I was raised in the church of Star Trek. After all, TOS started the year I was in sixth grade, a perfect time for enthusiasms of all sorts. I watched the movies then rejoiced when new Scriptures were revealed, TNG, DS-9, all the rest.
But then I became apostate when the lure of Babylon 5 caught me. By the third season I’d left my origins behind and converted to my new faith. I’m happy with it.
But I still have great respect and fondness for what I was raised on.
The Boxing Thing Episode and the security guy being a drunk turned me off the B5 and I watched it sporadically. What became of the first Commander of the station?
He by and large disappears from the show, except in maybe two or three more episodes down the line. He does well for himself, gets a diplomatic post on Minbar.
I thought he was dead or in hyper space or something, delivering ghostly prophetic messages and stuff. 
Go here and follow along.
My post regarding Sinclair was accurate if not particularly illuminating so as to avoid spoilers.
There’s a lot of thread there…a lot of B5 thread! 
So, just like Minbari prophesy. 
Nothing was as good as these guys in concert.
I will not click that link.
I want that as a T-shirt!
So far the consensus seems to be tie them to chairs and watch TOS, and that watching Babylon 5 won’t help them with their Star Trek knowledge.
I probably could have guessed the second part.
My apologies, I was confusing episode titles. OG does indeed fellate.
Here is my list:
The Man Trap
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
Mudd’s Women
What are Little Girls Made of?
Dagger of the Mind
Balance of Terror
Galileo Seven
Arena
The Return of the Archons
Space Seed
A Taste of Armageddon
This Side of Paradise
The Devil In the Dark
The City on the Edge of Forever
Operation: Annihilate!
Amok Time
Mirror Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
I, Mudd
Journey to Babel
The Deadly Years
Obsession
The Trouble with Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
The Enterprise Incident
Day of the Dove
Elann of Troyius
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays
I concur. That list hits all the goodies and avoids the victims of Sturgeon’s Law.
I’m personally in favour of having them watch the series in their shooting order, as our Lord and Master Gene Roddenberry intended, not the order NBC broadcast them in. But they must watch every episode of TOS, the good and the bad, in order to truly appreciate the brilliance of the good stuff. If TV isn’t a big thing around your house, maybe shoot for an episode per week, as that will give them time to digest everything and you’ll have a chance to engage them in some discussion.
After that, I’d go straight to Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Voyage Home before introducing TNG. For TNG, I’d simply show them “Encounter At Farpoint” so they understand what a giant pile of suckitude that series was in comparison to the original. Beyond that, they should hopefully be interested enough to move on from there on their own. 
Live Long and Prosper
The lead aliens in Alternative are ringers for that homeless guy in the alley downtown, except for not having a shopping cart filled with rags and empty soda cans - though his little spaceship might qualify. It is blessed by an incomprehensible plot and the worst camerawork in the series. I’ve seen a claim that the original script made some kind of sense, but they had run out of money by that time, but I’m not sure I believe it. It also has the worst science howler of the series. It just demonstrates that not all first season shows are good.
Assignment Earth, on the other hand, has a young Teri Garr and a hot pussy.
All right, I’ll be an apostate and say you should pick your five or ten favorite episodes and just show them those. THEN see if they want to go on. You’ll either hook them or you won’t; no duct tape needed, and you won’t get in trouble with Child Welfare. I would show them what are, to me, the best of the best:
Space Seed
This Side of Paradise
The Devil in the Dark
The City on the Edge of Forever
Amok Time
Mirror Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
The Trouble with Tribbles
The Ultimate Computer
Our boys have seen some ST and have liked it well enough, but not gone gaga for it. Such is life.
Now we are cooking with gas.
The honor is to serve.
