LD s3e6 “Hear All, Trust Nothing”
I have The Orville on my list as my next show to watch. Or does that not count?
The Orville really deserves more praise. It was a great show and I hate that it’s still kinda in limbo.
It’s a good watch, but what I like about 90’s Trek, TNG, DS9, Voyager, is that you don’t even really need to watch them. You can listen to them.
Orville is just so much better visually and has visual gags, and I can’t recall them that well… yet.
Personally finished TNG like a month ago, then went through Voyager and now am on DS9
Yup, 90’s trek’s been my background “tv” for decades.
Can get on with much else at the same time.
It’ll keep a trekie going.
At least, once you get adjusted to it being like-trek but not-trek.
I find it helps to just remind yourself, maybe at least a couple times an episode, “it’s not written well”, and then once you accept that, you can relax and enjoy it easier.
After I thought I couldn’t care less about Star Wars anymore, I was recommended Maul - Shadow Lord and I only can forward this recommendation so far. It’s a well crafted crime show made in the gorgeous Star Wars animated series art style with an impressive titular character during the transitional period from Republic to Empire.
I second this. We just finished it and it was spectacular. I’m already looking forward to watching it again but with headphones so I can enjoy the sound effects 100%.
Thanks for the tip. I do enjoy that style and I’m assuming he’s still voiced by Sam Witwer?
Your assumption is correct.
I am about to finish a TNG watch through, and am planning on watching Babylon 5 (which I haven’t seen yet)
Oh gosh yes!
Good call!
And may as well do the movies and spin-off series too. [Edit: Oh, and the 2023 movie too! I forgot that’s a thing.]
and in timeline chronological order too
(as an llm suggested)…
The Babylon 5 universe primarily consists of the original television series Babylon 5 (1994–1998), its prequel film Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993), and the spin-off series Crusade (1999). The franchise also includes several direct-to-video films that bridge narrative gaps, such as In the Beginning (1998), Thirdspace (1998), A Call to Arms (1999), The River of Souls (1998), and The Legend of the Rangers (2002).
Additionally, the universe was expanded with an animated feature-length film, Babylon 5: The Road Home, released in August 2023. Creator J. Michael Straczynski announced plans for a reboot of the series in September 2021 in conjunction with Warner Bros. Television, though no new live-action series has premiered as of May 2026.
To view the franchise in chronological order within the universe’s timeline:
- In the Beginning (2245–2248)
- Babylon 5: The Gathering (2257)
- Babylon 5 Seasons 1–4 (2258–2261)
- Thirdspace (2261)
- Babylon 5 Season 5 (2262)
- The River of Souls (2263)
- The Legend of the Rangers (2265)
- A Call to Arms (2266)
- Crusade Season 1 (2267)
I must admit that I belong in the same boat. Outside of a couple stray episodes seen when it was airing plus the myriad of references, I don’t know it.
Some of B5 is becoming more and more relevant today. There’s a lot more set reuse than on Star Trek, and the special effects don’t always hold up today (it was first gen CGI), but the scripts and the performances were first class.
Yes! Fun fact the FX on the first few episodes were animated on a Commodore Amiga. Models exist and you can still render some of the space station / space ship scenes on an emulator today!
I’m finishing B5. Watching it is like prophecy of today but written in the 90s.
I’ve seen maybe 2 full episodes, and that was when it first aired live, so have no memory of it.
Muscle through the first season, or even watch a recap. It has a near TNG level of growing pains, but it picks up insanely well after that.
True. Good advice.
Much of the real gold’s in the last season, but you’ve got to earn it.
Ah, thanks for the tip. I started the first season and it just seemed… insufficient.
“muscling” through 90’s television is a bit different than 2020 television when there’s like 6 episodes to a season
Soon I’ll be 2 seasons behind on For All Mankind and I’m thinking about a rewatch of some or all of DS9 instead.
Or Farscape, I think I’m overdue for a Farscape run.
I think I’ll rewatch lower decks.
How many rewatch the original btw? I kinda consider myself a trekkie, but I still haven’t even watched the original show and movies.
Also I’m putting off Outlander, Daredevil Reborn, From and others for now. Just rewatching DS9 and other 80’s-90’s trek.
Did a full runthrough of TOS last year, as there were a handful I’d not seen. Definitely a product of its time, in both budget and sensibility (progressive though it was). View them like a stage play or podcast series. It helps.
The first film is pretty, but dull. The others are more fun.
1 & 5 may be my faves. (I know. I’m in a minority with that.)
1’s still less dull and faster paced than 2001.
Thanks. I’ve been mostly listening to the 80’s 90’s Trek as well, because I’ve seen it so many times. Maybe I’ll try that with the original as well, even though I haven’t seen it.
Surprisingly, I’ve stumbled into re-watching Scorpion.
Better, more fun, than I had remembered.
… Still watching 2-7 DS9 episodes each night too though.
<insert the “why not both” meme>
After getting access to my dad’s P+ account I finally decided to try out this nuTrek stuff. Before that, I was able to watch the first couple seasons of Discovery, a couple episodes of Lower Decks and some SNW.
I watched the final season of Disco…it was straight trash.
I watched most, if not all of SNW…it’s pretty serviceable but I found it very try-hard sometimes and can’t really balance quips and humor. It’s def the best of the bunch.
I tried watching 3 full episodes of Lower Decks back-to-back-to-back…the most it got was 1 smirk. The humor fell flat, it felt very forced and borderlined on slapstick. I knew this going in but even with an open mind I genuinely could not enjoy it.
Season 1 of Lower Decks missed the mark and tried too hard to be bog standard “Adult Animated Comedy” but it really improved in the following seasons. And not even so much because it became much funnier, but because they actually toned down the comedy a bit and pivoted into making it a decent Star Trek show on its own. Most of the comedy after that sorta centered around teasing about Star Trek tropes and poking fun at some of Old Trek’s more goofy episodes.
I think it was S2 where I started with the LD marathon.
