Alt text: Image of an abnormally tall phone screen with an enormous received text message. Caption reads: POV: My friend after finally asking me “where to start” watching Star Trek.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        16·
        5 months ago

        My opinion is that a person with zero Star Trek knowledge in 2024 would be the most comfortable with Strange New Worlds. Its very approachable and has a young adult character useful for exposition (beyond also being a great character) when needed so new audiences can learn about the world.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 months ago

        I love me some TNG, but I’m imaging sitting down today, having never seen Star Trek, and for the first time in 2024 and watching “Encounter at Farpoint”. I don’t think that would go over well.

      • Teal@lemm.ee
        3·
        5 months ago

        That’s where I started too just a few years ago. I’ve since watched DS9, Voyager, Picard, Strange New Worlds, The Lower Decks and Discovery. I haven’t watched The Animated Series yet and I’ve watched random episodes of The Original Series but it’s not one I’ve had the urge to watch straight through.

        These shows can become addictive. :)

    • Phoenixz
      14·
      5 months ago

      You hate your friends?

      Nah, maybe snw isn’t as bad as the rest of the nu trek drek, everyone keeps saying so, but the same was said ad-nausea about discovery, prodigy, lower decks, Picard, and those god awful pew pew nu movies…

      Maybe snw isn’t so bad but seriously, start at TOS, or remastered TNG if you want something that looks a bit more current. TNG and DS9 are top tier star trek

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 months ago

        Maybe snw isn’t so bad but seriously, start at TOS, or remastered

        Are you old like me? Are you assuming young eyes see TOS with as much forgiveness for its time as we do? I like TOS, but its absolutely influenced by the day it was made it in both social order as well as production values. Those of the 1960s don’t immediately resonate with younger audiences today.

        • Phoenixz
          11·
          5 months ago

          That’s why I said TNG and DS9 after that…

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 months ago

            Yeah that doesn’t help your argument . TNG’s “Encounter at Farpoint” came out in 1987, that’s 37 years ago if you’re keeping track. It shows too. I know it doesn’t seem like it to our old eyes, but it just doesn’t measure up today. DS9 came out in 1993 just 6 years later making it 31 years old, so only a minor improvement for those audiences.

            Imagine a younger person (than us) that finished watching “The Expanse” and sat down to watch precocious Wesley Crusher being berated by Piccard for pressing buttons on the command chair arm, and Troy walking in with a short skirted uniform while everyone else wears long pants. Storytelling has evolved. Societal norms have evolved. Production values have evolved. Expecting a show (especially one about the future) to not even reflect representation of today is too big of an ask for a new audience that isn’t specifically seeking out a show that reflects the 1980s or 90s aesthetic and society.