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Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?
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Interesting thread. I thought I was the only one who gave up on some shows.
Voyager: just never resonated with me, so never watched more than a handful of episodes , but I thought Tim Russ played a Vulcan very well.
DS9: seemed like a poor cousin of Babylon 5, couldn’t watch it.
Enterprise: I wanted so to like the show as the actors were charismatic , and Jolene blalock also played a Vulcan very well. But the writing was horrible.
None of the jar jar movies worked for me and Kurtzman trek isn’t made for me. I’m sure they’re fine, but not for me.
Voyager: just never resonated with me, so never watched more than a handful of episodes , but I thought Tim Russ played a Vulcan very well.
DS9: seemed like a poor cousin of Babylon 5, couldn’t watch it.
Enterprise: I wanted so to like the show as the actors were charismatic , and Jolene blalock also played a Vulcan very well. But the writing was horrible.
None of the jar jar movies worked for me and Kurtzman trek isn’t made for me. I’m sure they’re fine, but not for me.
I gave up on Voyager a few episodes into season six, when I realised I’d given it moooore than enough opportunity and, no, it wasn’t going to get any better. I adored Farscape (and still do) and I think that show ruined Trek for me at that point. It was just everything that Voyager wasn’t.
I also gave up on Enterprise sometime around season three. I’d struggled with it up until then. I just never particularly warmed to the cast or the writing and Trek was feeling so very tired at that point. The attempt to arc up the third season was a step in the right direction but just too late for me, I’d checked out.
I’ve yet to watch SNW season three and have absolutely no enthusiasm or impetus to do so, so I guess I’ve pretty much given up on that. The shark jump point for me was really the musical episode in season two (which I’d been on the fence about until that). Whereas many loved it, for me it underscored how gimmicky and vacuous the show actually is. The character arcs were all basically “who fancies who”…and I realised at that moment I was kind of done. I’ll probably watch it eventually out of completion, but I’d rather rewatch my favourite old Treks again first.
I also gave up on Enterprise sometime around season three. I’d struggled with it up until then. I just never particularly warmed to the cast or the writing and Trek was feeling so very tired at that point. The attempt to arc up the third season was a step in the right direction but just too late for me, I’d checked out.
I’ve yet to watch SNW season three and have absolutely no enthusiasm or impetus to do so, so I guess I’ve pretty much given up on that. The shark jump point for me was really the musical episode in season two (which I’d been on the fence about until that). Whereas many loved it, for me it underscored how gimmicky and vacuous the show actually is. The character arcs were all basically “who fancies who”…and I realised at that moment I was kind of done. I’ll probably watch it eventually out of completion, but I’d rather rewatch my favourite old Treks again first.
I got into Beverly Hills 90210 just a few years ago, pretty charming cheese! At least up through season 6 with Luke Perry, Shannon Doherty and co too, just good earnest prime time soapy wacky stuff. At least for me.
On Friends I also had never seen any of it, watched most of the first couple seasons in recent years, not bad. That said, pop culture of the 80s and 90s to me ages like a fine wine, it's just great vibes. I also marsthoned Cheers and Frasier in recent years, speaking of pop culture I had heard about.
Lets see, Star Trek shows I've dropped. Picard season 1, although I am intending to watch season 3 still since I have heard it's a fun nostalgic ride with a bunch of the beloved characters. So I'll set my expectations in check and give that a go sometime soon.
^Your viewing tastes sound a lot like mine. I also did a full watch-through of Cheers and Frasier within the last few years. Friends for me is pleasantly brainless comfort food; the kind of thing that would be perfect for right after work.
I found PIC S3 pretty disappointing though, and I kind of wish they hadn't made it...or hadn't made it at the expense of the characters from S1 and S2. Though the episode with Ro Laren was a high point of the series.
I found PIC S3 pretty disappointing though, and I kind of wish they hadn't made it...or hadn't made it at the expense of the characters from S1 and S2. Though the episode with Ro Laren was a high point of the series.
I do understand that. Season 4 was exactly what Enterprise needed to be. Too bad that people who don't understand Trek always try the big Star Wars guns and post-modern time-travel whatever.
I forced myself to watch Season 3 and witnessed the burn. I never thought a Star Trek show would ever be this bad. The only good thing about Season 2 was the Enterprise crew.
For me SNW is the only decent Trek I've seen since Enterprise (apart from the Kelvin movies). Season 1 was such a step up from Disco I thought I'd hope for the best. Season 2 did deliver in my opinion, hoping Season 3 would keep improving New Trek. But the writing on Season 3 is so lazy... I'll keep watching till the end though.
I stopped Disco after Seasons 3, I just couldn't bare it anymore. And I made it further than ANY of my Trek friends. Several of them lost interest in Trek because of Disco. A few watch and enjoy SNW.
I think Academy is even worse than Disco, but I'll try to give it a full season.
Section 31 was unwatchable.
