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best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? (toast.ooo)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At the same time, Yesterday's Enterprise needs some context. It doesn't work quite as well in a vacuum.

Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn't exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.

Plus it's also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The context is important, but all that needs to be said is that she is a main character that died in the first season. It's actually the firsted episode with Tasha that I saw when Istarted TNG and how I've introduced others to the show. There's no details needed, no history, just the knowledge that she is dead.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Beyond Tasha, I’d say there’s a lot of nuance in Yesterday’s Enterprise that calls for more context. You can’t know how wrong the wartime setting feels if you have basically no exposure to the uncorrupted timeline. A new viewer can certainly get by, but it’s a much better episode if you have some experience with the show already.

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