• Im_old@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      deep breath So I’m not the most star trek nerd by any measure, but I grew up watching the next generation (TNG), but also some of the original star trek series. And then deep space 9 (DS9) and enterprise. Also the one with the one which is not the enterprise and they got lost (forgot the name). But I’ve lost interest with the recent series. So not a uber nerd but I’ve watched quite a bit.

      I think starting with the MOVIES of the first series is good. But also starting with the series of TNG is ok.

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      9 hours ago

      I literally started due to lemmy posts. I just went in order and watched TOS and TNG. Now I’m going through DS9. I’m really glad I did, because it’s amazing!

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      As others have said, DS9, Lower Decks, TNG, Voyager, are all great choices. Strange New Worlds isn’t bad either.

      Now some potential dealbreakers: Lower Decks is a cartoon and heavily references other shows (but does explain most of those references), TNG is very libbed up and side-steps a lot of the moral questions Startrek is known for, Voy solves those questions with warcrimes, SNW tries to be too inoffensive and is very much directed at fans. I can’t think of anything bad to say about DS9.

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          That’s different

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          because he was preventing settlers from colonizing it, he wasn’t actually attacking civilians, just preventing them from colonizing a couple planets.

          When he assassinated that Vulcan (no spoilers), that was a pretty good example of Perfidy though.