How did everyone survive the Trek Drought?

[Trek4Ever]

The Trek Drought of course is the period of time between 2005 (Enterprise's final episode) and this year (the release of Star Trek).

I remember reading posts in 05 from some bemoaning what they were going to do in the meantime to get over not having new Trek to rely on. For the first time since the 70s there wasn't any new Trek shows or movies.

So what did you do to hold you over until the new film was released? Read the novels? Fan films?

For myself I contented myself with watching the Re-mastered TOS shows. Part of me pretended that the new effects constituted watching a new episode and this was true of FX ladden episodes like the Doomsday Machine. Also I intentionally held off on watching a handful of Trek episodes from the other shows so that I had "new" episodes to watch. It wasn't much but it worked.

 

[Brolan]

BSG tided me over.

 

[Sci]

Star Trek didn't really end for me, because the novels were (and are) still coming out.

 

[Danny99]

Well considering Space plays every series at least once a day, I was alright.

Plus plenty of new Stargate kept me busy.

 

[Bill Morris]

For me, the famine continues, since I don't accept the J.J. thing as part of Trek but rather something that prevents real Trek from being made.

 

[Cyke101]

Lots of Star Trek Armada and Bridge Commander.

Then the movie came out and I was fine once again. But I bought the AA Enterprise-D a couple months after the movie came out and I became a Super Trekkie once again. If the ship was available in 2007, it would have kept me satiated. It's a thing of beauty.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Books.

 

[RyuRoots]

Funny thing is, I didn't even start on Trek 'til last year, so there wasn't even much of a drought from my perspective. So I have it good.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Well, BSG and SG kept me sated, as well as judicious reading of literary S/F and heavy amounts of Trek gaming, roleplaying and message board usage.

 

[I am not Spock]

I went to uni during the drought, so I didn't see much TV. But I contented myself by watching reruns and DVDs, and finding other shows to get into in the meantime.

I never doubted that Trek would return at some point.

 

[WillsBabe]

Didn't really seem like a drought to me. There was so much back catalogue Trek to watch and novels to read etc that I hardly noticed it. The years after TOS ending, that was a drought!

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I just wasn't that interested in Star Trek for most of that time, but then I never watched Enterprise at the time anyway and didn't even know it had been cancelled till well after the fact. I did watch Trek as a teenager, but Trek and I drifted apart for some years, so for me there was no drought.

 

[EmperorTiberius]

For me, the famine continues, since I don't accept the J.J. thing as part of Trek but rather something that prevents real Trek from being made.

Bingo. I've been in the drought since voyager ended, even though I've seen occasional episode of ent and the new film. The film was good if you look at it as sci fi, but no good if you look at it as Star Trek, I won't be watching the next one. The drought is bound to continue

 

[JarodRussell]

For me the Trek Drought lasts since 2002. And the Good Trek Drought lasts even longer, began in 1999 with the end of DS9.

I want a continuation of what was once an excellent franchise. All they did in the last 10 years are pointless alternate universes and temporal cold war timelines.

 

[Deckerd]

Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica.

 

[JustKate]

Didn't really seem like a drought to me. There was so much back catalogue Trek to watch and novels to read etc that I hardly noticed it. The years after TOS ending, that was a drought!

Exactly what I was thinking. Drought-schmought. Four years is nuthin'.

You could watch shows on various channels, you could get the DVDs, there were books...

This wasn't even much of dry spell, much less a drought.

 

[RoJoHen]

I welcomed the "drought." I loved the thought that there would be no Trek for a while because the last movie and series were total crap.

 

[Mach5]

For me, the famine continues, since I don't accept the J.J. thing as part of Trek but rather something that prevents real Trek from being made.

I'm curious, do you actually hope to see your real Trek, like, EVER AGAIN? Because this something you speak of succeeded in ways "real trek" never could.

On Topic: Farscape, The 4400, nuBSG, TSCC (suckz, I know)...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Reruns and DVDs and other assorted Sci-fi shows.

 

[GSchnitzer]

A bunch of friends and I made a slew of Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II episodes.