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As asked at SpaceTigger's place, from your memory, approximately what has been your longest record for watching Star Trek without taking any major breaks? (How many hours? Or episodes/movies?) :dude:

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Interesting question. Because of the amount of time I put into my business, Its hard for me to do any type of marathon watching. However, I do recall watching 4 episodes of TOS in a row once when they were doing a marathon on TV. That would probably be the most I've ever watched in one sitting.

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I remember back when it was Trek's 25th anniversay, and as a special event they played the top 10 episodes. I watched the whole thing through.

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I remember 1 saturday watching about 11 episodes, it was a mix of tos, tng, voy and ent. It was a very good day.

 

EDIT:

And then 2 movies about 10 minutes later.

Edited by mowzer

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I've watched a few 10 - 12 hour marathons straight through a couple of times. Also when I first got my TNG and Enterprise season DVDs I would watch 2 or 3 disks back to back.

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If toilet breaks count, my personal record is 10 hours. that's hitting the pause button on the TiVo, and grabbing food along the way. I should note, it was winter time, we were snowed in, and I was off that day. So, it's not like I had anything pressing to do.

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I got into Star Trek when I was in high school, and my parents wouldn't let me watch TV on weekdays. At this time, TNN (as it was called then) was playing something like two TNG episodes a day, even more on Fridays, and Sci Fi was playing TOS episodes every day. Enterprise was fresh every week, and if I was lucky, there was a channel that would sometimes play Voyager (if it wasn't preempted for a Spurs game). So I would record about four to five VHS tapes worth of Star Trek and watch them all weekend. Oh, those were good times.

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when I was watching all of DS9 on DVD, I watched about 8 episodes a day (on free days). I'd say that was my longest stretch that I can think of unless I had one day when i just watched Trek.

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I couldn't put an actual number to it and be sure it was correct but back before I founded STF and before all of the series were on DVD I made a concerted effort to find and download as many episodes as I could. I didn't watch every episode as soon as I downloaded it though, but when I got all of DS9 completed I decided to start with episode 1 and watch them all through to completion.

 

I remember being on vacation from work for a week and just watching the whole series, I don't remember if I completed all 7 seasons in that week but in that time I'd watch from the time I got up until I went to bed with short breaks to get something to eat or shower or whatever. So I would guess it would be somewhere between 15 or 16 hours in a row each day for a week.

 

That was around 2001 or 2002. Since then I'll pull out the DVD's and watch a disc at a time, sometimes 2 discs a day when I'm in the mood and have the time. A lot of times I'll pop a disc in the DVD player and have it on while I'm doing other things but only half paying attention.

 

Before any of that, back in the 90's when Sci-Fi or TNN would do a marathon I'd watch all of those. Sometimes it might be 8 episodes or sometimes 10.

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curious, would it be possible for someone to watch seven seasons in a week? That's a season a day for DS9 :laugh:

If I'm not mistaken there's 176 episodes of DS9, each episode is roughly 45 minutes on DVD I believe so that works out to about 132 hours. There's 168 hours in a full 7 day week, so it'd be possible but that would only leave about 5 hours per day to sleep or do anything else.

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If I'm not mistaken there's 176 episodes of DS9, each episode is roughly 45 minutes on DVD I believe so that works out to about 132 hours. There's 168 hours in a full 7 day week, so it'd be possible but that would only leave about 5 hours per day to sleep or do anything else.

 

In other words, piece of cake!

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Well, it has been a couple of years.

 

It only seems fair to answer my own question. LOL.

 

I've been know to occasionally have Star Trek "marathons," watching one episode after another. When I'm sick I usually watch Trek. Approximately nine or ten months ago I had a three-day marathon because of the flu. That was the last time, minus the new movie, that I watched Trek.

 

At the present, though, I'm starting to watch two VOY episodes per day. When I finish I'll either take a break from Trek or watch TNG.

 

VOY starts out a little dry. But it will kick up soon. However, it really takes off with the introduction of Seven of Nine. I would say, for the most part, that it is an underrated series.

 

 

 

As I said, once in a while I might drop by. And this is one of those times. I guess watching Trek has given me a sort of surge to post on the message board. I even, already, took a note or two watching the VOY episodes, just like old times! Maybe I'll post the trivia question or two in the future.

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Im not sure I could count the hours but doing my DS9 catch up (and my Voyager rewatch) I did watch quite a lot in a day. Though I didn't manage to get through all of Voyager in a week like above, nor DS9.

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