When Did You Fall In and Out Of Love With Trek

[Neutral Zone]

I've loved Trek since I first saw TOS in Britain the first time round. I wouldn't say that I've ever truly fell out of love with the Trek world but there have been times when the interest had dfimmed. Impatience betweeb the series didn't help either waiting for trhe season or new series altogether. The first showing of Enterprise was the closest I've come to givng up Trek, but after watching it a few times it has grown on me.

 

[StalwartUK]

Enterprise diminished my interest in the franchise for a few years but I got back into it after it ended.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Been in love with Trek since the late 60s. Cooled off a bit with Voyager but then got hot again, I'm still in love.

 

[DarKush]

I fell in after ABC showed several of the TOS movies back to back, every Sunday night. I got hooked after watching Wrath of Khan. It was solidified after reading the Final Frontier novelization and watching TNG and TOS back to back episodes while doing my homework. I think the highpoints for me were Best of Both Worlds, All Good Things, the Dominion War. I started falling out of love after DS9 ended and I almost gave up during the first two seasons of ENT. I hung in there and I think ENT redeemed itself with its last two seasons, but still the old feeling wasn't there. I enjoyed JJ Abrams Trek quite a bit, and I hope it will revitalize the franchise, but I don't have the same feeling.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I felt that Trek had stopped moving forward and could only duplicate or copy TOS from here on out.

That is a really interesting point - my apologies to you if I've taken it out of context.

But even if I have, I've been thinking about this a lot and I was wondering what people's views where around the idea that each new incarnation must either go forward in terms of the time in which it is set.

All this going backwards stuff (Enterprise) is going to be picked to death in terms of canon and rejected by the core fan base or, or if it remains in the same era as TNG, it just turns into a soap opera (DS9 and Voyager).

In my case, it wasn't so much about the era--heck, I wished Series V had been a "Lost Generation" set between Star Trek VI and TNG--but more of a sense that Trek was now going to continually repackage or recycle TOS from now on.

 

[Alienesse]

I've never really fallen out of love with Star Trek. I took a prolonged break at one point, but I haven't yet reached a state of Trek fatigue or disappointment (and I hope I never do).

For me, the spark that started the fire was TNG. I was in my early teens when it started airing on local TV and it was my first exposure to Trek. It didn't take long for me to fall in love with it. When it ended and DS9 began, I couldn't watch the new series because it felt too far removed from what I'd gotten used to with TNG. So I forgot about all things Trek until about two years ago, when I happened to catch an episode of TNG on AXN. I also saw a documentary hosted by William Shatner about how Star Trek changed the world, impressed me greatly. That was the moment when I decided to give Trek a second chance and, the more I watched, the more fascinated I became. I've seen all the series and all the movies. There are some weak spots here and there, but I can't really say I've been disappointed enough to lose interest.

 

[Shanndee]

I fell in love with Trek in the late 70's. I was in elementary school and my friend was at my house for a sleep over. We watched my favourite show, Space:1999, and when it was over she said "if you like this I think you'll like my show, its called Star Track". Yes, Track. I did say we were in elementary school right?

I didn't fall out of love, but I definitely took a break due to Trek fatigue. Having TNG, DS9, and Voyager all on the air at the same was too much for me. I felt there was a decrease in quality with so many balls in the air. DS9 was my show, and when it concluded I didn't think about Trek again until the 2009 movie. It brought me back to the fold, and I am enjoying my rediscovery of an old favourite.

 

[RandyS]

I fell in love with Star Trek in 1970, the year I was born, at least according to my mom, who got me into it, and never fell out of love with it.

And never will.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I first encountered Trek while hospitalized in 1992: I'd dislocated my elbow and fractured my arm, so they put me to bed for three weeks with my arm in a sling. I couldn't read, so I watched a lot of TV -- old-time sitcoms during the day, and Star Trek at night. A few years later I embraced the title of Star Trek fan because they were nerds and outcasts and I identified with nerds and outcasts. Then I started watching Deep Space Nine and I REALLY fell for Trek. I've never grown disillusioned with it, in part because DS9 was the only show I was able to watch live. With the rest, I could only watch episodes at friends' homes or on vacation, that kind of thing. Not until the last five years or so did I have the money to start purchasing DVD sets.

 

[The Wormhole]

First fell in love with Trek back when I was 8 (1993) and I first began watching TNG, though I quickly moved onto TOS and DS9.

I first fell out of love with Trek in 1999. DS9 had ended, and I wasn't too impressed with Voyager at the time, so I gave up Trek all together. By 2001 I started to yearn for it again, began catching up on what I missed of Voyager, started watching Enterprise and eventually I was immersing myself in the world of Trek again.

