Are you "aging out" of Star Trek?

[Omega-Trekker]

I grew up on Star Trek, TOS as a youngster, TNG as a younger adult, then DS9, VOY... later I even watched ENT... but I'm not into cartoons, Discovery was painful and I dropped it after the first few episodes. I watched the first season of SNW but loved all three seasons of Picard. But now as a senior citizen, I'm finding I just can not seem to bite on the new stuff. Am I the only one who has issues with the new stuff or just a basic, meh?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Modern TV began with the Sopranos.

Reruns of anything don't do me like they used to.

Lower Decks is awesome.

 

[Starflight]

The new shows are genuinely very different from TOS/TNG/Voyager, I reckon being a fan of "classic" Trek doesn't smoothly translate to enjoying the new stuff.

The only season of the streaming-era Trek I've really liked is SNW season one, and even then mostly just the first half, so you're doing better with it than I am!

 

[HIjol]

As to the title of the Thread?

Absolutely Not!!!

I can dislike aspects, iterations, and episodes of all the Versions.

But (at going-on-Seventy Years Old) Star Trek is part of my Being…!!!

Plus, The Horta, Dr. Pulaski, and
Star Trek: Enterprise…

…but that involves about Eleventy Other Threads…

 

[Nerys Myk]

At 66? Nah. I'll Trek till I die.

 

[HotRod]

Nah. The older I get, the more I love the franchise. I just care less about the little things, like if something in a newer show doesn’t align perfectly with a line of dialogue from over half a century ago.

 

[Shawnster]

I'm finding I just can not seem to bite on the new stuff. Am I the only one who has issues with the new stuff or just a basic, meh?

Nope. You're not alone. Nope, I'm not aging out of Trek and neither are you.

I thought I was. I thought this over 20 years ago. And not just Trek. My favorite band made a follow up to their epic concept album from 1988. I hated it. George Lucas finally decides to make episodes 1 - 3. I really disliked them. I don't want to think about Episodes 7-9. JJ Abrams makes 3 Star Trek movies that I am not motivated to watch ever again after my first viewing. Man, when did I turn into the old man that thinks anything after 1999 is crap?

Then there were new things I loved. Andor is breathtaking. Mandalorean, Solo, Rogue One makes me want to play with Star Wars figures again. Prodigy and Lower Decks were entertaining and I actually enjoyed Revenge of the Sith and Star Trek Beyond.

I decided I'm not aging out, it's just those in charge now are not in tune with my interests. I do like modern series such as Expanse, Foundation, For All Mankind, so I can get excited about modern story telling. I'm not stuck in the past. Trek (and all of modern entertainment) has simply gotten so fractured or Balkanized or pigeon holed. The amount of creators with their own ideas, own visions, and own tales to tell is just exponentially greater than last century. Couple that with the money people focusing tighter on making the most money by appealing to the broadest fan base and you get results that are simply not for everyone.

I like SNW the best of modern Trek, but that's not a high bar.

Eh6, maybe I am getting old. Young minds, fresh ideas, be tolerant.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Nah. The older I get, the more I love the franchise. I just care less about the little things, like if something in a newer show doesn’t align perfectly with a line of dialogue from over half a century ago.

Yeah, this. I find I enjoy most of the newer shows and movies in some capacity. While the older stuff is my jam, it's not a deal breaker either. I guess I've learned that I don't have to watch EVERYTHING that comes down the road.

 

[Set Harth]

JJ Abrams makes 3 Star Trek movies that I am not motivated to watch ever again after my first viewing.

He actually only made two of them, if you mean directing.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Nope. There have been some aspects of the new trek that I really enjoyed (like Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds). Star Trek is still rather important to me.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Nope

 

[FredH]

There are a couple of different ways to answer the question.

Have I aged out of believing that a future reminiscent of Star Trek’s can be reached from the world as it currently exists? Sadly, I have.

But as far as the franchise as a franchise is concerned, the only times I felt I’d aged out — temporarily, as it turned out — were a couple of times during early TNG’s run, when some particular episode (I no longer remember which, but it was somewhere in the Season 2 through Season 4 range) struck me as too dopey and crude to be worth continuing. But there was more than one stretch like that, where one week I decided that was it, enough! and then someone convinced me to check out just one more, and that one was good enough that it more than made up for it.

Since then, no — I’ve always ultimately found it worth sticking with.

 

[Firebird]

I'm approaching my 40's and I've been a Star Trek fan for over 30 years. At this point, my fandom hasn't dimmed in the slightest. In fact, I'd say it's only increasing as the years go by and it's finding new ways to express itself - illustrations, my ongoing fanfic series, getting involved with the Trekkie community on BlueSky.

I ain't going anywhere, and that's the truth, Ruth.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I ain't going anywhere, and that's the truth, Ruth.

That I can believe, Eve

Uh, what rhymes with "Magda?"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That one's a dud, Mudd.

 

[Tosk]

I may not like all of the recent Trek output, but I wager I'll be a Trekkie until the grave at this point. I was a Trekkie when there was no new Trek to watch, so even if I stopped watching the new stuff altogether, I don't think my love for the franchise in general would go away.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Became a Trekkie in September, 1973. Ain't gonna stop now.

 

[FredH]

That I can believe, Eve

Uh, what rhymes with "Magda?"

Nothing, so just fly your Trekkie flag. Duh!

 

[F. King Daniel]

No, it's the children who are wrong.[/Skinner]

 

[CorporalCaptain]

At 66? Nah. I'll Trek till I die.

Same, except still a few more years to go until 66!