Star Trek Fans Need To Watch These Shows

Once upon a time, Star Trek was known as a relatively serious sci-fi franchise with occasional dips into silliness. However, recent shows like Star Trek: Lower Decks have helped this franchise find its silly side. And if you like it when your sci-fi can go from silly to serious and back again at a moment’s notice, you really need to watch Doctor Who.

We’d recommend starting with the 2005 series, though Classic Who has more than a few things for fans of Star Trek: The Original Series to enjoy. But modern Who is more characterized by big stories, bigger characters, and an ever-growing mythology that stretches back for the better part of a century.

Plus, if you get a kick out of Star Trek’s “technobabble,” it’s hard not to laugh when the Doctor Who writers give up on providing a scientific explanation in favor of cutesy phrases like “wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”