However, by 2003 I was starting to get fed up with Enterprise. Though I continued watching it, like many others I began shifting loyalties to another sci-fi franchise, Stargate. I tried giving up on Trek again in 2005 after Enterprise ended, though this time I embraced the franchise again in 2006 and haven't really left since. Even though XI was a disappointment, I still watch, enjoy, and love everything else Trek. I've even developed an appreciation for Voyager and Enterprise after all these years.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Fell in love with TNG in the 1990's. Have never fallen out of love, though there are some parts of Star Trek (Voyager comes to mind) that I don't enjoy.

 

[Kelthaz]

I think it's more accurate to say that my Star Trek love is on hold. We've had some rough times and we agreed to give each other some space to sort some things out, but we fully intend to rekindle our relationship at a later date.

 

[plynch]

TOS TLA

As for the rest, "fell out" upon watching DS9 in order. It wasn't as good as I remembered. Now all but TOS I can take or leave.

 

[Paradon]

After watching "Enterprise" I lost interest... I think they really need to develop the characters more so everybody can relate to them and do a good story telling.

I also think they need humor in the story. I think people can relate to that better because that's how people are in real life...not some stuck up captain that seems more alien than the aliens. [chuckle]

 

[Lowdarzz]

I started watching Trek in the late 80's when TSFS aired on ABC before TNG premiered. I've watched every episode of every series and every film and continue to catch them in repeats and on DVD.

 

[Caesar753]

I fell in love with Star Trek the first time I saw it. I watched Encounter at Farpoint when it first aired in 1987. I was only seven at the time, but new I loved this thing called Star Trek.

 

[Anji]

My parents were Star Trek fans and I watched it with them as a child back in 1966. I've been a fan ever since.

Things became difficult with the premere of DS9, which I thought was too far away from the Trek philosophy and even worse with VOY. I saw only the piolet for DS9 and didn't watch Trek again until ENT....which also disappointed me but not as much.

I've been highly critical of it since ENT but that is because I care for it so much.

 

[Transk53]

About 19:76 was when I first came accross Trek. you actually felt like you were on the Enterprise when you closed your eyes. It was a magical time..... Years later when TNG first aired in Blighty, that magic was tainted beyond belief. Patrick Stewart was was very good eventually and Brent Spiner. I thought the rest were so so (in terms of character). Troi though was pointless, Kirk would have spaced her.

DS9 came to rescue (And B5) and that magic came back from the deep underground place that TNG sunk into. Then it ended until 2009 in terms of that childhood magic.

 

[Newton]

In the early nineties, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, watching TNG on TV and renting episodes from the video store. I stopped watching Trek towards the end of DS9 and only a couple of seasons into VOY, because as a teenager I had other things on my mind. I started to get back into it about 2009. I am now catching up on all the episodes I missed.

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

Fell in live with Trek with TOS reruns after school in the 70s. Ate, slept and breathed the stuff. Got into the zines just before STTMP and stumbled across K/S. Almost fell out of love but mellowed and let people think of me whatever they want to. Almost fell out of love again when Spock (my favorite character) died in STTWOK. TNG started slow but stayed withg it out of loyalty to Trek. It got better by year 3. Same with DS9. VOY and ENT had my interest waning with duller stories and uninteresting characters by the Trek loyalty prevailed. Started to get more insight into these over the years but nothing is as strong as my connection to TOS. Excited that they went back to TOS characters in 2009 but didn't care for the reboot to the alternate timeline. Abrams may have brought what he loved about Trek to his movie but he didn't bring what I care for. Spock is the "humanized" Vulcan with a love interest in Uhura not the alien Vulcan with the strange ways of pon farr from "Amok Time." Kirk is theb stereotypical daredevil and not the Hornblower-type captain in the beginning who found his strength of command through his two "shoulder-angels" Spock and McCoy which led him to being more brazen later in the 5-year mission. So many of those nuances that I loved about the original show appear to be missing to me in the Abramsverse. I see it as taming the characters to appeal to a broader audience...and losing the appeal that made it attractive in the first place. Now it seems (to me) as just another mainstream show that's going to get lost in the crowd. It'll probably catch up with him by the 3rd or 4th movie and start tanking like Nemesis did at the end. But I don't care anymore. I take the shows, books, whatever that I like and add it to my own personal Trekverse and ignore what I don't like anymore. There's plenty out there to choose from. Who cares if it's canon. All I have to do is please myself...and I know what I like.