Lol after a miserable morning I have totally cheered myself up. Someone I know from an old fandom sent me a random message going “Do you watch Trek? Do you like it?” And I sent back a probably far too enthusiastic several paragraphs detailing the various shows and explaining what I thought the best ‘intro’ was.

I mean all Trek is worth watching, if nothing else but for the lore (well maybe could pretend season 3 and 4 of Enterprise were a fever dream that doesn’t exist) but I think some Trek is best watched with a certain mentality/approach.

Like TOS. I watch it, I like it, but for a brand new Trek viewer I would say maybe don’t start here. For a modern viewer I don’t think it would grab people. Go back and watch it with appreciation when you are a fan, but become a fan with something else you know?

(You may disagree, I could be wrong, just my feeling)

Anyway in the end I gave Voyager as my ultimate rec for starting with Trek because it’s a “classic Trek” and so it doesn’t have the shine of the newer Trek but it’s not as old as TOS or as rough as season 1 of TNG. Plus it’s the quickest way to get to Seven 😛

For new Trek I said Strange New Worlds was probably best. Discovery is amazing and I love it but it has its rough spots and has improved as time has gone on.

Anyway then when they are hooked they can go watch all the things.

With Discovery I always remember the utter rage I felt when Culber was killed. I actually quit the show mid-episode. I never do that. But I was just like “nope I am out”. They only enticed me back when they brought him back and then I fell in love with the Pike direction in season 2 and that got me back into Discovery. But I am hesitant to rec it as a first watch due to that. It requires some pre-warning first imo

@Purlturtle

See to me, from the beginning, it didn’t feel like Trek, because of the character dynamics. In all other Treks until then, the crew could always depend on each other. It was always them all together against whatever the challenge of the week was. It took me a while to pinpoint what bothered me about Discovery, and it was that, most of all. I was also incredible pissed off by them killing off Philippa right at the end of the pilot; I had not anticipated that and it gutted me.

Yeah I think that’s why the show got better as time goes on because there is bonding. I mean at the end of season two the crew launch themselves into the unknown, only having each other, out of loyalty and desire to do the right thing (aka core Trek) so yeah I agree totally.