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

[F. King Daniel]

I haven't yet, although the last 2 seasons of Discovery were a struggle after 3 enjoyable ones. I definitely wasn't always watching on release day, the last season. Always the release week, though

I remember when ENT was on, the first 2 seasons, I was watching out of some kind of loyalty more than anything. Glad I held on because I loved season 3.

Voyager we always watched but towards the end it was more on in the background that first run.

 

[The Wormhole]

I definitely wasn't always watching on release day, the last season. Always the release week, though

This feels like an awesome standard to adopt. "I'm not into this show enough to catch on release day, but it's still worth checking out on release week."

Hey, I get it. It's similar to my current attitude towards MCU shows.

 

[V'Lias]

I've given up on two, Picard and Discovery. There wasn't any particular episode that made me quit, they just both committed the unpardonable sin of being boring to me.

On Discovery I made it to season 2. I really liked Saru, and thought Stamets was interesting, but under-utilized. In season one I thought Lorca's character was interesting, and was curious to learn more about him until the mirror universe twist. Then in season 2 I liked the Enterprise crew as well, but I was bored with the serialization in both seasons.

On Picard I only made it to the end of season 1. I liked a few of the characters, Soji and Rios primarily, but ran into the same issues with the serialization as I did with Discovery.

 

[DonIago]

I don't do streaming, so I have some sense of what to expect from the more current series before I'm faced with the question of whether to expose myself to them. LD was great, and I'm happy with what I've seen of SNW though I haven't gotten around to watching all of S2 yet. PIC S3, though...I eventually bought it I think mostly for the sake of completion and maybe morbid curiosity, and by and large it lived down to my expectations. :| PRO was canceled before its time, but I'm glad it got to tell a reasonably complete story. I watched all of DISCO, though I got increasingly dispiritied with its tendency to be, "The Michael Burnham Show"...I think I may have hesitated to pick up S5 because I had a sense that it wasn't going to be that great, but I enjoyed S3 and especially the larger themes of S4 (though I think they had too little main story for the number of episodes).

There's still at least one episode of VOY and more than one of ENT I haven't seen. I'm discinlined to buy VOY on DVD just to address that, and while I have ENT I've heard the episodes I missed aren't worth making a point of watching anyway (e.g. "Precious Cargo", "Carpenter Street").

 

[Cyfa]

and while I have ENT I've heard the episodes I missed aren't worth making a point of watching anyway (e.g. "Precious Cargo", "Carpenter Street").

~ Don't worry, I'll watch these two for you ("Precious Cargo" is one of my favourite/most watched ENT eps - I love "Carpenter Street" too!)

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

This is a funny story: Back when I was going to the Kubert School (If you don't know what it is, it's an art school for comic books & cartooning), we had an assignment to draw a two-page comics adaptation of a television show.

Joe taught me third year. It was an assignment for his class, IIRC.

Two of Joe's kids also attended the school. I'm not sure who their specific teachers were.

 

[drt]

I stopped watching both DS9 and VOY due to more external circumstances rather than choice.

Similar for me. I had thought it was during DS9s last season and VOY’s fifth, but when I rewatched DS9 season 7 for the first time since it originally aired maybe six years ago, it turned out I had actually seen all of the episodes, just didn’t remember them well. So it really was only VOY where I fell off the bandwagon sometime in Season 6. I managed to catch most of those episodes in syndication in the early 2000s (although I’m not 100% sure if I’ve seen them all).

I was fully back on board for ENT and saw all of the first two seasons, but when they moved it to Fridays for Season 3 I was more interested in going out on the town and never saw the last two seasons until a rewatch during the pandemic.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I mentally switched off when my favourite character, Airiam, was killed off .

I find this interesting because, as best I can remember, Airiam didn't receive any character development until the episode where she was killed off. Before that, I'd consider her a glorified extra. So it kind of blows my mind that she was someone's favorite.

 

[Mage]

Dean Stockwell was still acting in 2002, wasn't he?

He was in an episode of Enterprise and had screentime with Bakula.

 

[Takeru]

I gave up on Enterprise halfway through the first season, it just wasn't good. Archer was an unlikable lead and most scripts felt like mediocre TNG or Voyager episode ideas.

I returned to the show later but it took a lot of time for me to give it a second chance.

 

[Yoda]

Never started Prodigy.

Didn't finish Lower Decks. No particular reason, just fell off, and I'm not sure which episode I'm on. I do intend to finish at some point.

Didn't finish Disco. Got fairly late into the first time jump season and fell off. Was less that season's fault than the first couple. Though I suppose seeing Stacey Abrams on the show for no reason probably didn't help. Not sure if I'll finish. Was kind of hoping for RedLetterMedia to take a stab at the last couple of seasons, but alas no such luck and thus little impetus to limp over the finish line with probably the worst overall Trek show.

Seeing this clip from the VOY episode "Flashback" again on the BBS today reminded me that it played a big part in me giving up on watching VOY regularly:

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Seems like a good scene to me if only for: