I thought I’ve watched a lot of Trek … I’ve seen all of TNG, VOY, half of TOS, a few episodes of DS9, DISCO, and currently watching SNW Season 2 … and I’ve seen most of the movies
According to this Comic Book Resources …
Every single television series, both currently airing and retired, totals up to around 48,700 minutes, which is approximately 812 hours or 33.8 days. Every series and movie combined totals 837.5 hours, meaning it will take 34.9 days to watch them all uninterrupted.
https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-every-tv-episode-movie/#how-many-hours-of-star-trek-are-there
and that’s not counting the films, nor the 20-50x you’d have to rewatch it all to have the near-encyclopedic knowledge of all of it we all here do, nor the decades that would take…
let alone doing all of that while not going completely insane…. mwahahahaha!
Sometimes I think that’s why people claim they don’t like the new shows. They just can’t put in the time it takes to get the same level of engagement wit it.
I also think that’s the best part of a lot of the new shows. You can watch them on a casual level, but when we do bring a near encyclopedic knowledge of it all, well, we’re watching kind of a different show. Like in Picard when he’s holding that flute and it’s like ‘well shit, I guess I know where this is going’. Like, not to put too fine a point on it, but new fans are watching the show. We have a complete set of tamarian meme subtitles going the whole time ‘Picard, his flute in his hands’. I think that’s really cool.
On the flipside of that, there’s a lot about (some) of the new shows that doesn’t make me want to rewatch them dozens and dozens of times in their entirety over decades. And who knows, maybe I’ll feel differently about it later, and think about it differently in retrospect. 
I would love to see an old age home for Trek fans in 20, 30, 40 years from now … a bunch of old trekkies, geeks and nerds all hobbling around or in wheelchairs talking to each other about all the shows, aliens, ships, worlds and characters they all watched for decades … and all the care workers left wondering if their patients are out of their minds or the nurses just don’t know enough about the shows that are being talked about … and that one patient who has decided he’s a Gorn and keeps wanting to pick up big objects to throw at people.
You’re already here
What’s that sonny?
I’m old enough to know that time does weird things. But yeah, I get what you mean, and I don’t really disagree.
I hated enterprise when it first came out. Now I love it. So who knows?
I don’t like earlt Discovery because it feels wrong in ways that make me wonder if it wasn’t originally a non Star Trek project that got adapted and they killed the captainI liked (not that asshole). I haven’t cracked into Picard yet though.
I’ve seen all of TOS, TNG (including the movies for both), DS9, about half of VOY (working through it right now), the first…3? seasons of DIS, one episode of PIC, all of LDs, SNW, and Pro, and the three Kelvinverse movies. So I feel like I’m closing in pretty well.
That said, I’m surprised that there are 900 episodes and nearly 840 hours. Considering most of those episodes would be about 40–45 minutes, and a decent chunk are half that length. How can it be more than 675 hours. Unless I’m missing something, either the OP is a severe understatement, or the CBR article is a severe overestimate.
That said, I’m surprised that there are 900 episodes and nearly 840 hours. Considering most of those episodes would be about 40–45 minutes, and a decent chunk are half that length. How can it be more than 675 hours. Unless I’m missing something, either the OP is a severe understatement, or the CBR article is a severe overestimate.
One thing you might be missing is that commercial breaks used to be shorter back in the day, so TOS episodes are 50 minutes long.
That’s very interesting, I didn’t know that.
But it still only brings us up to 750 hours even if all 900 episodes of Trek were 50 minutes, from TOS through the TNG era and the three animated shows.
Is the “900 episodes” figure counting two-parters as one episode or two?
Great question. One would hope it counts them as 2, but who knows.
There aren’t that many two-parters anyway, are there? I can’t imagine it would make up the difference.
There aren’t that many two-parters anyway, are there? I can’t imagine it would make up the difference.
My thought was that the extra few minutes of TOS episodes, the added time of two-parters counting as one, and maybe another factor or two we haven’t thought of yet would add up to account for it.
It’s all good. Jump in where you feel comfortable. Don’t feel compelled to slog through an episode that doesn’t jive. And if you dislike anything we like, you will feel our wrath.
The One Piece of Scifi
Yeah, but you should really only watch like 900 of them.
watched tng, ds9, voyager, tos, picard and lower decks in like a year, didn’t watch anime in that time tho
didn’t watch anime in that time tho
You poor soul. How did you survive? Can you teach us your ways?
painkillers and booze
No anime? How much weight did you lose?
none, I never ate during anime and my habits didn’t change
I watched 899 of them at least one time (decided to skip the musical episode of SNW)
You better fix that grave mistake asap!
Nope 😜
Don’t worry, it gets good after the first 2 to 3 … hundred hours. Just stick with it!
I recently started watching tng and I’m absolutely amazed at how good it is. People say the first two seasons are rough but I’m loving it. I did skip 2 or 3 episodes recome to skip though
My trick is to watch shows like that while working out (elliptical, stationary bike, calisthenics when I’m at home…) this way it doesn’t eat at my normal schedule.
Yeah, someone here the other day said they were ashamed they hadn’t seen TOS yet. That’s not something to be ashamed about. People have lives to live.
Almost caught up! I’m on discovery right now and I still need to watch TAS and a couple of the movies. I’m almost theeere
Not counting the movies and episodes you find yourself watching on loop… forever.
I’m on TOS… Season 2. Still considering if the animated series is worth watching or I should skip them
The animated series are great! (Lower decks is my favorite of all Star Trek).
TOS is… not. While it was great in the 1960s, most of it hasn’t aged very well. Feel free to skip TOS and start from TNG.
I am actually enjoying TOS. Its true that they are not quite as good as they were when they came out out but I still love the acting, the scenes and the music. It almost looks like a theater show!
Also recognizing all the memes is good fun
The animated series are great!
TOS is… not.
So which category does TAS fall into? (Or did you forget about that one?)
TAS is not bad, I actually think there are some episodes that feel more timeless in it, but definitely not necessary. TNG is an overall better series than both TOS and TAS, so I would hold off on the animated until your just looking for more star trek content.
