What is your favorite era of Star Trek?

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

For me, there's four eras of Star Trek.
The 1966-86 era when Star Trek was just the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
The 1987-2005 era when Star Trek moved on to spin-off shows: the 90's trilogy (TNG-DS9-VOY) and the prequel (Enterprise).
The 2009-16 era when Star Trek got rebooted as a trilogy of films.
Finally, the 2017-present era, a return to Prime Trek, the streaming era.

Which of these four is your personal favorite era of Star Trek?

 

[King Bob!]

1966-1979. Star Trek, The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, and so many great reference books.

 

[at Quark's]

For me, that's still the Roddenberry-Berman era.

But that's mostly because that was the Star Trek Era that brought me into Star Trek in the first place.

 

[Christmas Dae]

The 90s was the golden age of Trek for me, so anything in and around that era gets my vote.

I'll be interested to see what the end result of this poll is.

 

[drt]

1966-1979. Star Trek, The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, and so many great reference books.

This is for what I have nostalgia love, although I like all of it.

Maybe it's me, but I'd split the TOS movies from TOS/TAS, they're just as different as the other spin-offs. I also know of people for whom that's their Star Trek sweet spot.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Era 1: 101 episodes, 4 movies.
Era 2: 614 episodes, 6 movies.
Era 3: 3 movies.
Era 4: 197 episodes, 15 shorts.

One of these eras has a bit of an advantage in numbers! Then again I suppose it's not so different from the ratio of Classic to Modern Doctor Who episodes, and I'm pretty sure I know which era would get the votes for that franchise.

Personally though, I'm siding with the era that gave me Next Gen, DS9, Star Trek 6 and First Contact.

 

[Captain Tuvok]

For me it's era 2 (Roddenberry-Berman) but it's really tough, because I'm pretty much a fan of all trek

 

[Santa Kang]

TOS

 

[tomalak301]

I grew up in the 90s era and it gives me Nostalgic feels.

 

[MrPicard]

I guess I can't not vote for the era that has TNG. And ENT, which is my second favorite Trek series. So yeah, it gets my vote even though I'm not much of a fan of either DS9 or VOY.

 

[RichMerk]

TOS will always be tops for me, but I'll also take TAS, the first 6 movies, and the first few seasons of TNG. Those days were so free. You could go to a Trek convention and come home with an armload of fan-made technical manuals and language guides and it was all cool. Those were the days before CANON became such a weight on everything. (I also like DS9, but that show was definitely a departure from the old days.)

 

[Ronald Held]

It has to be the TOS era and their movies.

 

[Oddish]

Amazingly, the Roddenberry-Berman era. TNG and DS9 were Ttek at their peak, snd VOY was pretty good as well, despite lousy decisions by the showrunners.

 

[Sim]

The "2nd generation" Trek for me, too.

Although I also love TOS, it shares my #1 spot with TNG and DS9, which are both from the 1987-2005 era (and I also like ENT quite a lot). TNG and DS9 defined the standards of good Star Trek for me, and everything since I measure with that yardstick.

The only show from that era that I didn't enjoy that much, VOY, is still higher on my ranking than DSC.

That said, it doesn't mean I don't like the current "3rd generation" era -- I found PIC okay, like LD a lot, even enjoyed PRO and absolutely love SNW -- but so far, these shows haven't managed to take the same place in my heart as TNG or DS9. Maybe it's the short season format (with just 10 episodes every 1.5 to 2 years, there is just less time for the characters), or maybe it's simply because I'm no teenager anymore. But let's see, maybe SNW will manage to become legendary, if it's allowed to run for several seasons more.

 

[fireproof78]

TOS/TAS Era. It has the greatest sense of anything is possible, and not consumed with needing to be about something; just an adventure in space.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

The "2nd generation" Trek for me, too.

Although I also love TOS, it shares my #1 spot with TNG and DS9, which are both from the 1987-2005 era (and I also like ENT quite a lot). TNG and DS9 defined the standards of good Star Trek for me, and everything since I measure with that yardstick.

The only show from that era that I didn't enjoy that much, VOY, is still higher on my ranking than DSC.

That said, it doesn't mean I don't like the current "3rd generation" era -- I found PIC okay, like LD a lot, even enjoyed PRO and absolutely love SNW -- but so far, these shows haven't managed to take the same place in my heart as TNG or DS9. Maybe it's the short season format (with just 10 episodes every 1.5 to 2 years, there is just less time for the characters), or maybe it's simply because I'm no teenager anymore. But let's see, maybe SNW will manage to become legendary, if it's allowed to run for several seasons more.

I think the short 10-episode season thing came out because streaming, budget, schedules, trying to be cinematic, and because we're in the area where video games and social media compete with TV. People aren't just watching TV at 8pm anymore like in the 90's. Most people I know are gamers and do social media, don't go to the movies, and rarely watch TV. The people who still watch TV/movies as go-to entertainment are now the "mom and dad" crowd mostly, except for the superhero stuff.

 

[Sim]

I think the short 10-episode season thing came out because streaming, budget, schedules, trying to be cinematic, and because we're in the area where video games and social media compete with TV. People aren't just watching TV at 8pm anymore like in the 90's. Most people I know are gamers and do social media, don't go to the movies, and rarely watch TV. The people who still watch TV/movies as go-to entertainment are now the "mom and dad" crowd mostly, except for the superhero stuff.

Yes, it looks like Netflix et al have found it's more profitable for them to produce more and shorter shows to keep their audience, rather than fewer, but longer running shows as on network tv.

Admittedly, most people in my environment are at least 30+, but most of them still watch tv shows -- on streaming, though, not on linear tv. And my impression is, there are still "must see events", but it's usually a short season or miniseries, people aren't really committed to one or few shows anymore.

The production values of new Star Trek are absurd. Looks like the producers feel they want to compete with Star Wars, Marvel and so on ... I miss the days when there was more, but cheaper Star Trek and they had to turn the flaw into a virtue -- in absence of a huge f/x budget, they put more effort into dialogues and storywriting. But I guess those days won't come back.

 

[Forbin]

TOS/Movies first.
TNG (before the movies) second.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Yes, it looks like Netflix et al have found it's more profitable for them to produce more and shorter shows to keep their audience, rather than fewer, but longer running shows as on network tv.

Admittedly, most people in my environment are at least 30+, but most of them still watch tv shows -- on streaming, though, not on linear tv. And my impression is, there are still "must see events", but it's usually a short season or miniseries, people aren't really committed to one or few shows anymore.

The production values of new Star Trek are absurd. Looks like the producers feel they want to compete with Star Wars, Marvel and so on ... I miss the days when there was more, but cheaper Star Trek and they had to turn the flaw into a virtue -- in absence of a huge f/x budget, they put more effort into dialogues and storywriting. But I guess those days won't come back.

It's less a Star Trek thing, more a TV shing. All of the streaming shows are trying to be 10-hour movies, but traditional TV shows. People who "do" watch TV aren't satisfied with two-hour movies anymore, but they don't want to commit to a 10-season episodic show either. What's selling now is the 10-hour miniseries format more or less. I mean, look at Picard. It's not really a series, it's 3 10-part miniseries. Stranger Things, each season plays out like an 8 or 9-episode miniseries "sequel." I can list other shows, but you get the idea.

 

[Lord Garth]

My answer doesn't neatly fit any of the options. It's 1979-1994.

TOS Movies and TNG on TV was the best era. As an added bonus, there were TOS Reruns too.

The 1994-2005 period has oversaturation and varying quality. The 2017+ period is so spread out that it's very pick-and-choose. Great if you're not choosy, not as great if you are.