I stopped watching it when it was removed from *all streaming platforms*
Just restarted season 2 now that I once more have access to it.
Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?
I stopped watching it when it was removed from *all streaming platforms*
Just restarted season 2 now that I once more have access to it.
Wait, are you saying that there aren't any paradoxes in The Voyage Home? Because Kirk's glasses, the formula for transparent aluminum, Chekov leaving behind a shorted-out Klingon phaser (and possibly his Starfleet ID?), and probably others I'm forgetting. And if the Sulu's great-great-grandfather scene had made into the movie, it would've been even worse, paradox-wise.
It's like a cow's opinion. It's moo.
More thinking of the the meaningless side. The Whale Probe wasn't sorted by Kirk going back in time a week and intercepting it, from the point of view of Sarek and Chapel, Kirk approached Earth and a few minutes later had whales in the cargo container. It wasn't meaningless, but it wasn't a "do-over".
Generations is one where time-travel was used for a "do-over", which makes things somewhat less consequential. The doover was more akin to the Omega-13 from Star Trek 10, a short period of travel measured in minutes, rather than say Spock taking the Jellyfish back in time 4 weeks after leaving Vulcan to give him plenty of time to deliver the Red Matter, but I agree those aren't as good.
Litverse suggested that Chekov's "leavings" were cleaned up by Gary Seven, and I don't see anything to contractict that. We do know in Trek that time tends to heal itself into the same direction and is immune to butterfly effect. Sisko going back to the Bell Riots didn't change anything despite not being a pre-destination paradox (the photo of Bell was not always Sisko, otherwise Sisko would have known)
All the live action I have watched all the way through. I never missed an episode from TNG through mid season Voyager. I was in college and missed a few episodes that I watch years later. But it wasn't intentional. I did miss a good chunk of Enterprise season 3. I enjoyed Enterprise enough but Trek fatigue was setting in at that point. I was in my early 30's and probably doing other things that I missed those episodes.. think it was during the xindi arc. I watched those mised episodes 15 years later when I rewatched the whole show. But I did watch season 4 all the way through first airing.
Back during Voyager and Entperise it was still hard to rewatch stuff if you missed them first airing , short of buying the DVDs . But I never gave up on the shows. They were just missed because of life.
I watched all of Disco, Picard, SNW and SFA. I don't love any of those shows on the same level as pre streaming but as a long time Trek fan I feel I'm obligated to watch them. I did delay watching some of Disco but that is the streaming era so it's easy to catch up now.
As much as i think SFA has mostly been not to good. I will still watch season 2 and season 4 and 5 of SNW. Though I'm not to enthusiastic about them right now. But again I'm a Trek fan so I feel I need to at least complete the live action stuff.
The cartoons I did watch a bit of prodigy before they took it off. LD didn't interest me. It was pretty stupid. But I'm not really into cartoon stuff for either Star Trek or Star Wars. They churn out too much of that stuff.
Back during Voyager and Entperise it was still hard to rewatch stuff if you missed them first airing , short of buying the DVDs . But I never gave up on the shows. They were just missed because of life.
I watched all of Disco, Picard, SNW and SFA. I don't love any of those shows on the same level as pre streaming but as a long time Trek fan I feel I'm obligated to watch them. I did delay watching some of Disco but that is the streaming era so it's easy to catch up now.
As much as i think SFA has mostly been not to good. I will still watch season 2 and season 4 and 5 of SNW. Though I'm not to enthusiastic about them right now. But again I'm a Trek fan so I feel I need to at least complete the live action stuff.
The cartoons I did watch a bit of prodigy before they took it off. LD didn't interest me. It was pretty stupid. But I'm not really into cartoon stuff for either Star Trek or Star Wars. They churn out too much of that stuff.
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On reflection I realise that I haven't watched DSC 5, LDS 5, SNW 3, the back end of PRO and anything from SFA. I didn't consciously give up on them, I just haven't bothered (and I think maybe I never will?).
I feel in 2026 that I have started to fall out of love with Star Trek generally and started a greater focus on non-TV related hobbies.
I feel in 2026 that I have started to fall out of love with Star Trek generally and started a greater focus on non-TV related hobbies.
I think it's more a matter of what you want to spend your time on, rather than a lack of love. Life moves on, and so must we, and deal with new challenges.
I'm in a really happy place in life right now and a large part of that has come from not turning the television on.
I enjoy talking about Star Trek on this forum more than I enjoy actually watching Star Trek.
No, but I've come close three times: TAS, PRO, and SFA. I powered through, and in Prodigy's case, I came to enjoy the series somewhat more so over time.
I enjoyed SFA's first episode, then felt less keen on the second and third. The fourth was a step up, but I was thoroughly excited for the fifth. When it left me far colder than I had anticipated, that was when I almost stopped watching. But I got past it, and... yeah. I don't like the show but I don't hate it either.
I enjoyed SFA's first episode, then felt less keen on the second and third. The fourth was a step up, but I was thoroughly excited for the fifth. When it left me far colder than I had anticipated, that was when I almost stopped watching. But I got past it, and... yeah. I don't like the show but I don't hate it either.
Same here.
I've been hoping I'm not there yet, and I'm just too busy to play a Blu-ray. But surely I'll still enjoy watching it when the right day comes. Same for Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone Blu's. It would hurt to lose them, but I can't seem to get to them.
Oh, I’ll come back around. Hopefully I’ve got a few decades in me yet and, as they say, I never say never.
Just not in that space right now. The possibility that I’ll go the rest of my life and never watch TOS/TNG again is non-existent. The rest of it… up in the air, but not impossible.
I watched the whole thing as a child, there's no way I would have ever made it through all 200ish episodes now.
I rewatch TOS and TNG episodes every year. Don't even remember the last time I've rewatched any of the others outside of Trials and Tribble-ations or In the Pale Moonlight once in a while.
I wrote that bit -- after carefully carefully rewatching my VHS copy of the whale movie to confirm that, yes, Chekov did indeed leave his gear behind.
Just to make sure I hadn't remembered wrong.
The original pitch and early draft of the script had the Borg going back to the Midieval time period.
^^^
But of course it was changed.
He beamed in wearing only his surgical butt-gown. Clothes made of unknown synthetics, metals of strange alloys, depleted phaser, communicator...all left behind for 3 letter agencies to reverse engineer. Kirk might have just as well offered us a cut of the deal and saved time...
In my book, Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln quietly removed those items before they could do any harm.
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