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[jrprongs]

Okay, so I have a confession that I never thought I'd make: I have a deep, abiding (and possibly unholy) love for the new Star Trek movie.  I'm about a generation too young to have watched TOS when it was new, and it seems like whenever I see reruns of it, there's about a 50% chance of Tribbles, but I've never really gotten into the first Trek that

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[eaterofnoodles]

You and I will have to talk about DS9! Speaking as someone who has seen every episode of every series (except Enterprise, which I and most other hard-core Trekkies have decided doesn't count), most of them multiple times, I have to say that I consider DS9 the best-crafted, darkest, wittiest, and most involving of all the series. And I say this as someone who would willingly carry Patrick Stewart's babies.

I hear your objections to TOS; having grown up on it, all the schmaltzy soft-lit closeups and Kirk's speaking pattern strike me as adorable eccentricities rather than annoyances. However, if you want to see more TOS without too much of the above, try the following episodes:

1) Amok Time -- Spock goes emotionally bonkers. Great show for the Kirk/Spock friendship. (Also, This Side of Paradise, in which we get to see Spock freely in love.)
2) The City on the Edge of Forever -- a little bit of a Kirk lovey episode, but so well done you mightn't be annoyed by it!
3) Arena -- there's a lot of Kirk talking, but he's smart and resourceful in this one, not just brawny.
4) Mirror, Mirror -- you get to see the original Uhura being pretty spunky, too.

[jrprongs]

4) Yeah, she pulled a knife on Sulu and threatened the whole bridge (and is so badass that none of the guys tried to jump her or wrestle the knife away as she backed into the transporter).

As for DS9, I think I might've just been the wrong age-bracket at the time. I really wasn't into the darker bits and the action wasn't actiony enough at the time. Being about a decade older now, I would probably get a lot more out of it.