A TV Episode That Contains Two Episodes Does Not Display Correctly

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I have Blu-ray discs of all episodes from the seven seasons on TV of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 1 starts off with one film that contains both Episode 1 and Episode 2. But after doing the “Scan Library Files”, Episode 1 shows up correctly, there is no Episode 2 (which is not a problem because Episode 2 is part of the first film). But thereafter, every episode displays the name and a Poster not from the given episode number, but from the next episode.

The naming of the first few files is as follows:

Star Trek - Season 01 - Star Trek - s01e01 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part 1.mkv

Star Trek - Season 01 - Star Trek - s01e03 - The Naked Now.mkv

Star Trek - Season 01 - Star Trek - s01e04 - Code of Honor.mkv

I tried giving the first episode the following filename:

Star Trek - Season 01 - Star Trek - s01e01-e02 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part I.mkv

but that made the presentation even worse.

Can someone please tell me how to correct this annoying issue?

Thank you very much.

Len Jacobson

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You are most likely defaulting to the TMDB order which has S01E01 - Encounter at Far Point and S01E02 - The Naked Now.

TVDB aired order has the episodes as S01E01 - Encounter at Far Point, S01E03 - The Naked Now.

Click on Star Trek: The Next Generation, click on the little pencil icon and select TVDB (aired) for episode ordering. I think that will fix things for you.

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Your file names/structure are like this, correct?

/tv
  /Star Trek The Next Generation (1987)
    /Season 01
      /Star Trek The Next Generation s01e01 Encounter at Farpoint.mkv
      /Star Trek The Next Generation s01e02 The Naked Now.mkv

If yes, then as @napolij mentions, edit the show (pencil icon) → Advanced → Episode Ordering = TMDB (Aired) or TVDB (DVD).

Plex pulls episode ordering from TMDB and TVDB. You can pick the ordering that matches your file structure.


TMDB: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1 (1987) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/series/star-trek-the-next-generation/seasons/dvd/1

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napolij,

Your suggestion was the answer I was hoping to get! Thank you so very much.

The episodes are now correctly numbered and titled. The only thing not 100% correct is that the first movie is labeled as “Episode 1”. I was hoping it would somehow indicate that it was “Episode 1 & 2” or something to that effect. But I am perfectly happy with what you suggested.

Again, thank you very much.

Len Jacobson

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Yeah, about the only tip-off is the length of the episode, 1 hr 30 min on my server. I think things get confusing because if I recall, that episode originally aired as a 2 hr special. Of course, in syndication, it is now split into a part 1 & part 2.
If I recall, you’ll run into this a few more times while populating later seasons as well as other Trek series as you add them.