Is it time to put Star Trek to rest?

[XCV330]

Star Trek went through some "me time" around 2005-2009, trying out meditation, joining Old Franchises Anonymous, trying a healthier diet, and commiting to taking time to reflect on what it did all day before going to bed. But by 2009 it was out of money and reduced to siphoning gas out of other people's tanks to keep the Harley it bought on credit running to the next town where its third gf Mitzi lived and it could get a gig playing reruns for a few beers and avoid the repo man one more month. Things had to change so it made the call to J .J. Abrams with a promise that THIS time it was going to clean itself up.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

"Star Trek. When will it end?"
"Never."

As a younger kid, the concept of even BLISSFUL eternity freaked me out severely, particularly at night.

The thought of eternal TREK may be comforting, and for now, it's the current case.
But I submit that eternal TREK is.....unnecessary.

Like Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT characters, we'll still memorize all the TOS dialogue, quite likely until the end of time. Perhaps that's sufficient.

 

[Lord Garth]

As a younger kid, the concept of even BLISSFUL eternity freaked me out severely, particularly at night.

The thought of eternal TREK may be comforting, and for now, it's the current case.
But I submit that eternal TREK is.....unnecessary.

Continuing eternally is unnecessary.

Just giving my read of the situation. I expect the current production era to end sooner or later, another one will start up, rinse, repeat.

Even right now, David Ellison seems to really want to get the Star Trek movies out of limbo. Will I like whatever those movies are? If it's another Kelvin Movie, probably not. Something else? Who knows. I'll only watch something it if interests me.

I think people should only watch something if they want to watch it. As soon as they're only watching it because they think feel like they have to, to be part of the conversation, or they're only watching it out of habit, or just to be completionists, or whatever, they should stop.

At the end of the day, we vote with our views. And whether or not something should continue should be determined by how many are watching. Someone who keeps watching something they that think should stop is shooting themselves in the foot. They're helping to continue something they want to stop. Which is why I'm against the whole concept of hate-watching or "watching just so I have an opinion!"

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

After VOYAGER ended, I was no longer a constant weekly watcher of TREK. Before that, I wasn't able to catch the middle years of DS9 or the 2nd-4th VOYAGER years. I missed two TNG episodes on first-run, though I could (should?) have bailed out of far more of them.

 

[Lord Garth]

After VOYAGER ended, I was no longer a constant weekly watcher of TREK. Before that, I wasn't able to catch the middle years of DS9 or the 2nd-4th VOYAGER years. I missed two TNG episodes on first-run, though I could (should?) have bailed out of far more of them.

I watched from 1991 (when I discovered Star Trek) to 1999. Stopped watching after DS9 ended, though I finally finished VOY in 2008. Caught up with TOS and the first half of TNG through reruns.

For New Trek, I watched all of Discovery and Picard (I know, I know... ), and none of the rest really grabbed me. So, 2017 to 2024.

Seems like Star Trek can't keep me for more than seven or eight years at a time!

 

[Set Harth]

I for one cosign what RedLetterMedia's Mike once remarked about pre-Abrams Trek: "Star Trek used to have its head up its ass... but that's what we fans liked about it."

Birds of a feather, and all that.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Simpsons is a show that really should have been put to rest many, many years ago.

 

[Lord Garth]

The Simpsons is a show that really should have been put to rest many, many years ago.

That I think we can all agree with!