I've never given up on a Trek show, but after starting with Lower Decks S1, I watched every single subsequent episode the day/day after it came out until the middle of Picard season 3 where I just couldn't take it anymore and started waiting a few days to see it. I think I saw the finale a week after it aired at least. In hindsight Im surprised I held out on season 2 as that was also a slog. Also come to think of it I went back to watch season 1 and gave up most of the way into it for a while too, at this point Im not even sure if I remember finishing it but I dont remember a second of Nepenthe if I did see it so I may as well (re)watch the last 3 episodes. Bad show.
SNW S3 tried my patience but I stuck out for all of it, because I still had faith I'd ultimately like it overall until seeing What is Starfleet and knowing that Four and a Half Vulcans was still coming made me decide it was time to declare the season a wash. But it was so close to the end I just finished anyways. Genuinely dont know if it's a dropped show yet, I'm waiting for S4, but if 2 or 3 episodes into S4 I dont feel the tide turning I may just stop watching that too.
SNW S3 tried my patience but I stuck out for all of it, because I still had faith I'd ultimately like it overall until seeing What is Starfleet and knowing that Four and a Half Vulcans was still coming made me decide it was time to declare the season a wash. But it was so close to the end I just finished anyways. Genuinely dont know if it's a dropped show yet, I'm waiting for S4, but if 2 or 3 episodes into S4 I dont feel the tide turning I may just stop watching that too.
Much of SNW's season 3 tested the limits of my patience, with the nadir being 4.5 Vulcans and What is Starfleet. Terrarium righted the ship, but I'm still worried about what's gonna happen in those last 16 episodes. I'm hoping the lackluster scripts in season 3 were more a result of the massive industry chaos caused by the double strikes... but, we'll see.
Let's agree none of the Kelvin movies were great, but I did enjoy watching them.
INS has the benefit of raising (but poorly executing) some interesting moral conundrums. We've probably talked about it more on this board than the people behind it ever anticipated in their wildest dreams.
ID is worth a rewatch at least up to The Big Reveal(tm). It also raises some (at least one or two) worthwhile moral questions.
NEM...uh...er...say Greg, do you like dune buggies?
Into Darkness gets way too maligned (as does the Kelvin films) rather unfairly.
And write a book?
Im not super convinced about season 4 as it was most likely written with only the feedback of the first two seasons but Im curious about season 5. I feel even if Im not into S4 I'd give that one a try
You can never malign the nuTrek movies enough.
I gave up on Voyager back in the day around season 5. Not because it was bad, but because compared to DS9, B5 and Farscape it seemed like it was stuck in a time loop where nothing ever moved forward and that's not what I was interested in at that point. Though I finally watched it all a couple of years ago, alongside TNG this time, and found that by the last few seasons I couldn't chose which was my favourite.
I gave up on Enterprise when it first aired, because the first season was bloody terrible and I couldn't stand it. I jumped back in with Azati Prime, probably because of all the praise I saw on these forums, and continued from there.
And I stuck with SNW until the season one finale just annoyed the hell out of me. The only thing that could've ever convinced me to give season two a try was a crossover with Lower Decks... which then happened. There were a few actual good episodes that season, so I decided I was going to give the series a fair chance and stick with it. Even if it does have the occasional Spock's Brain, like Subspace Rhapsody.
But Wedding Bell Blues was the last straw for me. I haven't dropped a show so hard since the last few seasons of The Flash.
I gave up on Enterprise when it first aired, because the first season was bloody terrible and I couldn't stand it. I jumped back in with Azati Prime, probably because of all the praise I saw on these forums, and continued from there.
And I stuck with SNW until the season one finale just annoyed the hell out of me. The only thing that could've ever convinced me to give season two a try was a crossover with Lower Decks... which then happened. There were a few actual good episodes that season, so I decided I was going to give the series a fair chance and stick with it. Even if it does have the occasional Spock's Brain, like Subspace Rhapsody.
But Wedding Bell Blues was the last straw for me. I haven't dropped a show so hard since the last few seasons of The Flash.
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I gave up on DSC about halfway through Season 1; I realized that watching it was a chore I was paying for the privilege to perform.
I tried again with PIC and made it most of the way through Season 1 before giving up again. After that, I haven't watched any new modern Trek at all.
I tried again with PIC and made it most of the way through Season 1 before giving up again. After that, I haven't watched any new modern Trek at all.
I quite like the first and third ones, which, to mind, are better than The Final Frontier, TMP, and all of the TNG movies except First Contact.
I go back and forth on which I like more: First Contact or the Star Trek (2009).
If I understand the timeline correctly, SNW season 3 was set to go into production in mere weeks when the WGA strike was called. The season had been said to be "mostly written", and according to this TrekMovie interview with the SNW producing-director, they were up to episode 307 in building their AR environments.
Since no writers would be able to be on set during filming to troubleshoot, they delayed filming. The writers' strike ended in late September 2023, around 6 weeks before the SAG strike did in early November, and SNW season 3 finally began filming in December.
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