I stopped watching both DS9 and VOY due to more external circumstances rather than choice. (Work schedules, availability…) Still, immediately got the finale of DS9 on VHS at release, and tried downloading the finale for VOY the night it aired. But had to wait instead.
Nem was the first film I didn’t bother with in the cinema, and I really didn’t make any effort to continue Enterprise past its pilot, but again, the opportunity wasn’t there.
The *only* Trek’s I could/can watch and basically don’t because I can’t be arsed are Disco, and to an extent SNW. (And Section 31, but that goes without saying.) I have tried, goodness knows, but DSC lost my interest in season 2, and SNW manages to interest me and not interest me at the same time. As a realisation of that sort of Phase Two style TOS, it’s great, as an adjunct to the great Trek History I so loved in the nineties, it’s… hit and miss.
It’s odd, because whilst I am attached to the TOS films, I am pretty sure there are episodes of TOS I still haven’t seen, so I am not some die hard. In fact I really like the design elements of the new shows, that function better as set up for the Movie Era than they do as representations of that period in Treks fictional ‘History of the Future’. It sort of works.
Everything else doesn’t, particularly the writing. DSC has its 32nd century after the time jump, and I tried, I really did — but I don’t believe in it. Because I don’t believe in the basic characters and writing of the early season, I found it even harder to get behind the sort of ‘second apocalypse’ post dystopia.
PIC would have lost me after the abysmal series 2, but the actual closure on the TNG era offered by season 3 was impossible to ignore, and mostly enjoyable.
So I suppose, it’s really just DSC I actively avoid. Some I am meh on.
Nem was the first film I didn’t bother with in the cinema, and I really didn’t make any effort to continue Enterprise past its pilot, but again, the opportunity wasn’t there.
The *only* Trek’s I could/can watch and basically don’t because I can’t be arsed are Disco, and to an extent SNW. (And Section 31, but that goes without saying.) I have tried, goodness knows, but DSC lost my interest in season 2, and SNW manages to interest me and not interest me at the same time. As a realisation of that sort of Phase Two style TOS, it’s great, as an adjunct to the great Trek History I so loved in the nineties, it’s… hit and miss.
It’s odd, because whilst I am attached to the TOS films, I am pretty sure there are episodes of TOS I still haven’t seen, so I am not some die hard. In fact I really like the design elements of the new shows, that function better as set up for the Movie Era than they do as representations of that period in Treks fictional ‘History of the Future’. It sort of works.
Everything else doesn’t, particularly the writing. DSC has its 32nd century after the time jump, and I tried, I really did — but I don’t believe in it. Because I don’t believe in the basic characters and writing of the early season, I found it even harder to get behind the sort of ‘second apocalypse’ post dystopia.
PIC would have lost me after the abysmal series 2, but the actual closure on the TNG era offered by season 3 was impossible to ignore, and mostly enjoyable.
So I suppose, it’s really just DSC I actively avoid. Some I am meh on.
