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I personally love DS9 and think that it has aged better than TNG. I think its S1 is not amazing, but certainly one of the better first seasons. It has plenty of good enough episodes that don’t depend heavily on the upcoming plot and leave your brother in a good place if he wants to start watching for himself.

A few suggestions would be:

• In The Hands of the Prophets: Overall an almost prophetic episode, in the most terrifying way possible. A well-done drama episode with great political commentary. A lot of the season built up to it, but it’s such an early period in the show that it’s not TOO much context
• Dax: A full helping of everything Trek, from alien trials to crew collaboration to space mysteries. It basically explains the Dax thing for you, just leaving an interesting story. Vortex: Odo-focused, but also has some “crew on space mystery” bits. Also makes a mystery of core information in the show, meaning minimal canon dependency and once again leaving your brother in a good place to watch.
• Duet: Strong Kira episode that’s also a good summary of the Bajoran-Cardassian conflict.
• Captive Pursuit: I think it’s a solid, typical Trek episode. I think the only impression issues it might give are it’s very O’Brien-centric, and it might register a bit on the “aliens who represent no particular real life ethnicity but are still kind of iffy”-o-meter. But otherwise, it’s a low-canon, medium-quality episode.

Holes and crap! Measure of a Man might be genius. Intellectually engaging, good acting, but boring (no offense) enough that other parts of the show can impress as well!

I disagree. I think the Dominion War context is way too important.

I kind of feel like Prodigy struggles the first half of the first season… as a Prodigy lover, I’ll say it certainly gets there, but even then, let’s say it wasn’t until season 2 that Jankom Pog no longer made me want to find out what Tellarite carnitas taste like…

Did you compress with JPEG? Also, did you grab from the Blu-Rays, or just from the P+ web viewer?

Because Paramount is sadistic and limits those to 360p.

I believe Trelane is seen an Andorian by most suffering the delusion. I can’t tell if they still see him as such after the illusion is broken, but that may add to the confusion and prevent Spock from recognizing him.

Also, this moment was awkward and notable for Spock, but not so traumatic that he’d have Trelane’s voice and mannerisms flashbubled in to the extent he could recognize Trelane several years later, especially considering on the Enterprise, you’re encountering an all-powerful being every month or so. It’s probably hard to remember, “this one’s childish” or “this one’s feisty.”

Now the big question is… why couldn’t Trelane cause a mass delusion to make people play soldiers or something when they come across him in TOS? It’s possible that similar to how the continuum can limit Q or Q2, they limit Trelane.

Which leads me to a theory… if as implied in Picard, the Q aren’t entirely linear, what if this makes it possible for Trelane and Q2 to be the same person? The father over shoulder for all eternity thing certainly matches up.

Although, I do think it’s a bit too early for Memory Alpha to go declare Q is Trelane’s father.

Let’s just say my district learned their lesson…

Reminds me of an incident in high school where a student accidentally sent an e-mail to the entire school district, and people started replying, spamming up my inbox.

If I’m paying five figures, that Miranda better have explosives in it for true authenticity!

Wow, that looks freakishly like Jack Quaid. Reminds me of this resemblance:

Not OC, by the way. Just relevant fan art that I know of.

The purple-haired one (who apparently is called Tongo Rad) kind of looks like a Boimler.

Unfortunately, he’s canonically not human, but if he were, it would have been really funny to have a throwaway line about Boimler’s great-great grandfather being “in a weird cult of space hippies searching for Eden or something.”