I think Encounter at Farpoint is important for that hopeful view of the future that OP is looking for. It establishes what the Federation is as a power in the Alpha Quadrant, and also gives a nice basic moral hurdle for them to overcome. Plus, seeing Q's first appearance is kinda necessary imo
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So, to run this, you would get Eyes Unclouded on DMs Guild, and then join the Patreon for the prep? Or is there a way to buy your prep a la carte?
That doesn't mean it's not still a real motivation
I'm not crazy! I could have sworn there were way less features than I'd read about lol
You did a great job! When I read "cow-detangler," I was sure it was the real Onion. I love their dumb Interviewee names
I left them out of my comment, because I thought it might be too adult, but I think Christopher Paolini's Fractalverse is about the same level as Long Way, so I'm going to recommend that as well! Pretty standard scifi plot (though I haven't finished it yet, so maybe it gets shaken up in later books), but with some really interesting elements of transhumanism, like AR bio-implants, and giant genetically engineered brains for piloting FTL ships
Definitely check out Skyward and all the related books from Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson! I'm a big Sanderson fan, but I like Skyward especially, for it's surprising depth, and unique setting
Important details from that link
The U.S. House of Representatives' maximum number of seats has been limited to 435, capped at that number by the Reapportionment Act of 1929—except for a temporary (1959–1962) increase to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union
So, as long as the population hasn't increased since 1929, everyone is getting appropriate representation lol
Farside was being submissive and breedable before it was cool
It's especially problematic now that all children are girls!
Did you also watch Seth Meyers try them?
I agree with the others saying start with TNG season 1. Just know, some of the episodes are rough. They took a little while to find their feet. Check episode ratings on review sites, if you want to avoid the bad ones.
I've recently started getting a friend into Trek myself. They're more into DS9, because they've been seeing memes about the Bell Riots, so we've been taking it slow on the other series. We decided to do a Best Of for TNG to begin with. So far, we watched episodes 1 and 2, Encounter at Farpoint, as well as episode 12, Datalore. Then we skipped straight to season 2, and watched episodes 3, 8, 9, 16, and 21. We also watched episode 16, Samaritan Snare, but only because it's relevant to Star Trek: Lower Decks lol