YJ02
Well Known GateFan
True, and even then, the stories in TV Trek never relied on the movies to fill in the blanks. The series shows were not used to explain stuff left out intentionally from the movies.
all can be watched in a stand alone type way
you can do the same with just about every movie but if you really want to know the whole story then one can always watch everything made and even read the source material if it exists
its like me with LOTR's --which of course i read before even the Bakshi movies came out. i was not content with the story as presented in the 3 books, i wanted more,so i read all of the material tolkien wrote to get the complete picture
but it is entirely up to the reader/viewer-take things as presented and be content, or read/view on further