Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?

Lord Garth said:

One day I'll give Hill Street Blues a shot. I have no idea when, but at some point. I hope it lives up to all the hype I've heard about it over the years!

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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.

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.

Warp Core Breach said:

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.

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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.

Trip’s pregnancy. Thankfully, I gave the show a second chance 15 years later and S3-4 were solid.

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

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)

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.

"Lift Us Up..." was when post-TOS Trek finally grew up.