lengthy Star Trek Retrospective series. Some of the videos are indeed very long (irony), but they earn their runtimes with how well Coleman sizes up the franchise through the course of them all.

I’d only watched bits and pieces of TNG before, but starting with the first episode…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36357120

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36274218

I’ve just finished this, that was a blast ! Great Star Trek Story and a lot of TellTale drama. Really cool « little » game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31

"In SNW, Vulcans are most often the butt of jokes, and that joke is, just about universally, look at how logical these Vulcans are! In season two’s “Charades,” Spock (already half-human) is turned fully human by a noncorporeal intelligence. This immediately makes him smelly, horny, hungry, and catastrophically emotional, things he apparently was unable to be when he was biologically part Vulcan. Later, in season three’s “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans,” four human crew members are turned into Vulcans, which makes them into science-loving assholes obsessed with facts and logic, save for one who, because she got turned into a Romulan, turns scheming and mutineering and altogether evil. There is little nuance in the show’s portrayal of Spock and his emotions, and even less in how it regards anyone with two Vulcan parents. Vulcans in SNW, to oversimplify (but not by much), are cruel, petty beings obsessed with logic and science simply because they are Vulcans."

"Bioessentialism, in brief, is the ultimate anti-liberty philosophy: a bioessentialist universe is a clockwork universe, one where every choice a person makes can be traced back to a fundamental and irrevocable feature of their DNA. A bioessentialist wants nothing from you but your cooperation in the role they’ve decided you must play in their world; God help you if you say no. It’s an ideology so self-evidently evil that it’s at the center of just about any young adult dystopian novel my fellow Millennials may have read in middle school. If you believe in human self-determination in any way, it’s a concept you must not only refuse but actively resist.

Which, of course, makes it all the stranger that it’s so present in a television show that’s been celebrated since its debut for its progressive politics."

The Star Trek Khan Podcast has been released today and it’s featuring George Takei and Tim Russ!

https://blog.trekcore.com/2025/09/star-trek-khan-audio-drama-premieres-first-episode-today/

Robert Picardo talks about how he conned his way into Star Trek First Contact

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