Are you "aging out" of Star Trek?

[JamesRye]

I just don't 'click' with any Trek since Disco aired to be honest.

I quite liked the reboot movies if I'm honest, they showed some respect to the source material. And Lower Decks works for what it is.

 

[The Wormhole]

While it's true my television tastes are changing as I get older (IE, these days I'm now into network procedurals, which I couldn't be bothered with as recently as a decade ago) Star Trek is something I will always have time for.

That said, my tastes in the older Trek shows have changed with age. In my youth, I considered TNG to be better than Voyager. Now I feel the opposite.

 

[Forbin]

68 here - I'll never get tired of watching TOS and TNG/DS9, but from V'Ger on, Trek has interested me less and less. LD was the exception, thanks to its humor and nostalgic references. SNW has an inbuilt nostalgia factor, but it has warped TOS to unrecognizability.

 

[Galaxy]

No, but then I still take my little ship models and go pew, pew, pew.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

It's impossible to age out of TREK. Though it's theoretically possible for newer TREKs to betray the show's premise.

 

[valkyrie013]

Age out? Probably not.

Just stop watching? Yes. Plenty of stuff that I've liked to watch either went to far, or just became boring and I've stopped watching entirely. LIke Dr Who, or Stargate Universe.

 

[fireproof78]

There's never been a part of Trek I one hundred percent loved so if I don't like a newer show I just chalk it up to not for me and move on.

 

[I am not Herbert]

Yes and no. None of the newer shows (with the exception of Prodigy, which I watched with my kids) do much for me. Some of them are quite well crafted and made with obvious love for Star Trek as a franchise. But the acting, writing, direction, visuals, inter-character dynamics, 'feel,' etc of the newer shows are just not what I am looking for. Even with the best of them (SNW, I'd argue) I found myself losing interest in an episode halfway in, turning it off, and never returning. I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was only watching the show because it was a "Star Trek" show, and that (if so) there are better things for me to be doing with my finite free time than checking boxes on a fandom scorecard. But I don't really know if that is "aging out" of Star Trek so much as it is the uncontroversial reality that the modern shows are quite different than the pre-2005 shows (and starkly different than TOS, which is my jam). It shouldn't be surprising that many of us who like the older stuff aren't going to like the newer stuff. A much more extreme example, but I don't think anyone who loved the BSG remake would be expected to love the Dirk Benedict version (or vice versa) just because they both have "Apollo" and "Cylons" in them.

I *did* feel like I was aging out of, or had exhausted, TOS 12 or so years ago when it first showed up on Netflix (which saddened me), but I randomly came back about 5 years ago and enjoy it now more than ever, to my immense surprise. I think what has helped me is that I limit myself to watching whatever episode is "playing" at the moment on Pluto when I find some TV-watching time. This makes the experience feel more like watching it on Saturday afternoon syndication in the '80s, take it or leave it, catch as catch can. I have wound up watching (and enjoying, to some extent) episodes I would never have sought out (like Mudd's Women or Assignment: Earth).The paradox of choice, I guess.

 

[flandry84]

In my sixties now too..(sigh) and while I’m still a Trekker I’m just not so bothered if some of it doesn’t work for me anymore.
Lower decks and now SNW ..I’ve gone as far as I’m going with them.Not holding out much hope for the Academy show but I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

 

[1001001]

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?

I hadn’t really thought about the issue in terms of age.

The Berman era is “my Trek.”

The modern era has been more hit or miss for me, but I do enjoy a lot of it (specifically LDS and SNW).

Is that because I’m aging? Maybe?

I still see myself as a Trekkie and will give SFA a fair shot. As I will with anything else that comes our way.