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Honestly, if you started from scratch nothing you see in season one applies.
Just... assume everything reboots after but they keep the lore. It'll be fine.
In season 1 Riker doesn't have a beard, which is your first clue it's a holodeck simulation.
It surprised me on a recent rewatch how much of season one endured. I was going to use the spoiler tag but I'm not sure how it works and I don't want to wreck someone's experience, so I'll say shortly: episodes 6, 9, 11, 13, and 15 all have something about them that is important to the series as a whole.
Thanks, you talked me back into sticking with it from the beginning. I'd wonder what I missed if I skipped a whole season or two, I think.
A lot. People here keep mentioning "Q Who?" as important. It very much is, to the entire franchise, not just TNG. And in the end, when Picard is musing aloud over what happened, it'll be your first opportunity to consider that Q might have done them a favor in his way and is more complex than you thought.
I saw some people say to start with Season 3, but it felt weird. Should I just skip Season 1?
I'd agree with the other comment as well. The first two seasons are bumpy but they build a lot.
Skipping them, even where they're rough, does you a disservice in the long run. It's well worth the trouble.
I'd say no, but muscle through it even if it's not clicking.
Frankly, there are great episodes in the first two seasons, it just hadn't fully hit a groove where you can just watch it and at least expect it to be ok to good (or hilarious) every time. The hatred for the first seasons is overhyped.
But yeah, a lot of the creaky joints, be it Picard being weirdly hostile and disengaged from the action, Q being weird and grating and Wesley being mishandled do go away eventually.
When I first started TNG I just looked up a list of the best episodes from season 1 and 2 and watched those then went straight to season 3. After I finished the show and loved it, I went back and rewatched seasons 1 and 2 fully. So that's a good option if you just wanna get to the good stuff quicker, and each episode is (for the most part) it's own self contained episode so you don't miss much by skipping parts of seasons 1 and 2 IMO as long as you watch the good episodes.
I'm on break at work so I don't have time to find the list I used but sure you can find something easily with a Google search or someone else here might recommend the best episodes of those seasons.