I love having an entire live TV channel dedicated to re-runs of old Star Trek episodes

Ok so, I have a little Kodi setup which includes a live tv system hooked up to Pluto so I can grab a bunch of channels for free. Turns out, this includes not one, but two whole channels of just Star Trek!

The first one is mostly TNG and the original series, and the other one (“creatively” called More Star Trek) has mainly Voyager and Deep Space Nine. I like these because I don’t even have to think about what episode to watch, and can just enjoy some Star Trek!

The only downside to this is well, ads lol

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As long as the ads aren’t too crazy (I haven’t really watched much on Pluto). Sounds cool to be able to just throw on a random episode without having to decide which one. I often enjoy having one playing in the background while doing other things.

I don’t see it on Pluto Canada, though. Oh well.

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I actually don’t mind the Pluto ads. If you put Trek on in the background while working, I think you’ll find that they’re so repetitive yet non-annoying that you just mentally block them out.

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Eh the annoying thing about Pluto is they have like four commercials that repeat. It’s tedious to hear the same ad every time.

That said, it’s free, and commercial breaks are the same frequency and duration of ordinary cable TV.

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It’s pretty great. Our TV came with Pluto and there have been a handful of times where I’ll throw on the trek channel because my wife and I can’t figure out what to watch.

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I used to have channel that would only run Sci-fi shows on repeat without any breaks or ads.

Few of the shows that ran on it: ST:TNG, ST:DS9, ST:ENT, ST:VOY, ST:DIS, Stargate: SG1, Stargate:Atlantis, Stargate: Universe, Dark Matter, Expanse,

And they would go in cricles, like one episode of each show. Sometimes they would do a marathon and just play the entire show in few days. NON-STOP, NO-ADS Sci fi goodness. Best TV channel i ever had.

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Never heard of Dark Matter. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Here is another one I like but was not showing on that tv channel: Killjoys

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Cool! I will check it out.

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Pluto TV also has season one of TOS, TNG, and VOY as on demand. I’m hoping they’ll add more seasons and Star Trek series as on demand. It would be nice to revisit a particular episode whenever I want. I’ll often have one of the Star Trek live TV channels going to watch or as background noise. So far, I think Pluto TV’s amount of commercial breaks on the shows and movies I watch there is a tolerable trade off for being free to watch.

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ugh i gave it a shot and watched one of the Kelvin flicks on it, and it was interrupting it every 10-15 minutes to play the same commercial two or three times back to back. and the sound and video quality were pretty much unwatchable :(

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Video and sound quality out of Pluto, when I tried it, was beyond unusable. :(

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