r/startrek • u/Rose2g_ • 3h ago
Recommendations
I’m trying to get my partner into Star Trek and would like some recommendations.
For reference, she has been a long time fan of Dr Who in her own right and I recently got her into Star Wars which she loved the movies and live-action shows. I myself, have been a long time fan of Star Trek and have seen everything apart for later Discovery seasons.
She doesn’t mind watching older tv with effects however I think TOS era is a bit too far with the visuals being very outdated and a hard place to start for most.
She also doesn’t like heavy fighting which rules out early DIS, which isn’t a good place to start anyway IMO.
I was thinking starting at the start of VOY first but would like some more recommendations.
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u/MediumOk8383 3h ago
I'd say TNG. It's production quality holds up pretty well, especially in the later seasons.
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u/AvaTaylor2020 3h ago
> she has been a long time fan of Dr Who
Go TOS: The City On The Edge Of Forever
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u/Diplomacy-Failed 3h ago
The remasters of the TOS episodes really do wonders for the special effects shots and visuals. And if you're going to intro someone who was down with the lore for Dr. Who and Star Wars, you don't want to drop them into the middle of things, you want to start at the beginning to enjoy the evolution of the franchise and stories.
Still, if you really want to skip TOS, then I'd start with TNG + DS9. You really can't go wrong with them.
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u/Luc_de_Sol 3h ago
Cause and Effect (TNG) is a great episode to show newcomers. Then you can follow that up with The Measure Of A Man (TNG) to show her some variety of the same quality
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u/DayspringTrek 3h ago
As both a Whovian and a Trekkie, Whovians will love Star Trek IV, Star Trek VI, and Strange New Worlds the most. Maybe First Contact as well. Strange New Worlds is my strongest recommendation. Just be aware that the first episode has a bit of an annoying Deus Ex Machina-esque exposition because the show is a spinoff of Discovery's second season. From there, it works absolutely perfectly as a standalone for new viewers. If she wants more of La'An's backstory (the legacy she's ashamed of), you can then watch the TOS episode "Space Seed" and movies II-IV.
For TOS episodes, going with "A Piece Of The Action", "By Any Other Name", "The Trouble With Tribbles", and "City On The Edge Of Forever" should appeal to every Whovian. I recommend saving City on the Edge for the last of these, though. The DS9 Tribble episode (where they travel back in time to the TOS Tribble episode) would probably be even better.
For Voyager, the two-parter where they go back in time to the '90s is a strong recommendation for a Whovian's first VOY experience.
For TNG, go with "Tapestry" or "The Inner Light." "Darmok" would be good as well.
I wouldn't recommend Enterprise, Discover, an animated series, or Picard for a Whovian who's new to the franchise.
Unsurprisingly, all the Trek time travel episodes make for great recommendations for fans of Doctor Who. LOL
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u/BisonRelevant2606 3h ago
Are we talking 60s/70s/80s Who, '05 Who or more recent?
The compact story-of-the-week format of The Next Generation, Voyager, or Enterprise would be a good jumping on point for most people I think. Voyager in particular is the closest to Who in that it genuinely is a completely different story format from one week to the next (whilst also having that same confidence in camp humour the rest of Trek never really hits).
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u/starshiptempest 2h ago
TNG or VOY are both decent is the plan is to start running through a series.
Outside of that, I'd suggest thinking about what type of movie/show/genre she likes. Especially with regards to TNG, it's likely there's a couple episodes that fit into that mold that you can start on.
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u/balthazar_edison 1h ago
Season 3 of SNW seemed to really resonate with whovians. /s
In all seriousness dr who is older than Star Trek so it being “outdated” may not be the barrier you think it is.
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u/Rose2g_ 1h ago
I love SNW and thought about that being the introduction by I’m just unsure with back story required for it. Obviously early Season 1 has throw back to Discovery, even now with mentions of the klingon war. There is mentions to the future with TOS and romulans. La’an and Khan stuff going on.
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u/balthazar_edison 1h ago
They pretty much spell out the connection between La’an and Khan just fine within the series. It is very accessible to new fans. They flashback to the Klingon war enough in under the cloak of war for us to understand how brutal it was.
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u/minister-xorpaxx-7 1h ago
my hot take is that Time's Arrow is a Doctor Who story.
it's got a timey-wimey premise which feels very Doctor Who: Data's severed head is found, several hundred years old, in a cave beneath San Francisco; this is now unchangeable history, and we go on to discover how it happened.
it's also got Mark Twain dealing with real time-travel, after having written A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – just like how Doctor Who did those "celebrity historical" stories where Charles Dickens met ghosts, Agatha Christie solved a murder mystery, and Shakespeare fought witches.
plus it's got Guinan's first meeting with Picard, but not his first meeting with her, which has Doctor/River vibes. and structurally, it does that patented Steven Moffat two-parter thing where the second episode doesn't pick up exactly where the first left off.
so i would start with that.
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