Boldly Going

[amzrigh]

Okay, additionally, having seen the new Star Trek, I'm growing to regret my lack of familiarity with TOS. I haven't seen any of the movies, and my memories of the show are vague and scattered, having seen relatively little, and none in many years

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[youshi_semenjyu]

You should watch "The Menagerie" as well! It's a two-parter and deals a lot with Captain Pike. On that note, you should probably watch "The Cage" before that one, which was sort of like a pilot.

Also, let's see...

"The Tholian Web", "Mudd's Women" "I, Mudd", "The Trouble With Tribbles". "Mirror, Mirror" is good. "Space Seed" you must see before you watch The Wrath of Khan!

All, classics. There's several more I can think of, but I'll have to recall the titles.

As for the films, start with The Wrath of Khan and work your way through.

[al_rants]

As for the series? It depends on what you're looking for. Do you want character development? Are you looking at "pivotal events?" Did you want tech-y geekery? My personal favourite episode is "The Tholian Web", primarily because we get to see Spock in command for a good chunk of the episode. Mirror, Mirror gives you a really good look at the characters and their personality. "Friday's Child" and "For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky" are great for focussing on Dr. McCoy. "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and "Whom Gods Destroy" and "The Mark of Gideon" are pretty good episodes as well. But that's all seen from my Storyteller/Method Actor viewpoint

[notaburrito]

While I've seen a decent chunk of TOS, I'm afraid I'm not very useful here because I can't actually remember the episode names. Maybe when you watch it, I'll be able to recognize the titles when I see them and point a few out.

[phoenix_seraph]

 
I've decided to list these as double and triple features for you, for maximum enjoyment.

FEATURE 1
"Charlie X" is an excellent one if you can overlook the 1960s assumptions about human psychology.   Like all of the best Star Trek episodes, don't focus on scientific reasoning -- focus on the raw emotions and humanity of the characters involved, particularly the title character.

"I, Mudd" for delicious space opera comedy.

"The Ultimate Computer" is startlingly prophetic in its concerns about a McMicrosoft future.

FEATURE 2
"Errand of Mercy" is the best depiction of Klingons ever to hit the small or big screen.

"The Squire of Gothos" but only if no one has ruined its ending for you.

FEATURE 3
"The Changeling" for pure space opera awesome!

"The Empath" is a darkly fun episode which shows why space opera and sword'n'sorcery have so much in common in their views of male and female psychology.

FEATURE 4"The Doomsday Machine" for the first (and best!) iteration of a trope which has appeared throughout most of the incarnations

[geezerlee]

Your other much-geekier friends covered TOS much better than I could. As to DS9, there were aspects that were sometimes annoying (that lame Bajoran religion), but it has some of the best Trek writing from that time.

I still think that DS9 should have consulted with C. J. Cherryh, whose Chanur series show what a real multi-species station would be like. I mean, where were the methane breathers?

When I first heard about Voyager, I really wanted to like it, and some episodes were very good, but overall it wasn't much more than a diversion. Well, there was Seven of Nine...