I find that it's best only to introduce friends if they ask about it, or express some sort of interest.
I introduced my husband to Star Trek recently, because I told him I found it on Amazon Prime and was feeling nostalgic. He said "we could watch it together", and so we are near the end of The Next Generation season 2. He is enjoying it, though of course I never expect him to like it as much as he likes Star Wars. I got him into Harry Potter the same way: he now asks to rewatch the movies and has read all the books.
My sister-in-law constantly puts Star Trek down for some reason. She says she hates it, though I don't think she has ever really watched it. On Thanksgiving we were having a discussion about the upcoming Star Wars movie, and I said I still have reservations about JJ Abrams, particularly since I found the most recent Star Trek movie to "suck". She said "Well it sucked because it's Star Trek". I ignored that and moved on. I would never bother trying to "convert" her.
A few years ago, my sister tried to introduce myself and my husband to "Doctor Who". I wasn't really interested, since I had seen bits and pieces of Doctor Who stuff before and did not really care for it, but was willing to give it a chance (she said she picked out some of the "better" episodes of the show). The episodes we watched with her made me think "This is god-awful", and my husband felt the same way. We now constantly joke about how bad the show was.
If a friend whom had never seen Star Trek before and she knew that I liked it expressed interest, I would probably say something like "I have always liked this show. Would you like to come over and watch it with me?" I'd then ask her if she would prefer to start at the beginning of a series (as my husband wanted to do), or just watch some of the best episodes. If the latter, I would probably pick ones such as "Darmok", "Tapestry", "The Inner Light", etc. Either way I would almost certainly start with The Next Generation, since that is hands-down far and away the best quality Star Trek series. I would not go to a friend though whom I knew doesn't like Star Trek and say "I like this old tv show from the 90s, you should watch it too", unless she expressed interest at some point. That's just me though.
I introduced my husband to Star Trek recently, because I told him I found it on Amazon Prime and was feeling nostalgic. He said "we could watch it together", and so we are near the end of The Next Generation season 2. He is enjoying it, though of course I never expect him to like it as much as he likes Star Wars. I got him into Harry Potter the same way: he now asks to rewatch the movies and has read all the books.
My sister-in-law constantly puts Star Trek down for some reason. She says she hates it, though I don't think she has ever really watched it. On Thanksgiving we were having a discussion about the upcoming Star Wars movie, and I said I still have reservations about JJ Abrams, particularly since I found the most recent Star Trek movie to "suck". She said "Well it sucked because it's Star Trek". I ignored that and moved on. I would never bother trying to "convert" her.
A few years ago, my sister tried to introduce myself and my husband to "Doctor Who". I wasn't really interested, since I had seen bits and pieces of Doctor Who stuff before and did not really care for it, but was willing to give it a chance (she said she picked out some of the "better" episodes of the show). The episodes we watched with her made me think "This is god-awful", and my husband felt the same way. We now constantly joke about how bad the show was.
If a friend whom had never seen Star Trek before and she knew that I liked it expressed interest, I would probably say something like "I have always liked this show. Would you like to come over and watch it with me?" I'd then ask her if she would prefer to start at the beginning of a series (as my husband wanted to do), or just watch some of the best episodes. If the latter, I would probably pick ones such as "Darmok", "Tapestry", "The Inner Light", etc. Either way I would almost certainly start with The Next Generation, since that is hands-down far and away the best quality Star Trek series. I would not go to a friend though whom I knew doesn't like Star Trek and say "I like this old tv show from the 90s, you should watch it too", unless she expressed interest at some point. That's just me though.
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I love time-loop movies and therefore would watch any episode of a series that is about a time-loop, even though I have never seen anything else in this universum before. It was the first I watched from X-files, I think my brother once gave me a Supernatural one and espcially the Stargate episode "Window of opportunity" made me huge fan of the whole series.
And I also discovered that a few more were fans where I didn't even know about it. Whenever I started the topic I would get a "Yeah, me too" in response so it did seem to me indeed that basically everyone is a fan or has at least used to love it once in his life.
