best episodes for people who've never seen star trek?

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• Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Inner Light is a good choice. It demonstrates the “vibe” of TNG without relying heavily on any pre existing characters.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A friend got me to try an episode of Lower Decks and it felt so cynical to me. To explain why I wasn’t interested in watching more, we watched Darmok and Measure of a Man. Trek was very aspirational back then.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes! Especially “measures of a man”. Peak writing. If not the best episode of them all.

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• TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I introduced a friend with the first episode of Strange New Worlds. Then they binged TNG & VOY. More to come soon. ^^

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    My only complaints about Ep1 are that pike and sock discuss the classified DIS stuff in the hallway in front of the turbolift, and then Una and Pike talk about it in plain text in front of the bridge crew during the rescue completely unnecessarily.

    Both minor!

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• haywire7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a lot of episodes that only have impact of you are invested in the characters. Some are or self contained so could be worth a watch but it depends on the audience.

  If anyone that likes sci-fi asks me I always say DS9. It has plot arcs and characters that grow, also a few silly and not so good bits but it stands up.

  If they like that or like something similar like Stargate, seaquest, farscape or Sliders then we can find something for them, if they haven’t really tried sci-fi then you could do worse than strange new worlds within Trek or commit and try The Expanse for some modern sci-fi that kicks ass.

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• Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on what you are looking for. Trek does a lot of different things and can appeal to people in different ways.

  I like measure of a man and yesterday’s enterprise for TNG. Both work as examples of a lot of the best aspects of star trek, and come early enough to jump into the series while skipping the crap in season 1, at least until they know they like the show.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If the person isnt interested in scifi, its unlikely they will watch it, if they are, i would suggest DS9, VOYAGER, enterprise, and tng. i dont reccomend nutrek, because its under kurtzman its so bad.

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