You really should. I'm not sure how well it holds up today since I haven't seen it in years, but at the time it was groundbreaking and amazing for pretty much its full run.
Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?
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TNG: Made it to the series finale, but I could not squint and pretend a number of episodes were uninspired and lifeless affairs.
ENT: I never believed TOS needed a prequel series, and as expected, the various acts of retconned BS made the series feel like some alternate universe exercise, which made tolerating the series all the way through quite impossible. Ironically enough, ENT's finest hours took place in an alternate, or more specifically mirror universe in the "In a Mirror Darkly" 2-parter.
PIC: Nope. Endless reasons why.
DISC: Same.
SNW: See ENT entry.
ENT: I never believed TOS needed a prequel series, and as expected, the various acts of retconned BS made the series feel like some alternate universe exercise, which made tolerating the series all the way through quite impossible. Ironically enough, ENT's finest hours took place in an alternate, or more specifically mirror universe in the "In a Mirror Darkly" 2-parter.
PIC: Nope. Endless reasons why.
DISC: Same.
SNW: See ENT entry.
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I've sampled some of it and continued this sub-discussion in the Controversial Opinions thread.
As long as the weekly rag-on-TNG session is going on, I stopped at season 4 in my last rewatch, picking a handful of about ten episodes from 4 - 7 to revisit. Going through the whole thing just seemed like too much of a slog. It's been said before but you can really feel something about the show shift for the worse during the fourth season.
DS9 back in the nineties. I started watching Trek when DS9 was in the middle of its run. And the re-runs on tv never started at the beginning, they jumped randomly back and forth from season to season, sometimes episodes from two different seasons back-to-back. DS9 is not fun this way. Caught up when renting DVDs became a thing.
DIS after season 2, which I actually liked the more adventurous first half of. Then the time-jump felt like they completely abandoned their series and wanted to create a completely new show, making having watched the first two seasons & stories a complete waste.
PIC after season 1 finale, when it became clear nuTrek's obsession with universe-ending plots stretched over a whole season (but completely overloaded final episodes) was just not my cup of tea.
Ironically - after the TNG cast's return was announced, I was interested to watch PIC season 3 live again (which in the end I didn't like either - but the first half was fun). For that, in anticipation, I forced myself through the garbage that is season 2. Also I genuinely loved SNW that was starting at that time. Then I thought, what gives, and caught up on DIS s3&4 as well, once it was known that it would end, so I watched the last season (5) live again.
What a journey
DIS after season 2, which I actually liked the more adventurous first half of. Then the time-jump felt like they completely abandoned their series and wanted to create a completely new show, making having watched the first two seasons & stories a complete waste.
PIC after season 1 finale, when it became clear nuTrek's obsession with universe-ending plots stretched over a whole season (but completely overloaded final episodes) was just not my cup of tea.
Ironically - after the TNG cast's return was announced, I was interested to watch PIC season 3 live again (which in the end I didn't like either - but the first half was fun). For that, in anticipation, I forced myself through the garbage that is season 2. Also I genuinely loved SNW that was starting at that time. Then I thought, what gives, and caught up on DIS s3&4 as well, once it was known that it would end, so I watched the last season (5) live again.
What a journey
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I tend to be a trek completionist. I’ve seen every series all the way through except for Star Trek Scouts, which I haven’t bothered with and Lower Decks. I made it somewhere in the third season before I finally admitted defeat and quit a Star Trek show. I’ll skip over my critiques, just say that I did not enjoy the series, despite really trying to like it.
Discovery: "Battle at the Binary Stars" (kept up with news during the first season, and sporadic clips until they traveled to the future)
Picard: The first episode (though I eventually watched the second and third seasons with family)
Strange New Worlds: "Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (as one reviewer noted, a Star Trek adaptation of Omelas wouldn't end with the character just walking away)
Picard: The first episode (though I eventually watched the second and third seasons with family)
Strange New Worlds: "Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach" (as one reviewer noted, a Star Trek adaptation of Omelas wouldn't end with the character just walking away)
not a series, but I haven't finished Sec31 and probably never will. If Legacy ever becomes a show I doubt I'd watch it, either.
It grew on me, so it's possible!
I gave up on DiscoTrek after Season 3, I think, when I realized I wasn't interested in finding out "what caused the Burn" and when I finally found out I happened to be annoyed more than anything.
I think I saw all the other shows in their entirety so far although Picard Season 2 was really pushing my limits.
I think I saw all the other shows in their entirety so far although Picard Season 2 was really pushing my limits.
Yes. It holds up damn fine. It was and is. The kind of show NBC refuses to make now, and HBO-worthy for a full-blown re-do. (Seems they prefer WESTWORLD and PERRY MASON.) Nothing reaches its level. It's the James Doohan of cop dramas. To crib from one of its '80s promos, I will never be over the HILL.
Picard sort of, I just disavow season 3 but that hasn't dampened my love of seasons 1 and 2.
Prodigy I watched the first episode and genuinely felt regret, I tried it fairly but it was very clearly a show for small children.
Prodigy I watched the first episode and genuinely felt regret, I tried it fairly but it was very clearly a show for small children.
The only Star Trek series I couldn't finish was TAS. It's such a slog. It's so boring it's hard to stay awake. It came out before I was born so I've only seen it streaming. The limited animation is too much (or rather, little). That said, while I stopped after "The Time Trap" I have seen "The Slaver Weapon" to check out the Kzinti and "The Counter-Clock Incident" to check out white April. I tried to watch "The Practical Joker" for the proto-holodeck but couldn't sit through it. I may try to finish the series in micro bursts.
This has been a very revealing discussion thread. I would have assumed that the vast majority of commentators on this website would have watched most of the Star Trek series, but there appear to be many here who have barely touched entire series. I definitely fall into the latter category- I have watched many but not nearly all of TNG, a smattering of Voyager, a handful of DS9, one episode of Discovery, and four or so SNW. It occurred to me a few years ago (although I should have realized it before) that I'm not really a Star Trek fan, I am a TOS (+TMP) fan. Not a particularly profound realization, but I think it has helped make me a little more tolerant of others' narrow enthusiasms; I'm sure there are many Discovery fans out there who don't, and don't need to, give a damn about TOS, etc
Neither did James Sikking's Howard.
I mistakenly thought that actress played Shanha {sic?} in GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION.....but it's confirmed that three GOT guest stars, Angelique Pettyjohn included, did appear on HILL STREET separately. The fearsome ringleader (Galt)---well, the actor playing him---was literally slammed against a wall by the mildest-mannered HSB regular of them all, Joe Spano's Henry.
Brent Spiner and Johnny Frakes are also guest star alumni. Frakes got ''Belkered'' while trying to escape.
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