If you don’t want to use the full viewing guide… Skip episode 1 of TNG.
I watched all of TNG with my girlfriend at the time. If it was up to episode 1 to convince us to watch, we’d have dropped it instantly. She refused to watch anything past the 20 minutes mark or something and just left, leaving me to watch the rest of the first episode alone, and tbh I don’t blame her. I had to insist that we watched the rest of the show and even researched the online reaction to the first episode to show her that this was an outlier.
We ended up loving TNG, all of it, even the stinkers, except for the first episode.
If you don’t want to use the full viewing guide… Skip episode 1 of TNG.
I watched all of TNG with my girlfriend at the time. If it was up to episode 1 to convince us to watch, we’d have dropped it instantly. She refused to watch anything past the 20 minutes mark or something and just left, leaving me to watch the rest of the first episode alone, and tbh I don’t blame her. I had to insist that we watched the rest of the show and even researched the online reaction to the first episode to show her that this was an outlier.
We ended up loving TNG, all of it, even the stinkers, except for the first episode.