Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"
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I got lucky — our stories are similar for the most part, particularly the quasi-retirement of Trek when discovering the opposite sex — turned out my Mrs was at least part Trekkie, as I found a couple of old TOS paperbacks on her bookshelf. One of which was Uhura’s Song. My first Cinema Trek was V, but I am a couple of seasons younger.
Stop sending them to mind!I'm in my 60s and a grumpy old bastard. Get off my lawn.
Wait, what are we doing?
Was 9 going on 10 in 1966 when TOS premiered.
It was the first TV show I got to stay up to watch on a school night.
Been hooked ever since.
Have seen all the movies opening day and started VHS taping the TNG episodes from day one.
Recorded all the following shows through ENTERPRISE as well.
(had well over 90 VHS tapes by the time ENTERPRISE ended)
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Really? I didn't know that. I didn't find that when I searched his name.
I'm old enough to have watched TOS on its original run on NBC. The TOS movies didn't come along until I was in college and I was in my late twenties and well past my teens and childhood by the time TNG and its spinoffs debuted. I was slow to warm to TNG, but got into it eventually and have enjoyed all the subsequent Trek shows, including the new CBS productions, to varying degrees. And have been a professional Trekkie for at least thirty years now, writing tie-in fiction for various incarnations of Trek.
TOS will always be "my" STAR TREK, but that doesn't mean I can't get nostalgic about seeing the TNG gang again, or get misty-eyed when Seven recalls her days on Voyager. I'm an old softie that way.
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As we are doing this, 44 and in my younger years I was more exposed to Doctor Who than Star Trek. I saw the movies 1-3 on VHS in the 80s and saw 4-6 as a nipper in the cinema.
The BBC starting running TOS in the 90s. I watched the first few but I had beer and girls distracting me and I didn’t stay the course.
In my mid-20s I found Season 1 of TOS cheap on DVD and from there watched TOS-TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT back to back.
Maybe that’s why it’s all just Star Trek to me? Every series has crap episodes and good, but generally I regard it as one big church with DSC onwards joining. It’s all Star Trek.
You didn’t Google very hard. Search ‘Rick Berman Sexist’ and you’ll be awash with stuff. Not that I expect you will.
The BBC starting running TOS in the 90s. I watched the first few but I had beer and girls distracting me and I didn’t stay the course.
In my mid-20s I found Season 1 of TOS cheap on DVD and from there watched TOS-TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT back to back.
Maybe that’s why it’s all just Star Trek to me? Every series has crap episodes and good, but generally I regard it as one big church with DSC onwards joining. It’s all Star Trek.
You didn’t Google very hard. Search ‘Rick Berman Sexist’ and you’ll be awash with stuff. Not that I expect you will.
I'm in my early 20s...the only new Trek in my childhood was the 2009 movie which introduced me to Trek. BUT my dad was a huge Trekkie so he got me into the TOS movies, TOS and TNG shortly after. There aren't many younger Trek fans, I only have like 2 friends who are die hard fans like me. Everyone else just knows the JJ films to my dismay.
60, and started watching the original series in 1969 during its third season on NBC, I was 6 years old.
First episode I ever saw was TOS.S3 Elaan Of Troyius. I've loved the original Star Trek ever since through all of its various incarnations beginning with the Animated Series.
I was honestly disappointed after the premiere episode of TNG in 1987 (I still feel the Galaxy class is one of the worst designs for a Hera ship to this day.) When they followed the pilot with the vastly inferior to the original series episode on which it was based, IE -TNG S1 The Naked Now, many of my other friends who had liked the original Star Trek stopped watching TNG all together.
I stuck with watching the show hoping it would improve, but overall I found the first season very disappointing with the exception of the episode Conspiracy. I really enjoyed the first 20 or so minutes of that episode, but it quickly fell apart once we got to the mustache twirling possessed Starfleet aliens.
I still kept watching the series because in my market the channel That was showing it, KCOP Channel 13, sandwiched each new TNG episode between 2 TOS episodes on the weekend..
I didn't think the TNG series became watchable until a few episodes into the third season. I really hated the addition of Dr Katherine Pulaski, who is just a blatant female version of Dr. Leonard McCoy from TOS. And when they tried to replicate the Spock/McCoy dynamic; it was really horrible because Data was not like Spock in that whenever Pulaski went after him, it came across like an adult mentally abusing a child. I will give them credit that at least they realize that pretty quickly and droped the whole thing; but honestly I don't think season 2 was much of an improvement over season one, especially with them trying the tactic they did to bring back original series fans who had bails on watching TNG.
I guess that's why I like the current season of Picard a lot, as it's pretty clear that they are doing the plot from the season 1 TNG episode Conspiracy, but they're doing a much better job with the villains and their motivations.
First episode I ever saw was TOS.S3 Elaan Of Troyius. I've loved the original Star Trek ever since through all of its various incarnations beginning with the Animated Series.
I was honestly disappointed after the premiere episode of TNG in 1987 (I still feel the Galaxy class is one of the worst designs for a Hera ship to this day.) When they followed the pilot with the vastly inferior to the original series episode on which it was based, IE -TNG S1 The Naked Now, many of my other friends who had liked the original Star Trek stopped watching TNG all together.
I stuck with watching the show hoping it would improve, but overall I found the first season very disappointing with the exception of the episode Conspiracy. I really enjoyed the first 20 or so minutes of that episode, but it quickly fell apart once we got to the mustache twirling possessed Starfleet aliens.
I still kept watching the series because in my market the channel That was showing it, KCOP Channel 13, sandwiched each new TNG episode between 2 TOS episodes on the weekend..
