Star Trek

I have an offline raspberry pi hooked up to my tv that just plays Futurama. There is no controller, no ability to switch episodes, it just continues playing randomly. If you turn on the TV it will just be in the middle of a random futurama episode.

I've finally ripped all my original Trek DVD/Blu-Rays and am going to make a second one for Trek.

The only choice I'll have to make then is input 1 for Futurama or input 2 for Trek!

I find the PlutoTV app to also be much more user-friendly and reliable than Paramount Plus. I would rather be able to have everything on demand and pay Paramount, but the Paramount Plus app is so buggy on my Smart TV and on Kodi that I've given up.

The last straw was when I was actually contemplating writing a script to automatically restart Kodi because of how often Paramount Plus dies on Kodi.

I agree with you that it's nice in a way not even having to think about what to watch next. If something really bad comes on, like that pretty racist TNG episode from season 1 or the Voyage lizard episode, it's a lot easier to just switch from the Star Trek to the More Trek channel, or vice versa, and be done with it.

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.

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.

BellMedia has the licence for all things Star Trek in Canada.

So all the classic series are the weekday after school and evening reruns on CTV Sci-fi Channel, not free and still with ads.

We have all of it recording on our PVR constantly. Otherwise we have to subscribe to Crave and that’s not really the fit for us. Besides, there are several shows we like that are on the cable channel and not available on streaming.

PlutoTV works well though in the app on iPhones and iPads here. Not too many ads as yet, fewer it seems as compared to other free apps like CBC Gem etc.

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.

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.

Check out dizqueTV. You can make as many Star Trek channels as you want. I have one for each series, and 2 that run a playlist of my favorite episodes ever.

I used to run a plugin on my Kodi that would make TV-style channels based on the original airing channel, complete with EPG and everything.

However, it wouldn't let you add lists of shows and create channels that way. I never got around to making my version, but perhaps someone else has done the work since then.

I use DisqueTV on my Plex Server to do this.

The iPhone app is fine for me. I haven’t tried loading it into our smart TV.

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