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

[Mage]

Honestly, it isn't "good", but it isn't as bad as I thought it would be based on the advertising and interviews. Much like a lot of the Kurtzman era, it has some interesting concepts, but fumbles the execution.

I have three weeks of actual me time and focusing on me and mental health coming up. I might just binge all of season 1.

 

[Brannigan]

After doing a fairly intensive systematic watch of ENT, TOS, TAS, the TOS movies, TNG, and DS9, I started on Voyager, but stopped I think after “Resolutions” very near the end of season 2. No straw that broke the camel’s back, but I wasn’t enthralled and perhaps had overdosed on Star Trek at that point. A friend of mine said Voyager got better once Seven of Nine arrived - maybe someday I’ll give it another try.

I did a similar thing only starting with The Cage and working my way through VOY.
Yes by the time I got to VOY i was feeling Star Trek Burnout. I finished it and was glad I did. There was some good episodes and Ill take VOY any day over streaming Trek.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

not given up just yet

 

[Anduinel]

VOY - I've tried to get into it four different times, at three different points in the show. People whose taste I trust keep telling me it's great. But I just keep bouncing off.

ENT - Watched the pilot when it aired, noped out.

DISC: Dropped it after S4; got tired of the inconsistent quality.

I won't see the rest of SNW or any of Academy, but that's more to do with deciding the P+ sub wasn't worth the money than the quality of the shows.

 

[Scale Icons]

Over the years I've given up on several Trek series, the first being DS9 during its original run. Yes, yes, yes...dark, themes of war, continuing story lines. But at the time, I was hooked on B5 and found the comparison between the two to be lacking on the Trek side.

I gave up on Voyager around season 3? 4? Basically, when every episode seemed to be a variation of "the holodeck is malfunctioning". The whole series really felt like one giant missed opportunity.

Most recently, I gave up on Discovery in season 3. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two seasons, in spite of the controversial artistic choices everyone always cites. What killed my interest was resetting the series in the far future, which really disengaged me from caring about the plots.

And no, I never got around to watching Starfleet Academy or Prodigy.

Tim

 

[DonIago]

FWIW, despite some bloat, I think S4 is the best DISCO gets. Give it a try sometime, if you'd like.

 

[cooleddie74]

Give up? No. But very early DS9, big chunks of VOY, long stretches of DSC Seasons 1 and 2 and the second year of PIC made me seriously consider pretending those shows didn't exist. I never totally give up on a Trek series, but my enthusiasm has nosedived and precipitously.

 

[cooleddie74]

FWIW, despite some bloat, I think S4 is the best DISCO gets. Give it a try sometime, if you'd like.

It's got the most Treklike, intelligent story arc of any of the arc-focused streaming Trek seasons. Species 10-C was the closest to the spirit of the unknown and truly bizarre that most modern Trek has gotten.

 

[Lord Garth]

I did a similar thing only starting with The Cage and working my way through VOY.
Yes by the time I got to VOY i was feeling Star Trek Burnout. I finished it and was glad I did. There was some good episodes and Ill take VOY any day over streaming Trek.

I got burned out on TNG/VOY-style Star Trek by 1999. And DS9 just happened to end... in 1999.

Now that I'm doing the Re-Watch Threads and am basically re-living the '90s Trek experience (except at twice the speed of Real Time), we'll see if burnout happens this time around.

 

[BillJ]

And no, I never got around to watching Starfleet Academy or Prodigy.

SFA is mediocre, Prodigy is just great Star Trek.

 

[fireproof78]

And no, I never got around to watching Starfleet Academy or Prodigy.

Don't blame you.

 

[Frontis]

I gave up on DISCO already in season 1, just couldn't watch it anymore.

 

[cooleddie74]

SFA is mediocre, Prodigy is just great Star Trek.

I disagree about SFA but yeah, PRO is pretty great Trek. Easily the second best show of the streaming era.