Old timer here. It’s easy to be a completionist when you do it over decades.
Just watched them all as they came out for the most part, after starting somewhere mid season one of TOS. With the reruns, I was soon caught up.
But I always argue strongly that whatever show grabs someone most is the best place to start for them. There’s no ‘best’ way and some of the shows reach different demographics better or worse.
Our teenage kids have never made it through every episode of TOS or Enterprise, and balk at DS9. Each has watched every episode of at least one of the newer shows, but not the same ones. But they find different ones more interesting as they mature.
But I always argue strongly that whatever show grabs someone most is the best place to start for them. There’s no ‘best’ way and some of the shows reach different demographics better or worse.
I don’t disagree at all. In fact, I think TOS is probably pretty hard to sit through for a lot of people, not just your teenagers, but plenty of adults who grew up after TNG and more modern-looking shows existed. TNG suffers from 80sness here and there, but the look is unusual enough to not feel ridiculously dated, but TOS, as much as I love it, does not have that going for it. Special effects on a TV budget just wouldn’t have been enough in the 60s.
And I’m sure that a lot of people would be fine these days starting with something like SNW, but like I said, you could probably start pretty much anywhere. The only exceptions I would make are Picard and LD, both of which do rely on a lot of lore knowledge to really enjoy.
Also, Prodigy is such an incredibly good introduction to virtually all major Star Trek concepts that it’s a great place for anyone to start.
Longtime fans keep putting forward the inference, based on their knowledge of the franchise, that Lower Decks won’t work for those who don’t get the references.
But the data keeps squashing that hypothesis.
There is a significant group of younger millennials and Zs that got into the franchise via Lower Decks. They’re the target market of viewers of ‘adult animated comedy’ and the format/media rather than the Easter eggs are the hook for them.
On other platforms, you hear a lot from them, as well as from Trek fans who say they got their housemates, BF/GF or siblings into the franchise by watching Lower Decks with them.
If the show weren’t limited to a platform that’s otherwise offering little for their niche, it would have had more success. But Paramount+ just doesn’t have enough in that niche to make it worth subscribing to for them.
This movie probably gotta be better without any connection to Section 31 or Trek. With her as a lead and with such trailer, I can’t see it as anything but a EEATO-but-in-Star Trek. That can be fun, but not in the right way imho.
And finally the LD announcement. I’m guilty of googling if I overslept its release at least a couple of times. Now, with Spiral\Uzumaki in September and LD in October, this autumn is packed with cool animation.
Really enjoying the tone that SNW has really made it’s own. I can’t wait for this next season.
Also this can’t be last season of Lower Decks it’s so good, fingers crossed for some sort of spin off. Don’t want this to be the end of this animated universe.
I had watched it. It was funny but breaks established Vulcan traits. They are violently emotional but contain it with meditation/training to strictly follow logic. The ‘logic is innate to their biology’ flies in the face of canon. Didn’t see a date anywhere either.
Edit: I’m hoping the full episode explains it better
Sorry, I’m already learning STA, because that’s the one with a Lower Decks supplement!
Planning to do a one-shot for next First Contact Day, where, to learn about children ahead of her motherhood, Suzie Plakson’s Q sends a group of Academy cadets (my players) back in time to the Vulcan ship that detects Zephram Cochrane’s flight. On-board, the Vulcans are indisposed, due to a group Pon Farr, so the cadets have to work together to defeat a Gorn time traveler that is there to prevent the founding of the Federation, and the events that lead to what they see as the end of Gorn society
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