Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"

[Romulan_spy]

I'm very curious about the demographics of Star Trek fans. Are there many who didn't watch TNG or DS9 as a child or teen, now being mid-30s or older? You can see how that would favour a push to a more nostalgia-based community. Star Wars, ont he other hand, picked up a lot of younger fans with the prequel movies.

I am 44. Started watching TNG as a child. That is probably why this season has a special meaning for me and why I love it so much. TNG was my first Trek. I was hooked when I first saw the Ent-D in the intro. I watched every Trek series since. My grandfather was a huge TOS fan so I did watch TOS with him.

 

[BBC 2 6pm]

I am 44. Started watching TNG as a child. That is probably why this season has a special meaning for me and why I love it so much. TNG was my first Trek. I was hooked when I first saw the Ent-D in the intro. I watched every Trek series since. My grandfather was a huge TOS fan so I did watch TOS with him.

This is me too basically, except I gave up on Enterprise when they went back to WW2.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm 43, I became a fan around the beginning of 1991 at the age of 11. My parents bought Star Trek IV on VHS. We only had a VCR for six months at the time. I liked the movie, I wanted to see the other movies, I was hooked, and became a fan. Then I saw TNG, which was in the middle of its run, and TOS whenever they showed reruns of it (they'd take them on-and-off and, because of this, it took me five years to watch all of TOS). I watched new Star Trek from 1991 to 1999. I watched DS9 until the end, and stopped watching VOY three episodes into the sixth season (I would've stopped watching at the end of the fifth, but I wanted to see what Ron Moore brought to the table). Eventually, I watched the rest of VOY in 2008.

I liked TOS and the TOS Movies better than TNG/DS9/VOY. So I wasn't married to the Berman Style. In fact, after a certain point, I wanted him gone. I thought he was an obstacle on DS9 and was holding VOY back. So I welcomed DSC with open arms. Disco became my favorite Star Trek series, though PIC is giving it a serious run for its money. What I like about PIC is that it continues the TNG/DS9/VOY story, but without being in the TNG/DS9/VOY style. I'm not the same as I was 30 years ago, so why should Star Trek be?

 

[cooleddie74]

I'll turn 49 in November and was a toddler scrawling crude drawings of Spock and the Enterprise in the mid-to-late '70s. I grew up on TOS reruns, the TOS Movies and TNG and to me those were "the Golden Age" of Trek. The '90s and early adulthood saw Trek get grittier, more intelligent and dramatically daring so I spent my college years and twenties getting into DS9, VOY and the TNG Movies.

ENT came just as I was approaching 30 and a different person and I reacted accordingly, enjoying the Prequel approach and seeing myself and people I knew in those more contemporary characters more than those in the previous Trek series and films.

 

[Lt Mo]

39 and watched TNG and TOS movies with my big brother when I was a kid and was hooked.

My husband is a much bigger TV/movie person than myself and likes sci-fi but never saw Trek til we were married. He watched TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT and even stuck it out longer on PIC S 1-2 than I did. He liked them but didn’t LOVE them the way myself and other child fans tend to.

 

[jaime]

I’m in my forties, and would give my Trek background, but am still annoyed with myself for not making a joke about Picard remembering the spray at the waterfall a few posts back.

 

[Soong-type Android]

I grew up with TNG/DS9/VOY on the BBC in the 90s and remember the TNG and Generations toys being in the shops which my brother was really into. Then Enterprise came out on Channel 4 in 2001 and it wasn't as good and Nemesis was another disappointment.

Star Trek was dead for a long time after that and when the reboot movies and Discovery came out they just felt like a big let down, along with the first 2 Picard seasons.

 

[saddestmoon]

46 years old, going on 47.

Grew up with syndicated TOS in the background, and fell in love with the Enterprise starship herself based on TMP Refit - which despite not seeing for years to come, was aware of due to merch, and movie posters, and my neighbours Read-Along book and vinyl record. Even at the age I was, I beheld the majesty of the Refit and knew this was the ship for me!

Carried on with TOS movies, while watching TOS on weekends- whilst getting my own Read-Along of TWoK, and finally seeing TSfS at the movies mid 1980s.

Missed TNG, Voyager, and DS9 almost in their entireties due to them being shown of New Zealand’s TV3 channel - which at the time had lots of exciting shows - except, my parents place was (and still is) nestled between a river and hills, and at the time, within a coverage black spot, where no signal could be accessed… henceforth, I only ever saw TNG at friends places, on the tv screens at Fish n’ Chip shops, etc…

So was a fan of TNG, as much as Next Gen eta Trek was something I wanted to see, but not actually able to (until video, dvd came along) - but ultimately saw more of TNG movies than I did the series.

Did however watch Enterprise in fits-and-bursts (on TV 2 Thankfully!) and eventually bought box sets of seasons 3 and 4, and for the most part I loved it also as a show!

For me personally, 09 Trek and the successive Kelvin Timeline movies really were what absolutely reawakened / re-invigorated Star Trek - and have done so ever since!

And I also have enjoyed Discovery and Picard very much!

TL:dR: Me like Star Trek!

 

[Enterpriserules]

I am 43 and grew up on TOS and its films, DS9, VOY, ENT. TNG is one I had to go back and find, I only saw it after the fact. For me, one of the most depressing days was walking out of Nemesis, being so depressed that, that was the finale for the TNG crew. I don’t like DSC at all and was not really excited about anything till Picard season 2, which was better, SNW, which was a complete surprise and enjoying LD for what it is. Season 3 has rekindled my love for ST by honoring the past and creating a future I want to spend more time in.

