Unpopular opinion but I think it would be a good thing for "Mass Effect" to be introduced to wider a

There are (or were I can't keep up with Hollywood anymore) rumors that Amazon is or was wanting to do a live action Mass Effect and/or a Dragon Age TV show.

The sad truth is that for all the promos about exploration in the Mass Effect Trilogy, the games aren't really about exploration (oh they are lines of dialogues and the codex entries on the various planets you scan but that is about it) but at the core of the MET it's a sci-fi war story and that any exploration is done through the lens of how to defeat the Reapers. I mean that is the only major plot in ME3 is to win the war against the Reapers. A lot of it's "real" science is about as real as Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and every other sci-fi franchise in other words not real or the very least not practical or is just theory.

As to your last question: It could but not overnight.
Now can it some small way inspire people to reach for the stars by getting into STEAM, supporting space programs or just being better people? Maybe/yes.

Amazon will do the same thing they have done with Ring of Powwer. A TV Show that has the name Mass Effect in it, but has nothing to do with the actual Lore of Mass Effect

I wouldn't mind Shepard being in a Mass Effect TV show. A Mass Effect TV show does not have to be in the same continuity as the games or the various tie-in media (like comics or novels). It would not take away from my personal experience playing and replaying the games, because the games are their own thing and a TV show or a movie could never capture what makes that special anyway, and a show/movie should be its own thing and be aimed at a bigger audience than just people who've already played the games (which would be a limited audience).

No, that always makes things worse.

My feeling is sure, why not? Such things are not geared toward the fanbase anyways. The Witcher, Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, and the new LOTR's deviate quite a bit from source material but have been successful to one extent or another. Yeah, some of the fans piss and moan but hey, that's what fans do. Movie and TV adaptations are for non-fans that are actually hyped up by the base. Personally I separate myself from the books (or games) and just enjoy (or not) the production as presented. If someone did a Shepard adaptation I'd just view it as their take on events. I'm good with that.

I would go slower and give a lot of screen time to finding the Prothean ruins first. It would be like any scifi show basically, no need to know any lore beforehand. It's always problematic for wider audiences if there is any vital lore reviewed too quickly in the beginning. 

If you are asking about a show, that actually covers the events of the game, than my answer is: Please don't! The games tell this story in an audio-visual form already. They are pretty dam perfect and I don't need it to be re-told with different actors and voices (and without the choices).

If you are suggesting a live action show, set in the ME universe but doing its own thing, than my answer is: Yes, please!!!
I already made a post back in the day, on how I'd want such a show to look like. But it's just one of many possible ideas of what could be done.

Ok, this is certainly an opinion. Not sure it is shared by many people, maybe just the two that liked this post. All fantasy is "bullshit", in that it is a made-up story. Calling the lore of LotR bullshit is a pretty massive claim that I frankly can only laugh at, so I'll leave that alone. ME lore is not perfect, and there are inconsistencies, but I feel it is good enough for what it is. Those are my opinions on this opinion. This is your opinion, and you are generalizing it assuming that many people, even most, agree with you. I think you are wrong, very wrong, but again... That's an opinion. This is your truth! Speak it! I completely disagree with your entire post, but that's ok right?

The guy that insists Captain Pike must end up in a wheelchair, but also thinks canon is dumb.

Houston? Are you there?

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this guy, and he is a walking bag of contradictions. Is an Atheist, which I also am, which put me off initially because I expect more honest argumentation from an atheist.

His position, from what I gathered listening to him go on and on making windy long-winded thoughts, was that canon doesn't matter to him unless it is really important to him, and then that should be important to you too and is beyond canon in importance. You should feel like he feels, because he's so reasonable and thoughtful.

I need a shower. Read up on the guy, not a lot of class with Steve.

If you are making a reboot or a re-imagining or whatever, sure, go nuts. As fr as I am concerned, this is akin to creating a new IP anyway. But within that new version, stay consistent.

In general if you are making something that is supposed to belong into a universe that is already established, you better adhere to what is already established. Otherwise, the whole point of being in that universe becomes irrelevant. Consistency in a fictional universe, no matter which genre, is IMO the cornerstone of good story telling.

The inner consistency of reality (as Tolkien called it) is an important part of story telling, especially in scenarios which are rather far removed from our own reality (such as fantasy or scifi). Those universes already require a certain amount of suspension of disbelief but at least by keeping the inner consistency as intact as possible you allow the audience/readers to trust in the logic of the events you are telling a story about. If you loose that trust, your audience may come to expect just anything to happen anyway and that makes any kind of suspense so much more difficult to achieve. If anything can happen at any time, nothing really means much, does it?

That's why I think that within a fictional universe, respect of canon is a very high priority. As much as I love its characters and story arcs, my greatest point of criticism of the Mass Effect franchise is that starting with ME2, they weren't respectful to their own established lore at all.