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I watched TNG through fully with my daughter when she was 12, one episode most nights. She's nearly 17 now and absolutely shocked that I can send her banger Star Trek memes daily.
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I wish I could get my daughter into Star Trek. She's not interested in any of it. She doesn't even like science fiction that much. I don't get it. She came from two devoted Trekkies. We have a standup Mr. Spock in the hallway on the wall. We have a delta on the living room wall. We have a Spock tree topper and an Amok Time ornament. And I can't get her to watch a single episode of any of it. We tried Encounter at Farpoint a couple of years ago and she didn't even make it through the first half.
Encounter at Farpoint probably isn’t the place to start.
We tend to assume our kids will get into it the same way we did, but different generations respond differently.
Our kids are fans, but they like the franchise on their own terms. We started them with the TAS DVD set, after priming them with Odd Squad. They loved it.
When they hit school age, I tried them on a curated set of TNG episodes. Didn’t really stick, but Voyager they adored. By high school they’d tried most of it but would only watch the occasional episode of DS9 or Enterprise. They watched the early seasons of Discovery with enthusiasm even though I had to fast forward through some scenes.
In high school, their interest fell off as they explored other fandoms, but they’ve come back to it on their own terms. And their favourite shows at the moment aren’t ones that I would ever have predicted.