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

[bdub76]

I initially gave up on Voyager when Kes left.

I initially stopped watching TNG around season 5, but I did watch the finale live.

This happens with a lot of shows. You get burnt out on them and want something fresh.

I'm currently in a long binge watch of B5, but I'm not watching an episode every day.

 

[XCV330]

It's all I have.

the J'onn reference we didn't know we needed. thank you.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

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 had to hold the antenna in just the right position with our foil ball and coat hanger extension attached.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

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.

We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to watch our Star Trek in a lake.

 

[CoveTom]

I had to walk 12 miles in the snow, uphill to see "Code of Honor." And I was still grateful.

 

[XCV330]

We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to watch our Star Trek in a lake.

you try to tell that to the young trekkies of today, and they won't believe you

 

[Tallguy]

Four Yorkshiremen is getting a good workout.

 

[Gepard]

Dropped Enterprise during season 2 when it became clear the season wasn't going to improve. (I did go back and catch up on S3 and S4 when the show hit Netflix, and while they are improvements, I still don't think either season is great.)

Stopped watching Discovery mid-season 3, right after the MU two-parter. The cynical setup for the obvious Georgeau spinoff got under my skin, adding irritation to a season I wasn't enjoying all that much to begin with.

And while I wouldn't say I've "given up on it," since I was never planning to commit to watching it, the pilot for Starfleet Academy made it pretty clear I'm not in the demographic the show is aiming for, and the whole thing feels like it passed me by.

 

[Planet of the Daves]

I gave up modern Trek after 2 or 3 episodes of Discovery and 2 episodes of Picard. Last straw: they weren't good. Also, the swearing. I curse crazy if I stub a toe or something, but don't put it in my Trek!

 

[Set Harth]

What if a Star Trek character stubs their toe?

 

[korblborp]

I'm currently in a long binge watch of B5, but I'm not watching an episode every day.

on year 2 of my latest b5 run, in the middle of s3. previous several times i have gone through it in a week or two. slowboating a TOS rewatch as well.

 

[I am not Spock]

Never. I've watched them all. Stuck with the franchise through sickness and health for over 30 years.

There were a couple of times where i struggled. First couple of seasons of ENT were rough going, but i've since rewatched them and there are some gems there.

The last couple of seasons of Disco i struggled with, but they're not all bad.

 

[CaptChris42]

I gave up modern Trek after 2 or 3 episodes of Discovery and 2 episodes of Picard. Last straw: they weren't good. Also, the swearing. I curse crazy if I stub a toe or something, but don't put it in my Trek!

Sadly, even Academy, the one series you'd expect not to have, or need it - apparently has incorporated swearing.

 

[Tallguy]

Sadly, even Academy, the one series you'd expect not to have, or need it - apparently has incorporated swearing.

It is paradoxically the series that would be the most likely to have it in "real life" and the show that should NOT have it. I've said elsewhere (recently): I think that Star Trek should never be written for eight year olds. But it should always be made so that eight year olds can watch it.

This, of all shows, should be a new generation's gateway drug to Star Trek.

 

[Timewalker]

The first series I watched in "real time" (from premier to finale) was TNG.

It was a wild premier for me. I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism at the time, and the day of the premier coincided with one of our shire's annual tournaments and feasts. My job was to collect the fees and sell drink tickets, so I couldn't miss it. Plus we had the King and Queen visiting all the way from wherever they were from in Washington state and they hardly ever made it out to this part of the kingdom. So missing the feast was really out of the question.

However, the only member of our shire who actually had a house with a living room large enough to accommodate a bunch of people had taped Encounter at Farpoint (VCR era). After the feast (and after we'd cleaned up the church hall), she invited everyone over to her place to watch it.

Most of us were still wearing our medieval costumes. So I watched Encounter at Farpoint with a roomful of people in medieval garb from several different centuries, and the only two people allowed to sit on chairs were the King and Queen. The rest of us sat on the floor. I remember some of us just about crying when McCoy showed up. And it was pretty much agreed by everyone that Q must be Trelaine "all grown up."

Well, we turned out to be wrong about that. But it was the most fun series premier I ever had.

 

[DonIago]

The first series I watched in "real time" (from premier to finale) was TNG.

It was a wild premier for me. I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism at the time, and the day of the premier coincided with one of our shire's annual tournaments and feasts. My job was to collect the fees and sell drink tickets, so I couldn't miss it. Plus we had the King and Queen visiting all the way from wherever they were from in Washington state and they hardly ever made it out to this part of the kingdom. So missing the feast was really out of the question.

However, the only member of our shire who actually had a house with a living room large enough to accommodate a bunch of people had taped Encounter at Farpoint (VCR era). After the feast (and after we'd cleaned up the church hall), she invited everyone over to her place to watch it.

Most of us were still wearing our medieval costumes. So I watched Encounter at Farpoint with a roomful of people in medieval garb from several different centuries, and the only two people allowed to sit on chairs were the King and Queen. The rest of us sat on the floor. I remember some of us just about crying when McCoy showed up. And it was pretty much agreed by everyone that Q must be Trelaine "all grown up."

Well, we turned out to be wrong about that. But it was the most fun series premier I ever had.

Hey, SCA recognize! Though when EaF aired I was still a few years away from even being aware of its existence. I was still in high school at the time. While touring college campuses with my mom we came across a few people doing what to me looked like live-action Dungeons and Dragons (hey, at least I didn't ask them if they were in a play!). I didn't end up going to that school, but a couple of years later at the college I'd ended up at I saw a few people doing something similar and yep, SCA.

I've been on SCAbattical now for longer than I was active, having distanced myself for various reasons, but I certainly have memories, of both the good and bad kind.

 

[1001001]

And it was pretty much agreed by everyone that Q must be Trelaine "all grown up."

Well, we turned out to be wrong about that.

Pretty close, though.

Did you all gather again for Q-Pid?

 

[Turtletrekker]

Meh. The swearing in Star Trek doesn't bother me in the slightest, and in fact makes it feel more real for me. People swear. They always have and they always will. A Roddenberry script for the original series had what was considered swearing back in that era, and a first season TNG script had Picard swearing in French. Even Data swore in Generations. The lack of so-called offensive language in Star Trek had more to do with studio standards that anything else. Roddenberry would occasionally poke the studio bear, but Berman was more concerned with producing a sanitized product.

 

[FredH]

Does watching less than a minute of a preview for Scouts, saying “no fricking way” and never watching the actual show count as walking away from a series?

 

[Tallguy]

People swear.

People poop.