I have shown this to people as their first. It works. It’s a highly unusual story so some people may or may not “get it” but there isn’t any issue with it being a first entree into the franchise.
Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek?
marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Darmok
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think it does a good job of showing the Star Trek approach to science fiction.
You have a human on the planet interacting with an unusual alien. There is some action, but the primary problem of the episode is not solved by violence. The audience is taken along with Picard in the process of figuring out communication with the alien captain.
Its main weakness is that you don’t get much ship-based stuff in this particular episode. There is a little, but…
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s got some good hooks too because once you watch it with someone you can run around saying “Shaka, when the walls fell,” and they will feel like they are now in on the joke.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
That’s a really interesting choice. Ok it’s in my top 3