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“Who Watches the Watchers” is self-contained but you can also show someone “The Drumhead” after they’ve seen it. Beyond that also being a good episode for newbies as suggested elsewhere in these threads, the callbacks to “Who Watches the Watchers” nicely illustrate how threads from one story can keep affecting and enriching the show’s universe.
“Darmok” is so far the only Trek episode I’ve shown my spouse, because she wanted to know what the deal was with a t-shirt I had with that episode’s famous line on it. It did the job, she seemed to get into it despite being only vaguely familiar with the show.
Another bonus of showing them “Corbomite” first is that they won’t be wondering what the hell the deal is with that freaky face thing at the end of the closing credits when watching other episodes.
Thank you! This is the link OP should have posted.
Not to mention the secret society of highly-trained weavers who have made his toupees for 70 years.
All spoilers are to be posted and discussed in French.
Remember that stretch of a dozen years or so during which Paramount cancelled every Trek TV series?
There’s also Una McCormack’s excellent Star Trek Picard prequel novel ‘The Last Best Hope.’
Three decades later Trek is just now deciding to openly troll the Babylon 5 fans, and I’m here for it.
Every single Star Trek series from TNG onward struggled in the beginning and took a season or two to really find itself. It’s basically the shape of TV Trek.
Quark and Otto on a mountain for 1 hour.
I would 100% watch a spinoff starring Armin Shimerman and Alfred Molina as Quark and Otto Octavius, just hanging out on a mountain and chatting for an hour.
Enterprise isn’t Star Trek, confirmed! (I kid, I kid.)
I just fast-forward through all that parts that aren’t Captain Quantum Leap complaining that cheese makes his dog fart or feeding cheese to his dog anyway.
A person of culture, I see! 🍃 ▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️▶️🅿️
Fancy meeting you here, old pal!
I was always a bit sad that we couldn’t get more of Majel’s Number One back in the day, I considered that the main missed opportunity of the original pilot, and SNW has really paid off in that respect as well.
I didn’t know Majel in real life, of course, but based on all she shared over the years in her work and her speaking publicly about it all I think she would have approved of what SNW is doing with her roles.
This ship may have been a diplomacy vessel, or it may be a “some dude we know needs a chill ride from A to B” vessel built for panache and not speed. Maybe it’s a space limo.
She is really good. I loved TOS, I loved other things Majel did, but I never thought before this show I’d actually be taking the Nurse Chapel character seriously.
The laugh-track-less bits in late-stage MASH.
This article doesn’t “explain” much, it just repeats the tiny scraps of info clear in the few seconds the ship spends on-screen.
It also refers to it as “the Kelcie Marie” a couple times.
I didn’t like the JJ movies, but I did love Karl Urban’s take on Bones. He fully understood the assignment.
On the big wall of TVs at Cyberdelia, the nightclub from Hackers.