You HOOKED them...

[RobertScorpio]

Several times in my life I have convinced friends, relatives, to watch STAR TREK(s). Like when I got married. My wife had never seen TREK, so the first episode I showed her was HIS WAY from DS9. I knew she loved chic flicks, and that is TREK's all time best chic-flick like episode...she was hooked.

My nephew? I knew he was into gaming so I showed him Holo Pursuits (Barclay's first, and best episode ever) and he was hooked....

I love watching them watch an episode, and know that by the end of the episode, they will want more...

I had my niece watch THE WAY TO EDEN and I never saw her again...so it can have the opposite effect too..


When was time when you showed a newbie a TREK episode and you knew....YOU hooked them!!!

Rob

 

[TheJosmo]

I showed the TOS episode "Elan of Troius" to my eight-year-old stepbrother and nine-year-old sister. That episode was hilarious. They want me to play Star Trek games with them, and they even let me be Spock. My other siblings only got into Star Trek with the new movie, and can now sometimes understand what I'm talking about...sometimes.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I showed Insurrection (of all things) to my second cousin.

He loved it.

Then we saw a handful of TOS, season 1. He loved that, too. His favorite is "Charlie X". And he REALLY enjoyed the "mechanical rice picker" moment in "City on the Edge..."

 

[docrice]

I had my niece watch THE WAY TO EDEN and I never saw her again...

Yes, that episode has that effect on people. Good candidate for in-laws, I say.

 

[M.Robison]

Two years ago I met my wife (then girlfriend) at college. What made me introduce myself was the fact that she was reading a book of poems by Rumi. My life long love of Star Trek has over the years caused snickers from a few girls I dated and some had a mild like of the shows. 6 months after we started dating I came home one night to find that she had found my stash of star trek books, movies, models not to mention the uniform I still have from when I worked at the Experience in the 90'. The first thing she said was "Why in the hell didn't you tell me you like Trek? She was a fanatic about the show as I was soon to learn.

Two years later this last November we married, and have a 5 month old son. He normally doesn't pay any attention to the telly aside from the fact that we don't really expose him to it all that much, but he got on this bad fussy rant after his first immunizations and out of the blue I popped in a disk of TOS and he actually quit crying and "watched" it. Well...it stuck and any time the show is on he flips out literally. We have since moved on to TNG.

 

[Sector 7]

...and out of the blue I popped in a disk of TOS and he actually quit crying and "watched" it. Well...it stuck and any time the show is on he flips out literally. We have since moved on to TNG.

If TOS got him excited and watching, put in one of Picard's long-winded, preachy monologues when you want him to sleep.

 

[BorgLady]

I got my (at the time) nine year old brother hooked on Star Trek one day when I was babysitting him. I threw in Star Trek: First Contact while he was playing, thinking I could get some Trek in. My brother stopped playing to watch, and was enthralled with the Borg. I showed him a few Voyager episodes, including "Scorpion: Parts 1&2," "Dark Frontier," and of course "Caretaker" to help explain how Voyager ended up in the Delta Quadrant. He's a total Trekkie now, and even takes the book I bought him for his birthday- "Star Trek 101"- to school instead of his video games.

 

[milo bloom]

We had a friend in college that asked about Trek, I guess she was wanting to be a little more involved in our circle of Trekkie friends. We loaned her some taped episodes and some of my non-fiction books like the chronology and encyclopedia and she was instantly hooked.

Haven't really tried anybody else, we have a 2.5 year old now though, and as he gets older we'll be sure to get him into the series. He already watches Doctor Who with us, and various anime series including Clone Wars, so we're nerding him pretty good already.