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i had a hard time watching ToS
I mostly went by this https://imgur.io/a/XwHGU
just finished up, Day of the Dove and it was a pleasant surprise. What makes ToS good to watch all the way through, even the dumpy episodes, is the aesthetic. I know it's hard for us 80s/90s+++ crowd to fathom but there was nothing on tv back then except westerns and shitty variety shows, as far as the eyes could see and as much as they could bleed. ToS was their Toy Story/Star Wars. This was a time when playing super heroes and space men was considered beneath an actor of calibur, to a degree...its because of Shatners and Adam Wests that their devotion to the role, sparked what we now have today...and there is more trek to chew on then there is flavors in most ice cream parlors.
I always found the plots to be rock solid even compared to sci-fi today considering that it wasn't really a trope in the late golden age.
All trek is good trek. Except whatever jar jar abrams did.
I like those too, sorry.
That's unacceptable.
I have a buddy born in the 70s and he seethes the curses of JJ up and down if you mention that version of treks. I think his core issue is with the violence, the transformer-esque boom bastic nature of it all. It is decisively not within the realm of a vision you'd see out of the creator, roddenbery.
if it was called something else? those movies would be baller. its just he kind of threw a trek shirt over his obnoxious director style and went to town on an established universe.
It's 2 fast 2 trek. The show's byline is "to boldly go" and one of the movies literally takes place right around earth, and THAT is the one with Khan! It's sad and pathetic cash grabs.
Have you heard of Star Trek Continues? It's a fan-made production that meticulously re-created the look of TOS to "complete the five-year mission."