I'm out of here!!! I QUIT!!!

[poundpuppy29]

TATV did it to me for a little while because it ruined my 2 Treks that I watched. But I am willing to try again because in my AU it didn't happen it may sound funny but Stargate is what got to that point.

 

[Sector 7]

For me, it was more than just a few episodes. The fact that DS9 was chosen over my series made me bitter towards the whole ST franchise for a while. Hollywood can really screw up a guy...
I still consider DS9 to be an abomination... or perhaps, as some have said, it merely doesn't exist in my Alternate Universe. To be honest, I never was into soap operas and DS9 (and NuBSG) is a soap to me.
By the time Voyager came along, I was in ST withdrawal so even that seemed good to me. If I had the opportunity to do other things, though, I usually did. Later I'd think, "Hmm, I missed Voyager this week."
Enterprise never did anything for me either. I've only caught up on it after joining this board. I started watching it on Sci-Fi Channel.
Currently Trek is dead until the new movie... I'm anxiously awaiting it, but glad they are taking their time to do it right.

 

[UnknownSample]

Moments of extreme discouragement, where I decided all was lost:

After TMP.

Partway during season one of Next Gen. I missed the improvement in season two at first, because I just couldn't watch after season one. What's the TV-viewing equivalent of "traumatization"?

The grinding boredom of Next Gen seasons 4-7.
That was a more drawn-out gradual process of disillusionment.

Biggest time of disillusion-- right now. Trek controlled creatively by a corporation... no one left to keep things on track and fight Paramount. The mangling of the work of great original Trek designers with the "Remastering" ...

Revivals of hope for me:

Wrath of Khan-- despite it mostly being meaningless escapist space battles, things were improving I thought. I was wrong.

"Q Who"--- It dropped on me like a ton of bricks that they were serious about improving NG. Actually, that was the first inkling I ever had, that valid, new "Star Trek" was possible, after the original series. There were two or three greats before that in s2, but I'd been missing most NG ep's until that point.

The energizing, for lack of a better word, of DS9 as it worked its way toward the Dominion War. Season six of DS9 happened simultaneously with season four of Voyager, and things looked hopeful. That was the last such time I think.

 

[PhoenixIreland]

If they screw up the next movie, I won't watch any more movies.

If they make a N.Frontier series I will lick their balls for them in gratitude

 

[By-Product]

Never. No matter how much an episode sucked, I knew that gems were still on the way.

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[By-Product]

... What's the TV-viewing equivalent of "traumatization"? ...

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[Garrett]

Some time during season 4 of Enterprise. I don't remember the exact episode. I had popped in off and on during Enterprise's run to see if it had gotten any better. While it had improved during the fourth season, it seemed like a pale imitation of what had already been done in previous Trek series.

BSG had started around then, and it was doing many of the things I thought were done right at the time. It was hard to go back to the rather formulaic Trek after that.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Some time during season 4 of Enterprise. I don't remember the exact episode. I had popped in off and on during Enterprise's run to see if it had gotten any better. While it had improved during the fourth season, it seemed like a pale imitation of what had already been done in previous Trek series.

BSG had started around then, and it was doing many of the things I thought were done right at the time. It was hard to go back to the rather formulaic Trek after that.

Yep. I do remember that time too. My friend tried to get me back into ENTERPRISE and, you're right, BSG was just so..well...different. I couldn't go back to ENTERPRISE which seemed like another version of TNG-VOY just with new people.

Rob

 

[Therin of Andor]

I started to drift away sometime before NEM. Didn't even bother to see it because of the reviews. Still haven't seen it, not even on DVD.

As a diehard ST fan, I couldn't imagine choosing not to see an instalment of ST, just in case it had some elements I might just like.

 

[Lowdarzz]

Never. I have watched every episode of every Star Trek series and every film multiple times over. Hell, any episode of Trek is better than most of the crap that passes for television programing these days.

The only other shows I watch these days are Stargate: Atlantis and the remake BSG and thats unfortunately only out of habit.

 

[SeanMcC]

I've given up on any future Star Trek.

For me, I'll just fall back on the films, TOS, TNG, DS9 & VGR.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Yes. Just once.

The TNG episode where Worf breaks his spine and it seems that he dies in sickbay. At that moment I was ready to stop watching TNG permanently.

 

[TGTheodore]

I almost stopped watching TNG after "We'll Always Have Paris" and "Angel One".

But since I was pitching to it regularly, I felt I really should keep current. Glad I did.

--Ted