DSC Season 5, LD Season 5, SNW Season 3.... GIVE IT TO ME NOW

You have already rewatched VOY, DS9 and TNG more than seven times, right?

Lower Decks, Enterprise, Picard, TOS, The Animated Series, The Orville? So many treks to watch!
- Where the fuck did Galaxy Quest go?
I started watching DS9 for the first time couple of months ago. It is very good but visuals are quite dated (just finished season 1).
- DS9 camera people had a real hardon for Vaseline.
- Woah slow down there, a season a year is pushing it but a season every few months? You're crazy!
Somewhat. I've never completed a full watch through of DS9 but I've seen the other two countless times.
- Right, hand over your fan card. DS9 is unmissable
- Well, DS9 it is then. I know it's hard to survive the first two seasons, but it'll be worth it.
- I’m convinced that many people don’t appreciate DS9 until their 30s.
  Cool that the 90s shows each seem to appeal to different demographics even though they were all in theory designed for mass audiences ( unlike in the current streaming era).
  The problem seems to be that a lot of younger fans that get into Voyager & TNG, just cringe at DS9 or find it boring. Once they’ve had that experience they’re hard to convince to give it a fresh shot when they’re older.
- I think many of us feel that DS9 is one of those shows where each season is an improvement on the one before it. So it starts out pretty mundane at best with some terrible episodes, but by the final season it's pretty incredible.
Not in that particular order, no

Serious question; have you watched For All Mankind?

Nah. I can't watch alternate period pieces like that, Man in the High Castle and even Inglorious Bastards. My brain cannot cope with history being different for some reason and I start getting really uncomfortable and stressed out/anxious. The sensory issues that I've gotten from my autism are the dumbest things possible.
However I haven't seen the final season of the Expanse. So considering starting that up again... That being said I also have never seen Stargate, Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica. So not like I have a shortage of sci-fi at the moment.
- My two-cent hot-takes on that list of shows:
  Stargate: For the time, it did the Trek format incredibly well if not better. First season was rough, but oddly found its feet when SciFi took over (weird, right?) Good characters, great villains, fantastic arcs. The show "ends" multiple times, with the last few seasons being less than fan favorites. That said, if you love the characters by the end you may find yourself putting up with late season plot devices. Atlantis is good too, but shorter with slightly less compelling plot hooks. The short-lived SGU sequel/spinoff is has this man-v-man flavor not unlike DSC season 1, but doesn't stand on its own lore-wise.
  Babylon 5: The even more grounded DS9. But like the oft-compared Trek series, the production values are a 1990's time-capsule, which (today) has a kind of charm to it. The story arcs center around diplomacy, subterfuge, spycraft, and interstellar war, all told in a universe that is delightfully consistent and charts its own territory. Characters play off each other incredibly well once the series gets going.
  Galactica: I'm going to assume you mean the reboot. This is a gripping serial epic with very few filler and bottle episodes. Characters grow and evolve, allegiances change, motivations shift, ethics are challenged, and whole personalities get re-written. You can slap "space opera" on the box and be correct, but you can't describe more than two character arcs without filling your mouth with crazy nonsense. Yet somehow, it all works brilliantly and draws you in over and over again. It stands apart from the source material, but has lots of nods and references to the original so that the old farts in the audience are enthused.
  ( The original BSG is a hot mess of amazing-for-the-time effects, cool characters, great concepts, and bad studio interference. Best enjoyed using mind-altering substances because that's clearly what the writers were doing)
- My brother in Christ...
  WATCH STARGATE!
  It is probably the most well-rounded sci-fi ever made. Very good characters, very funny, and the budget kept getting bigger with each season. (Probably should've stopped after season 8, the whole Ori plot feels tacked on - it's still pretty solid, though.)
  There are a lot of familiar actors throughout the series, including some from Trek.
  You don't need to watch the original MGM movie, it's technically set in a different universe. But it is fun. And the events of this movie are explained in the series as needed.
  Do make sure you watch the R-rated version of the series pilot (Stargate started off on HBO)
  And don't forget to watch the two TV movies set after the end of the series. One is okay, the other is excellent.
  ....When you're done with that, then you can watch Stargate Atlantis which has even better characters!
- I really liked Babylon 5, I'll say it gets REALLY good around season four. Season five is a little bit less good but it isn't bad
  For the final season of the Expanse, I'll try not to spoil anything but I'll say that Covid has once again given me a reason to despise it for what it did to the ending
- Definitely watch Stargate, then. Start with the '94 movie.
- I feel the same way but I never really thought about it.
  It's also why I don't like musicals. I can't just cut into singing (do they know they're singing? Is it like that buffy episode?)
Joel Kinnamen in his Punished Snake old man makeup looks great. Can't wait for the next episodes.
- LOL! Fuck, you're right. He looks like Big Boss. I will never unsee it now.

I was like this when Stargate was in it's hay day

This meme really says how I feel.

I was just continuing my risa-inspired rewatch of DS9 last night, and it made me think of you all here.

I think its been a really long time since my last watch through, and the upside is that a lot of it feels fresh again, even though I know the characters and the general trajectory of the plot. I think I like this show even more already.

I’m in season 2 and just a few episodes back was “Cardassians,” wherein a Cardassian orphan living on the planet as a Bajoran sets the scene for Garak to flex all over the fucking place.

Me with lower decks... Lol.

This is a big part of why I don't start watching a show until it's complete.

You forgot Enterprise Season 5?

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