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

[fireproof78]

The Star Trek I knew and grew up loving began and ended with TOS. There's zero way to capture that show, that feeling, those characters for me. TNG and it's spin offs were not the same. The films were not the same. So, it was an extremely harsh lesson in approaching a show on its own terms.

Star Trek can't just appeal to nostalgia for me. It's got to connect on a character level or it's just another show. That includes TNG, VOY and ENT.

 

[Attentive Senpai]

DIS and PIC, mostly.

I genuinely tried with Disco, but somewhere around episode 10, I just stopped watching. I think I stopped caring before that, though. I've never been a fan of the Mirror Universe as a major plot point - I enjoy it as a one-off now and then - and it turning up was in some respect the cherry on top of the other things I disliked about DIS. If I had to think about it, I likely started to give up because I thought "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For the Lamb's Cry" was a ridiculously edgy episode title.

PIC was harder to give up on because I genuinely did like parts of it. Picard is my absolute favourite character in fiction. I watched it for him. I got through the first season, but by the end, I'd lost interest in the show. I think two things ultimately broke my interest. The first was Jurati just randomly killing Maddox because plot. The second was them bringing Icheb back by having him gruesomely tortured to death on screen to open an episode. The first of those sent me the message that I shouldn't give a crap about any of the characters, since they'd likely turn heel or die within a couple episodes anyway. The second was just a degree of over-the-top edginess that turned my stomach through pure unexpected viscerality.

The common thread with both, at least when I reflect on it, is that I felt like I couldn't catch my breath, digest the action or get into the heads of the characters. Both shows moved too fast and cluttered the storyline, careening too wildly from twist to twist for me to keep track of and still feel engaged. PIC held my interest for longer largely because it's about my sci-fi hero, but ultimately lost me through the same storytelling structures.

 

[Noname Given]

Star Trek: Voyager. It sarted withn a really good premise that had me excited for it (that they pretty much abandoned QUICKLY) - and when S2 Ep. 1 The 37's aired when it got to gthe scene where they were going to the Cargo Bay to see who wanted to stay behind because the Planet had a very similar culture to 'Trek Modern' Earth - and NO ONE of the crew (and especially any former Maqui who were facing Prison sentences if/when they returned to Federation Space) decided to stay - that's when I said:

"Yeah, I can't watch the garbage writing this show has anymore..."

and stopped.

I've seen some post S2 VOY episodes over the years, as friends tried to tell me for them "It's gotten better..." but yeah, didn't agree with that assessment, and still haven't seen much beyond S1 and have no desire to watch VOY further.

 

[DonIago]

Star Trek: Voyager. It sarted withn a really good premise that had me excited for it (that they pretty much abandoned QUICKLY) - and when S2 Ep. 1 The 37's aired when it got to gthe scene where they were going to the Cargo Bay to see who wanted to stay behind because the Planet had a very similar culture to 'Trek Modern' Earth - and NO ONE of the crew (and especially any former Maqui who were facing Prison sentences if/when they returned to Federation Space) decided to stay - that's when I said:

"Yeah, I can't watch the garbage writing this show has anymore..."

and stopped.

I've seen some post S2 VOY episodes over the years, as friends tried to tell me for them "It's gotten better..." but yeah, didn't agree with that assessment, and still haven't seen much beyond S1 and have no desire to watch VOY further.

Heh. We just talked about this in a different thread.

 

[Lucky]

I've watched every Star Trek series and film and never reached a last straw. I'm so invested in the universe that I feel compelled to watch it all.

 

[USS Firefly]

I only watched VOY on and of. I gave up on ENT I think after 10 episodes because It felt the same as TNG and VOY.
DISCO we gave up after season 3, we never liked Michael, especially when she was so emotionally.
Lower decks I gave up after 5 episodes because it isn't my kind of humor

 

[Vanyel]

DISCO we gave up after season 3, we never liked Michael, especially when she was so emotionally.

I didn't like her because she had no redemtion arc. It was just you're no longer a mutineer.

