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

[Vger23]

I gave up on SFA after watching the premier on YouTube and seeing the clips for S1E2.

I tried...but it just isn't for me.

I quite like the first and third ones, which, to mind, are better than The Final Frontier, TMP, and all of the TNG movies except First Contact.

I go back and forth on which I like more: First Contact or the Star Trek (2009).

I actually have a soft spot for all the Star Trek movies. I love them all to varying degrees. Insurrection is more than a bit vapid, but I still find re-watch value in it. S31 I didn't like, but I don't count it either, because it wasn't a theatrical release.

I miss Trek at the movie theater......

 

[Klingon Empire]

Pic S3. I went into it thinking that, honestly, it would be like Insurrection or First Contact. About half way through, I realized I was watching Nemesis Part 2 and gave up. It just irked me so badly how squandered the TNG cast was basically due to bad writing and bad direction. I watched the relevant best scenes on youtube, but after two seasons of waiting for it to get better, I just couldn't find the willpower to wait for something that obviously was never going to happen.

 

[Tallguy]

I heard a Cranky Old Man eviscerating SFA the other day. Not unexpected given this person's background. I understand all of the reasons why this was not the show for this person.

BUT: Someone then said "The only Star Trek I knew growing up was the bald guy. Is that good?"

Cranky then replied: Yes. And went on to admit that it takes a couple of seasons to get going. But went on to talk about all of the great things about TNG.

Again, given my knowledge of this person's background, I cannot imagine that he was on board with TNG in 1987. For almost all of the same reasons. (I confess, Jean-Luc never curled up in the captain's chair with a book.)

Time heals all wounds, I guess.

Except for Into Darkness. I hate that thing.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Except for Into Darkness. I hate that thing.

I call that one 'Into Dumbness'.

 

[1001001]

All the Kelvin movies were ridiculous.

The first and the third ones were also great fun.

 

[fireproof78]

I will always put the Kelvin films above the TNG films. Kirk's arc makes those films incredible.

 

[Klingon Empire]

I call that one 'Into Dumbness'.

I went to see it in theaters and left with a migraine. I used to think the migraine came from the loudness of the film, but I left that movie wondering if I even liked it. Parts were cool, like the opening, but there was so few cool moments to trash moments that I ultimately felt burned by the experience.

 

[Farscape One]

I got to say, the opening of INTO DARKNESS was just plain stupid.

The Enterprise... coming out of the ocean? (Double Picard facepalm.)

Just one of the seemingly endless stupid or ridiculous things in that movie.

 

[Set Harth]

What is stupid about it?

 

[Farscape One]

It's a starship, not the seaQuest.

 

[Set Harth]

So what?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Substitute the sea for a nebula and the crowds of people for a fleet of ships, perhaps.

But some of the fun is in seeing our characters interact with the environment of an alien planet (the volcano, the sea, the flora and fauna) firsthand.

 

[Greg Cox]

You can never malign the nuTrek movies enough.

I don't know. If nothing else, they remembered that Trek is supposed to be fun and exciting, as well as "cerebral" and high-minded.

I loved that they brought back some of the brash, bold energy of the classic Original Series.

 

[Firebird]

The Kelvin timeline films are just fine, though I find the first one doesn't age so well because of a swiss-cheesed script due to the writers' strike.

 

[Greg Cox]

Again, given my knowledge of this person's background, I cannot imagine that he was on board with TNG in 1987. For almost all of the same reasons. (I confess, Jean-Luc never curled up in the captain's chair with a book.)

I loved the business with the chair in SFA because it was fresh and different. It was like Sisko punching Q:

"Picard never hit me!"

"I'm not Picard."

Now, we have:

"Picard never sat like that."

"She's not Picard."

 

[Emissary of the Prophets]

I never have. I have stuck with every series through thick and thin. I may have had a break of a few weeks, but I have then caught up once I had a few banked up.

 

[XCV330]

I never have. I have stuck with every series through thick and thin. I may have had a break of a few weeks, but I have then caught up once I had a few banked up.

Luxury. We had to watch our star trek in a hole in the ground. With only a tarp over our heads.
And we were lucky.

 

[Greg Cox]

Luxury. We had to watch our star trek in a hole in the ground. With only a tarp over our heads.
And we were lucky.

And we only had syndicated reruns for ten years.

(And, okay, a Saturday morning cartoon.)

 

[Set Harth]

We had to watch our star trek in a hole in the ground.

It's all I have.

 

[CoveTom]

My first time really watching anything Star Trek was seeing TVH in the theater in 1986 when I was ten years old, and I enjoyed it but it was a one-off thing. I remember seeing "Encounter at Farpoint" as it aired simply because my cousin was watching it, but I wasn't really hooked or even particularly interested yet.

It would be somewhere around probably 1988 that I truly got hooked on Trek. I started watching TNG during the second season and by the third season was watching it regularly as it aired. I also went back to watch the first four films on VHS. I caught most of TOS in syndicated reruns. And I watched a great deal of the Berman era in first run. All the way through TNG; all the way through DS9; and the early seasons of Voyager.

Somewhere around season 5 of Voyager, I started losing track of Trek. There was a period back then when UPN didn't have full coverage throughout the country, and there were shakeups of which stations were airing what, and for a time, Voyager wasn't available in my area. And I just sort of drifted away and didn't see much of S5+ Voyager until later. I still don't know that I've seen every episode.

I watched the premier of Enterprise the night it aired, but the show never hooked me. I think I've maybe seen three episodes all the way through. Even during the Manny Coto period, what I saw of it just bored me. I could never get hooked.

I saw Star Trek (2009) and Into Darkness in theaters. They were okay. They weren't really for me. I never even bothered to go see Beyond and still haven't seen it to this day.

And when it comes to the streaming era, I've checked in here and there, but nothing has ever "stuck." I've seen episodes of SNW, Lower Decks, and Prodigy. Nothing really grabbed me. I admit, I never even gave Discovery a chance. Nor have I had the interest to watch the Section 31 movie or Starfleet Academy. The only streaming era show I watched from beginning to end was Picard, and that was because of my love for TNG. Season 3 was the only one that truly satisfied me, and the only thing in the streaming era that I really love.

I can still go back and watch TOS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager. They are comfort food. I still love them. Anything after that, beginning with Enterprise and continuing forward, with the lone exception of Picard season 3, just isn't my cup of tea.