Voyager fans.. are you disappointed about Discovery?

[Tracy Trek]

Sorry I must learn how to multi quote. I hate this three in a row look.. But I'm very stupid you know, can't work the Internet,lol..

Just highlight what you want to quote. Then underneath it will appear a small box with quote+ or reply. If you want multiple quotes from different posts, click on quote+ after each highlight. Then go to your reply box and there will be a place to click "insert these messages". They will appear and you can rearrange them by drag and drop. Then click quote these messages. Then type your comments between them.

If it's just a single quote you can use reply instead of quote+.

 

[BillJ]

Sweet. A few left behind like we are too stupid to keep up? Is that you are implying. Sometimes there are other considerations mate.

No, it is usually the stubborn that get left behind.

And I mentioned home video options in my post as well...

So it's either fans pay for it (CBS All-Access or a variety of home release options later on) or it simply doesn't get made.

 

[Refuge]

I refuse to believe I am stubborn..

 

[Refuge]

Just highlight what you want to quote. Then underneath it will appear a small box with quote+ or reply. If you want multiple quotes from different posts, click on quote+ after each highlight. Then go to your reply box and there will be a place to click "insert these messages". They will appear and you can rearrange them by drag and drop. Then click quote these messages. Then type your comments between them.

If it's just a single quote you can use reply instead of quote+.

Thank you Tracy you are very patient.

(I'm going to try out this multi-quote skill .. nothing will be spared =) )

 

[fireproof78]

At least you have a practical alternative to a situation where I for example am not being lazy or too stupid to know how to use the Internet. I simply do not have the funds and a reliable enough Internet speed where I live. I just have to weigh up whether it all will be worth it..

Which is what we all have to do.

Also, call the UN and see if that have people to train others on the Internet. Local libraries also can have classes that can provide some basic computer skills. Or, through 10 bucks at a local college student and they might be willing to teach you. I use to do that as a side job in college.

And was The Original series a rating success?

Nope.
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This isn't the 60s and Star Trek isn't an unknown quantity any more.

 

[Refuge]

I was just keeping the record straight. Apparently the decline of Star Trek has been tracked and is supposed to reflect viewer interest and producer creativity. Not sure why that is ignored in the context of the Original.

Do you think those classes you helpfully have suggested will help my remedial Internet speed and budget? Gosh thanks.

 

[Trekkin]

That'd be because TOS officially ended in 1996, and possibly restarted in 2009.

Because, you know...It did get fantastic ratings. It just did not on get them on the tv series first airing.

So I'm failing to see the comparison, unless someone has evidence that any of the TNG-ENT era series managed such a huge post-cancellation turnaround?

 

[Refuge]

Yeah right. The Original Series ended in 1996.. I believe you.

 

[Trekkin]

You're right. It was actually cancelled 1991.

Or still ongoing, depending on your POV.

Turns out the line between 'cancellation' and 'hiatus' can be pretty thin.

 

[Refuge]

I have no issue with respecting Star Trek in its first outing. I wasn't around then as a viewer so it is in its reruns it found a larger audience and to a point continues to do so. It spawned what came after it or at the very least inspired it. However in trying to understand why Discovery is based closer to the era of TOS one often reads about the ratings decline that apparently began around DS9 taking in Voyager and Enterprise. Not sure where Next Gen fits in. That ratings decline is based on the ratings of the first airings of these shows and lets not be ridiculously dismissive of those shows even in their first run. TNG, DS9 and Voyager all ran for seven seasons each. Even Enterprise ran four, one more than TOS. Using ratings as a yardstick has to cut both ways. If you say Discovery has to be based on an era that was trying to get it away from the ratings decline of DS9 onward, then it makes no sense to then align it with TOS because its ratings were not indicative of what was to come.

Once you start factoring in subsequent interest from ALL the shows and their re-runs then it gets harder to read. The platforms are everywhere, who gauges that fairly? I don't think saying Discovery had to be pre- 24th Century is based on statistics at all.

 

[Trekkin]

The owners still track the rerun ratings and the critical reception. Hence 'axed' series like X-files getting a renewal. They don't tell every internet flatfoot how, because that data collection and interpretation is a business in its own right. They release some of their info, but not all.

The TNG and post-era is apparently yet to prove itself as a likely future means of profit. Because if it was, we'd have it. That's all there is to it.

 

[BillJ]

I was just keeping the record straight. Apparently the decline of Star Trek has been tracked and is supposed to reflect viewer interest and producer creativity. Not sure why that is ignored in the context of the Original.

Because the original exploded in strip syndication in the 1970's. Giving a second life to the concept. Nothing Trek has had that kind of second life.

 

[Lynx]

Exactly! I love the era of 24th Century, the technology and the Delta quadrant.

Me too!

 

[Lynx]

Considering my dissapointment with another pre-TOS series and the fact that I do have all seasons of TOS, TNG, DS9 and the first three seasons of Voyager on DVD, I'm not so sure that I will waste much time on "Discovery".
Just the fact that the series has the same name as the ship in the horrible "Stargate Universe" is a bad sign.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Considering my dissapointment with another pre-TOS series and the fact that I do have all seasons of TOS, TNG, DS) and the first three seasons of Voyager on DVD, I'm not so sure that I will waste much time on "Discovery".
Just the fact that the series has the same name as the ship in the horrible "Stargate Universe" is a bad sign.

SGU's ship is the Destiny, not the Discovery.

Discovery was also the ship from 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[TommyR01D]

The reaction (well, anticipation) of Star Trek fans to Discovery reminds me of the same from Doctor Who fans towards Class last year.

 

[Trekkin]

I liked Class. It's might be the best spin off Doctor Who has managed to produce, reasonably low bar as that is.

So all hands forward for DIS, I guess.

 

[Refuge]

Torchwood had its moments..

 

[fireproof78]

Considering my dissapointment with another pre-TOS series and the fact that I do have all seasons of TOS, TNG, DS) and the first three seasons of Voyager on DVD, I'm not so sure that I will waste much time on "Discovery".
Just the fact that the series has the same name as the ship in the horrible "Stargate Universe" is a bad sign.

How does one have bearing on the other?

 

[Refuge]

I think it means that some people were hoping Discovery wasn't going to be pre-TOS.