Anticlimactic teasers?

[Scotty]

Indeed, if anything Voyager "started the trend" of short teasers. In fact, I can pinpoint exactly where that started, Scorpion Part 1, which just consisted of two Borg ships instantly getting blown apart.

I remember even the first time I saw that episode, pumped though I was because what I'd heard about the episode excited me, I was disappointed at such a short and insignificant teaser.

Unfortunately, Scorpion's teaser proved popular among fans, in fact I think it still ends up in the top ten of fans' favourite teasers which may have contributed to the teasers getting shorter in Voyager's run until finally Enterprise had completely meaningless teasers.

It wasn't actually Voyager. I remember reading in an interview with the writers that it was actually Brannon Braga who disliked long teasers. That's why it started on Voyager and continued through ENT.

 

[Tosk]

In fact, I can pinpoint exactly where that started, Scorpion Part 1, which just consisted of two Borg ships instantly getting blown apart.

Nah, they were doing it as early as season 1. (Maybe not regularly, but still.)

"Faces" opens with a short panning shot, someone saying "B'Elanna" and her looking up to reveal to us that her face is fully Klingon.

Anyone remember the show "Due South"? It was KING for this kind of thing. The longest "teaser" they had was TEN MINUTES

The Sarah Connor Chronicles might claim the crown; they had ten minute openers almost as a standard approach.

 

[The Wormhole]

In fact, I can pinpoint exactly where that started, Scorpion Part 1, which just consisted of two Borg ships instantly getting blown apart.

Nah, they were doing it as early as season 1. (Maybe not regularly, but still.)

"Faces" opens with a short panning shot, someone saying "B'Elanna" and her looking up to reveal to us that her face is fully Klingon.

The teaser for Faces was a rarity, given they still had plenty of long ones. In fact, I think season 2's Deadlock had a seven or eight minute long teaser, and it was written by Braga despite his supposed dislike of long teasers.

However, nearly every teaser after Scorpion was under two minutes, with very few exceptions, which is why I say it started the trend.

 

[Rojixus]

^Yeah, except it was a recurring theme throughout the movie all the way to the end when it turns out that there was no party in the prime universe, unlike that poker game where Beverly tried to bet the men's beards on the game which never got even a mention after the opening credits.

This is true, but you could not tell from the teaser.

 

[Kpnuts]

VOY Human Error: Seven plays piano! Riveting!

I quite liked that actually. Simple and different.

 

[DS9forever]

I recall an early Enterprise episode teaser where it was just Hoshi and Phlox talking. You couldn't even say it was character building as they talked about nothing.