In going thru the original Star Trek series and I am extremely impressed. This writing btfo’s anything today...

There’s so few episodes why would you skip any

People say season three was a decline in quality. But I dont agree with that. Rodenberry and Gene Coon were gone and the budget was cut and they still managed to produce amazing episodes like 'is there in truth no beauty' or 'all our yesterdays' as well as memorable campy episodes like 'the way to eden' (the hippy episode).

There's 79 episodes and at least 5 films ya dope.

I dislike the style of older sci-fi, the music, the special effects. I've never been able to get into TOS very well, TNG is where it's all at imo.

Not a boomer but what impressed me about this was how much the show breathed. It just has like 4 or 5 seconds of silence sometimes, and its refreshing from modern sci-fi where theres always someone screaming or crying or there's some inception tier sound going off while the camera does a dutch angle. In my Trek watch thru, I saved it for last and I finished on a great note.

I really despise modern TV writing's reliance on "character development" that is just soap opera bullshit and zingers
Give me high concept and plot driven kino any day of the week

I know in the current year we’re told it’s ok to be gay. It’s not

I watched the first episode and the writing was comically bad. It was about an alien that kills people because it needs to eat the salt in their bodies lmao. Imagine that, it can't find salt anywhere on the entire planet!

I love TNG and DS9 but they don't really capture the sense of adventure and discovery that TOS does. I think that's also why TMP is my favorite of the movies. It's a lot slower than the series, but it delivers on that front much more than the others and I actually appreciate how ponderous it is.

TV series: it's only three seasons, anon; watch it all. Broadcast order and don't skip the pilot.
Movies: again, watch them all.
In both cases, make your own decisions about what was good and what sucked.

the sense of adventure and discovery that TOS does

ah yes, like when they go on the cowboy planet, or the 1950s gangster planet, or the nazi planet...

at least that's 3x more storylines than one whole season of modern shows

Okay. And? Are we going to pretend other episodes don't exist because some goofy ones do? "A Piece of the Action" is pretty fun anyway.

You forgot the future Roman Empire one, also excellent

They truly are

they were going to make yeoman janet a major character on the show, kirks unofficial girlfriend. She appeared in many of the publicity photos made before the show aired. But the writers wanted kirk to be free every week to bang green chicks.

I miss Star Trek.

Love it. Its part of my 60s tv holy trinity alongside Outer Limits and Twilight Zone. Kirk is my favorite.

Shit most shows nowadays try to balance eight separate storylines in a single episode and fail

It’s nostalgic for me, more than any other Trek for sure and I’m a 90s baby

Yeah they are shockingly good. Shame about TNG movies.

I grew up on TNG and didn't see much TOS growing up. Going back and watching TOS was really refreshing. Sure it is very 60s, but it is somewhat timeless at the same time. I really should check out more episodes. I was doing a full watch through until Amzon lost the rights. Pretty sure I got the full seasons on a HD somewhere.

thanks to AI TOS will be back with the original cast and LLMs writing the scripts.

Sounds good to me, as long as they leave out the current partisan politics.

Who's LLM? Please GOD no RDMOORE.

Ok? That’s not a lot

The pilot is whack but it improves a lot by the second episode

The problem is that writers come up with barely enough story to fill out ten episodes, the problem with hyper-serialization is that it rushes the story too much to the next plot point without letting settings breathe or to deescalate stakes to show the different facets of characters
Honestly if you took a ten episode season and only have enough story threads for half of that, what you do is take a few episodes to let the seasonal arc go into the backseat - let some things develop lightly but once its time to pick up the pace it gets brought into the central focus

NOOO STOP GOING ON COOL ADVENTURES NOOO

The fifth season of Angel did this, albeit that had more episodes but even the most filler either had the end set up some piece of the larger arc until it was time to focus on that

the show always had budget constraints and the Desilu studio was in financial trouble and they had to make use of the costumes and sets they already had. Still those episodes were all pretty creative , piece of the action is a classic the cowboy episode is very watchable but I could do without the poor zaons are victims because they hate violence episode.

I love ENT for that reason, the first two seasons are mostly just the crew going on adventures and getting in and out of trouble.

TOS is comfy in a way few other shows can match. I enjoy the bright colours and how it's filmed like a play, you get lots of wide shots with everyone fully in frame

Of course man. Please get deep into golden era scifi pulp stories (not just PKDick short tales but mainly) and films... It's so great. I'm with you anon, keep the good feeding going on

Same here. Season 2 of ENT was so good. Hated when the show got so dark with the xindi plotlines

I love it a lot and older scifi in general but it will always bother me that it was literally created by Roddenberry with the intent of spreading left wing propaganda to teenage boys desperate for something similar to Flash Gordon. It really shines in some episodes (the one with the race war between two races of an alien species that have no difference beyond slight appearance differences), sticks out a bit in others (the black science man in that one episode, "United States of Africa") and thankfully isn't present in most of them, but it still bothers me.

Modern media has ADHD tier pacing, going back and rewatching X-Files reminded me of that. They weren't afraid of moody long shots because the audience was expected to pay attention and not be violently sperging out trying to watch a Subway Surfers clip at the same time.