 

[Denise]

I gave up on DS9 about three quarters of the way through. I watched only a few episodes of Enterprise at the beginning and at the end. I thought that there was some promise at the end, but then it was cancelled. I watched some of Voyager and lost interest. I watched about a half hour of the first episode of DIS but then thought "what's the point" as I didn't understand streaming and didn't want to pay for a subscription to what I thought should be a network show. Never watched Picard. Have watched only a few episodes of SNW. I just couldn't believe the characters were younger versions of Spock, Uhura, etc. I might give it another go at some point.

 

[suarezguy]

I stopped regularly watching Enterprise after "Fusion", that episode was decent but not particularly good or enjoyable, most so far especially in 2002 had been so-so, the plots of "Rogue Planet"/"Oasis" and "Acquisition" seemed really uninspired, I did see latter parts of "Detained" (decent), "Acquisition" and "Vox Sola" bad, "Shockwave, Part II", "Singularity" (decent), "Carbon Creek" , "Marauders" and "Precious Cargo" , that completely irked me and I completely stopped for nearly two years.

From rewatch, I still can't see how someone can continue regularly watching after "Precious Cargo" let alone "Carbon Creek"/"Marauders"/"A Night in Sickbay"/"Precious Cargo".

 

[suarezguy]

And if it counts I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode, I don't think you should have to pay to watch and definitely not pay to watch the resolution of a cliffhanger from the first episode.

 

[GulBahana]

Somewhere in the mid-first season of Enterprise, I started to lose interest. The storylines didn't hook me to want to continue watching. I also didn't care for the temporal cold war stuff. Previously, I would tape every Trek episode and look forward to each week.

 

[Set Harth]

In typical bad timing, I gave up on DS9 before it got interesting.

 

[Cyfa]

From rewatch, I still can't see how someone can continue regularly watching after "Precious Cargo" let alone "Carbon Creek"/"Marauders"/"A Night in Sickbay"/"Precious Cargo".

~ You've just listed three of my favourite ENT episodes! (The rather dull "Marauders" is not one of the three)

 

[Starflight]

"Carbon Creek" is great, maybe not one that warrants multiple rewatches but it's nice to have that kind of extremely off-formula story now and then.

 

[The Wormhole]

I stopped regularly watching Enterprise after "Fusion", that episode was decent but not particularly good or enjoyable, most so far especially in 2002 had been so-so, the plots of "Rogue Planet"/"Oasis" and "Acquisition" seemed really uninspired, I did see latter parts of "Detained" (decent), "Acquisition" and "Vox Sola" bad, "Shockwave, Part II", "Singularity" (decent), "Carbon Creek" , "Marauders" and "Precious Cargo" , that completely irked me and I completely stopped for nearly two years.

From rewatch, I still can't see how someone can continue regularly watching after "Precious Cargo" let alone "Carbon Creek"/"Marauders"/"A Night in Sickbay"/"Precious Cargo".

As it turns out, Precious Cargo was the episode Brannon Braga actually requested UPN not to air. Even the episode's writer, David Goodman said "the piece of crap that aired is not the piece of crap I wrote."

 

[1001001]

"Carbon Creek" is great, maybe not one that warrants multiple rewatches but it's nice to have that kind of extremely off-formula story now and then.

I’m a sucker for the crew in another life stories.

The Inner Light, 11:59, and most definitely, Carbon Creek.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Carbon Creek was one of the better episodes of ENT. And I Love Lucy is on.

 

[Farscape One]

"CARBON CREEK" was pretty good. "The Inner Light" was simply excellent.

11:59 was just plain boring.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Never gave up on Voyager but I lost interest and stopped caring if I missed episodes or saw them very late. Didn't see the finale for ages after first airing.

Never liked Enterprise so only saw it on and off if convenient.

Gave up on Disco when it went MU. Then thought S2 was a big improvement only to give up again when Red Angel was just a Burnham. Went again thanks to Covid and got to the end of S4 but had no interest is even starting S5.

Seeing as they are all stand alone I gave every season of Picard a go but it became apparent S2 and 3 were total utter shte after 3 episodes.

SNW I haven't given up but like Voyager I'm happy to skip episodes. I skip the wacky ones and Spock ones.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I’m a sucker for the crew in another life stories.

The Inner Light, 11:59, and most definitely, Carbon Creek.

FAR BEYOND THE STARS as well?