 

[Commander Troi]

I'm 55 and grew up watching TOS reruns with my parents, TNG in its original run and the TOS movies and everything since, except that I stopped watching both VOY and ENT fairly early on. I was excited for DSC bringing ST back to tv and have watched all the new stuff.

 

[TRON JA307020]

My favorites are TOS and the Berman era of treks. The current era not so much except for SNW and season 3 of Picard. Even these two seem off to me but are way better than the previous stuff we've seen. I'm surprised they never got Berman to help out to try and keep continuuty and canon straighter. I guess he's retired

 

[Dukhat]

Berman’s job was executive producer. It wasn’t his job to maintain continuity and canon.

 

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

My favorites are TOS and the Berman era of treks. The current era not so much except for SNW and season 3 of Picard. Even these two seem off to me but are way better than the previous stuff we've seen. I'm surprised they never got Berman to help out to try and keep continuuty and canon straighter. I guess he's retired

He's probably defending himself from countless potential lawsuits related to his rather unfortunate attitude towards women.

 

[urbandefault]

I'm in my 60s and a grumpy old bastard. Get off my lawn.

Wait, what are we doing?

 

[Dukhat]

Turned 50 in January. Grew up with TOS reruns first on 13-inch B&W TVs and then a 25-inch color TV surrounded by a 2-ton wooden cabinet. Huge fan of FASA and Starfleet Battles ‘supplementary’ “canon” in the ‘80’s, which made me the starship tech nut that I am today. I remember the days when I would look forward to the next Star Trek film every three years, and when TNG premiered, I loved it no matter how horrid the first season was.

 

[137th Gebirg]

52.

And feeling every damn year of it lately.

Started with TAS (Roddenberry’s petty decanonization of it always stuck in my craw). Never knew there was a live-action version that pre-dated it until about a year later. I think the first TOS episode I ever saw was Omega Glory. Been hooked ever since.

 

[NCC-73515]

This is me too basically, except I gave up on Enterprise when they went back to WW2.

Missed the best season then

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Gone a bit off topic, but I'll bite. 40, and always had Trek in my life (mum and grandma both fans).

Spoiler: Condensing really long TMI post

I can't say for certain what episode I'll have seen first, but one that always sticks in my mind most was Balance of Terror. Being mixed race (South Asian) growing up in an almost entirely white area, it's when Spock became my childhood hero. (That episode became even more resonant after 9/11 and the subsequent massive increase in overt Islamophobia).

In the UK, we didn't get TNG until 1990, and I was 8. I definitely seen some TOS and films by then (for a start, I definitely saw Final Frontier at cinema around release).

Grew up on TNG though, and had many of the playmates figures, shuttle Goddard, Enterpise-D toy, Klingon Vorcha class, Romulan Warbird and Transporter. Always wanted bridge, bit never got it. I might have identified with Spock more than I did Data, but the TNG cast pretty much became my second family.

DS9 became my favourite in my teens (after a lukewarm reception at first).

Enjoyed Voyager, but not as much as the others, and was extremely disappointed with Ent, but carried on watching (and never totally hated it).

In the days of the DVD, Imade sure I caught up on any Trek I hadn't seen. (Including TAS, which I'd only ever caught on a rare occasion). I remember specifically hearing a lot about Spock's Brain... but any time it appeared on TV guides, it was followed by "Except in Yorkshire and Linconshire, who will receive the Super League Show". (Yes I'm from Yorkshire, and hate bloody rugby).

Anyway, I've enjoyed most Trek. The Kelvin films are my least favourite, but I was still entertained. To this day, I wish they hadn't doubled down on them being a spin-off from the Prime universe, and just let them be their own thing.

I have no problem with any of the new shows being real Trek, or any of the inconsistencies stopping them being Prime. (I think of them all as perhaps far future dramatisations of Federation History, not necessarily all with the same slant, and with artistic licence being taken here and there).

Picard is definitely the series I've been most excited about new episodes of, followed by the first couple of seasons of Disco. 25th century follow ups are absolutely what I want more of. Yes, I would like a Legacy series, but even a new cast in that era would music to my ears.

Unfortunately, this episode has been my least favourite of the season so far, like other have said, really waiting to judge it based on the next one.

 

[Nyotarules]

Child of the 1970's here, grew up on TOS watching it on the BBC with my mum who was a huge fan. To be honest any show that had a regular black person in it was watched in our home. I visited Blockbusters to watch TNG since British TV was about a year behind. TVH was the first Trek movie I watched in the cinema. I recall it was a big deal when a TOS Trek movie was due for release, the publicity in the media was huge back then. I'm one of those fans that will watch anything Trek once, even if the premise does not sound appealing (e.g Starfleet 90210 er Academy).
I have watched every single Trek TV and movie in universe timeline order, and I would recommend all fans do this at least once, just for the fun of it!
I am also a huge fan of the novelverse, used to buy boxes of the stuff in the 80's then stopped when I discovered boys, in hindsight I should have stuck with my Trek books lol

 

[Nerys Myk]

Berman’s job was executive producer. It wasn’t his job to maintain continuity and canon.

Wasn't that Okuda and Sternbach's side job?