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.
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.
Lol … the rebellious alternative teen in the 90s was often a Trekkie that lived in an alternate reality.
The modern rebellious alternative teen is now probably someone who refuses to join their parents fanbase.
It’s probably not that they don’t like Star Trek … it’s probably like they just want to do something without their parents. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you, they just want to do something different.
But what do I know … I don’t even have kids. But I do have about 30 nieces and nephews, and about the same number of grand nieces and nephews who have given me enough experience to know that teenagers are a weird bunch … and when you think about it, we all were at one point.
Give it time, you never know. Our kid isn’t super into any of it but did latch onto Twilight Zone and then like TOS soon after. She wasn’t ever huge into star wars either. I have yet to introduce her to the rest of trek. I’m running out of time before she’s in college lol
Might just be kids being kids. If the parents like it it’s by default dusty and not cool. Eventually they come around, at least I did on quite a few things I found lethally boring as a kid.
While it is easily the best show of any genre to be produced in a long time, I’m not sure how anyone that doesn’t know trek can get full enjoyment out of it, let alone 2/3 of the jokes.
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.
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.
Lol … the rebellious alternative teen in the 90s was often a Trekkie that lived in an alternate reality.
The modern rebellious alternative teen is now probably someone who refuses to join their parents fanbase.
It’s probably not that they don’t like Star Trek … it’s probably like they just want to do something without their parents. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you, they just want to do something different.
But what do I know … I don’t even have kids. But I do have about 30 nieces and nephews, and about the same number of grand nieces and nephews who have given me enough experience to know that teenagers are a weird bunch … and when you think about it, we all were at one point.
Give it time, you never know. Our kid isn’t super into any of it but did latch onto Twilight Zone and then like TOS soon after. She wasn’t ever huge into star wars either. I have yet to introduce her to the rest of trek. I’m running out of time before she’s in college lol
How old is she? Because Encounter at Farpoint isn’t exactly an episode that would hook the average kid.
That’s not the only thing we showed her, that was just an example.
Might just be kids being kids. If the parents like it it’s by default dusty and not cool. Eventually they come around, at least I did on quite a few things I found lethally boring as a kid.
She loves cult movies and I introduced her to those, so I don’t think it’s rebellion. Sci-fi just isn’t her thing.
How did Lower Decks go over?
While it is easily the best show of any genre to be produced in a long time, I’m not sure how anyone that doesn’t know trek can get full enjoyment out of it, let alone 2/3 of the jokes.
She really doesn’t like sci-fi. I’ve stopped trying.
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.