With all the trek series' on amazon and netflix, minus STD, I have decided to challenge myself to watch it all in the most complicated fashion possible. By airdate, because I hate myself. Now, I was going to go onto a wiki and compile a viewing order list, but knowing the trek fandom, here it is. http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted_05.html?m=1 and yes, he has a separate list by stardate (which i have never understood). TOS and TAS are going to be easy, its not really until season 6 of TNG that I'm going to have to start flipping around every other episode or so, and season 6 of VOY is when it goes back to linear binging. yippie. And then I'd have to watch ENT. Wish me luck, everyone.
So the really advanced version of this is to copy each episode's original airdate by Month, Day, and Hour and watch it at that time in 2019.
My quick calculation tells me that watching 24 hours a day, that would take you just over a month. Reduce it to 8 hours per day and it takes you 3 months. 4 hours per day takes 6 months. And so on. How much free time do you have?
Wouldn't it make more sense to watch the shows by the in-universe timeline? Seems kinda dumb to be watching TNG and then interrupt it with The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country films. (Also not sure why "The Cage" gets shoehorned between TNG season one and two. Is it because the colour version was found and released on home video?!?)
Have you already watched them in the production order (which is different than air date in some cases)?
yeah, I've seen all of Trek. I want to do by airdate because I think getting a sense of how tng ds9 and voy would have had things going on at the same would be interesting, and its just a different way of watching trek.
It's not the VOY episodes i'm worried about, most of those are going to be intermixed with DS9 eps, Its going to be the combination of watching the last two seasons of VOY and the first 3 seasons of ENT straight.
I will give you going through that many hours is the sign of a true geek, if you do it. Hell, I love sailor moon but it would be hard to go through 200+ half hour episodes and the movies. It is not that I would not rewatch them, but I would start skipping around or doing other things after the end of the first season unless I was watching with someone. I like rewatching TNG and voyager randomly, and it is not like I won't sit through law and order episodes a billion times as background noise. But a dedicated watching in a specific order is not the same thing. May the force be with you.
Or you could watch everything exactly 53 years behind its original airdate, refuse to watch anything off of that schedule in order to faithfully recreate the experience of a first-run watcher, and hope that you live long enough to finish it...
The good news is that in July you could attempt it without pirating as Stars is getting an official release. Don't care for the new english VA cast, though. Saying that, I'm halfway through the first season of TOS, and I'm keeping a score card of trek tropes (Vazquez rocks, encountered a godlike being, ect.)
