I know there is watch guides, but I’m still in the struggle of choosing the next Star Trek serie to watch next. I was thinking in skipping Star Trek: Enterprise.
I wouldn’t sleep on Enterprise. Sure it starts off a bit lousy, but by the end you’ll be upset that it was cancelled.
I don’t think it’s as lousy as most people remember. Just that S1 can feel a bit of a letdown coming off of Voyager Season 7.
Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Lower Decks!
I second this. It’s basically just an extra TNG-era spinoff that fits really well after Voyager.
The first season is a bit rough (though you’ve got to watch it at least once - important info for the rest of the show’s plot) but then the show starts doing its characters really well and has a sincerity to it you wouldn’t expect from its genre.
When I first heard of the idea of an adult animated Star Trek comedy, I thought it was a terrible idea, but they executed it so darn well, and it’s my second favorite series behind DS9.
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Watching Enterprise (currently on season 3), I’m not sure I can blame you, despite the plot getting interesting.
Each 90s series has their fair share of “I want to put Rick Berman in my trunk and [redacted]” moments, but Enterprise takes it to a bit of a disgusting level.
Like, with 7 in Voyager, you learn to tune out the unnecessary catsuit after a while and just enjoy an otherwise good character, but they take the sexualization of T’Pol’s character to such extremes that it interferes with her just being a person on the show.
I’m watching ENT because I’m a sucker for canon, but I totally don’t blame you if you skip it.
I couldn’t get through Enterprise when it was first airing, and it remains the only Trek series I haven’t watched in its entirety. Tried to get through it again with my partner a bit ago, and we switched off after that first decon chamber scene. We aren’t prudes, but it’s just so skeevy.
The early decon scenes are comparatively mild, which is saying something… don’t Google Vulcan Neuropressure; I wouldn’t wish such horrors upon my worst enemy.
@usernamefactory I did manage to watch it all the way through, but I wouldn’t watch it again. Some of it is just too relentlessly horrific and it didn’t actually become interesting until the final few episodes before they cancelled it.
Star Trek Prodigy is the sequel to Voyager.
It’s not just for kids, although intended for a family audience.
I also enjoyed Prodigy, although I will warn the first half of season one is a little difficult to get through, but the rest of the series welds you to your seat!
Strange New Worlds is great! Since you’ve already seen DS9 and TNG that’d be my next pick for most enjoyment.
Discovery and Lower Decks are good too! But Picard doesn’t get my recommendation.
Watch order isn’t important. There’s a little crossover between Discovery and Strange New Worlds, but you there are only two details from Disco that carry into SNW, and those are recapped thoroughly in SNW.
There is a little interaction between SNW and Lower Decks
SNW / Lower Decks
There’s a great crossover episode in SNW season 2. It’s worth getting to know the Lower Decks characters first to get the most out of that episode.
There are three TOS episodes that are especially relevant to SNW from what I recall. The one I recommend watching is Balance of Terror.
SNW / TOS
SNW has lots of references to Pike’s “fate”, which you see in the TOS episode Glass Menagerie. It’s optional IMO. Btw Glass Menagerie includes a recut / retelling of the unaired pilot, which is my favorite episode of TOS. But the pilot doesn’t have the beep chair.
Season 1 has an homage to the TOS episode Balance of Terror. It will make more sense if you’ve seen that episode. And it’s one of the best TOS episodes.
Season 3 has an appearance from a character who first appeared in the TOS episode The Squire of Gothos. It might add some context. Also optional IMO.
Enterprise season 4 is pretty good. The augment 3-parter, the Vulcan 3-parter, and Terra Prime are all worth watching. The Mirror episodes are a guilty pleasure.
After Enterprise you an go for DIS season 1 and 2 only and then Strange New Worlds!
Add Lower Decks if you’re into cartoons.