I didn't think the TNG series became watchable until a few episodes into the third season. I really hated the addition of Dr Katherine Pulaski, who is just a blatant female version of Dr. Leonard McCoy from TOS. And when they tried to replicate the Spock/McCoy dynamic; it was really horrible because Data was not like Spock in that whenever Pulaski went after him, it came across like an adult mentally abusing a child. I will give them credit that at least they realize that pretty quickly and droped the whole thing; but honestly I don't think season 2 was much of an improvement over season one, especially with them trying the tactic they did to bring back original series fans who had bails on watching TNG.
I guess that's why I like the current season of Picard a lot, as it's pretty clear that they are doing the plot from the season 1 TNG episode Conspiracy, but they're doing a much better job with the villains and their motivations.
I’m 55 and have been watching Trek since October, 1973, when the sitter tuned the TV to WLVI Ch. 56 out of Boston and Devil in the Dark was on that Saturday night. I’ve seen all of it except Prodigy Ep 3 onwards. First, and so far only, Trek I’ve ever bailed on. Didn’t hate it, it just didn’t grab me.
While I can turn a “critical eye” to Trek if I want, I don’t bother. Two things I don’t look at with a critical eye (barring some special circumstance) are Trek and Bond. I came to each one as a child and I have fond memories of both from then. As I result, I put up with far more inconsistencies and cheesiness from those two franchises than any other. They are comfort food (though I do like it when they challenge my expectations, so I’m never looking for exact replicas when new stuff comes along).
While I can turn a “critical eye” to Trek if I want, I don’t bother. Two things I don’t look at with a critical eye (barring some special circumstance) are Trek and Bond. I came to each one as a child and I have fond memories of both from then. As I result, I put up with far more inconsistencies and cheesiness from those two franchises than any other. They are comfort food (though I do like it when they challenge my expectations, so I’m never looking for exact replicas when new stuff comes along).
I'm 39 and I watch Star Trek sometimes.
You mean just like TNG?
Ask Terry who played Jadzia.
I am 52 and remember TOS and TAS from when i was growing up in the 70's. My dad was into Star Trek then and took us all to see TMP which bored me to death and i lost interest for a bit.
Then when TWOK came out the noise around was it was really good, I knew of course Spock would die, but picked this up on VHS and then again the same with TSFS and i was back into it and my love affair truly grew with a cinema visit to see TVH, i was hooked now.
TFF didnt put too much of a damper on from a TOS movie perspective but i picked up TNG from the video store and frankly was bored to death too, think i rented a couple of episodes and gave it up, it wasnt Kirk etc of course.
TNG was shown on BBC and i remember seeing in the paper an episode called Yesterdays Enterprise and it made me watch, of course i was hoping to see Kirk but i enjoyed it, and then i think the next i watched was the best of both worlds which my memory seems to suggest was played as a 2 parter, maybe because the UK was so far behind, but for long enough i thought Family was the first episode of Season 4.
Anyway TNG came to SKY and was on every weekday so i watched it again from the start, then for some reason they started again at the end of Season 3 so i watched again, then they showed the rest, i think it was Season 7 before we really caught up in the UK.
Think since that point i didnt miss any episodes of Star Trek, I would like to say thats still the case but im not upto date with Prodigy or Lower Decks, though i like the latter a lot.
I havent hated any of the new ones, i recognise the weaknesses in Disco and the first 2 seasons of PIC but enjoyed them still. I even like the Kelvin movies although Into Darkness is not high up on my rewatch list.
Then when TWOK came out the noise around was it was really good, I knew of course Spock would die, but picked this up on VHS and then again the same with TSFS and i was back into it and my love affair truly grew with a cinema visit to see TVH, i was hooked now.
TFF didnt put too much of a damper on from a TOS movie perspective but i picked up TNG from the video store and frankly was bored to death too, think i rented a couple of episodes and gave it up, it wasnt Kirk etc of course.
TNG was shown on BBC and i remember seeing in the paper an episode called Yesterdays Enterprise and it made me watch, of course i was hoping to see Kirk but i enjoyed it, and then i think the next i watched was the best of both worlds which my memory seems to suggest was played as a 2 parter, maybe because the UK was so far behind, but for long enough i thought Family was the first episode of Season 4.
Anyway TNG came to SKY and was on every weekday so i watched it again from the start, then for some reason they started again at the end of Season 3 so i watched again, then they showed the rest, i think it was Season 7 before we really caught up in the UK.
Think since that point i didnt miss any episodes of Star Trek, I would like to say thats still the case but im not upto date with Prodigy or Lower Decks, though i like the latter a lot.
I havent hated any of the new ones, i recognise the weaknesses in Disco and the first 2 seasons of PIC but enjoyed them still. I even like the Kelvin movies although Into Darkness is not high up on my rewatch list.
51. Started out watching TOS reruns on a portable black&white TV in the 1970's.
Saw TSFS in the theatre. Tried to get into TNG, but I gave up on it (I've always found Picard bloviating).
Voyager was my first "Trek." I tuned in during S4 (when Seven of Nine came). I've loved her ever since.
Saw TSFS in the theatre. Tried to get into TNG, but I gave up on it (I've always found Picard bloviating).
Voyager was my first "Trek." I tuned in during S4 (when Seven of Nine came). I've loved her ever since.
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Based on the last few pages, I suspect most Trek fans are over 40. The franchise needs to capture the younger audience or accept its own death in 50 years time, when we fans age and pass on. Not sure if Trek Prodigy and Trek Academy will do it since the style of the new stuff is different from the style of the old stuff.
Maybe this topic should have a separate thread somewhere?
Maybe this topic should have a separate thread somewhere?
Though there's also likely to be some selection bias in who is on an old-school discussion board/BBS. Agree this is a separate topic, sorry if I've drawn us off topic!
Could. Not. Have. Said. It. Better. Myself.
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