Who actually stopped watching at one point?

[Lord Garth]

Being a teenager at the time, I had the stupid idea that if I gave up Star Trek I'd be a cool kid.

You'll like this story, then. Right before I started high school, in 1993, my uncle wanted to show me Beverly Hills 90210, so I could see what high school was like.

I kid you not. I was rolling my eyes at the idea he had in his head even back then...

 

[The Wormhole]

None of those shows really reflect what high school/teenage years are really like anyway. Not 90210, not Dawson's Creek in my day, and not whatever is aimed at the younglings today.

 

[Tosk]

TNG from day one, watched everything until season 4 or 5 of Voyager, then stopped. Tried Enterprise for a few episodes, dropped it too.

Have now seen everything (sans most of TAS) since.

 

[Stephen!]

I didn't watch much of Enterprise when it first aired. Also with the collapse of ITV Digital, we no longer had Sky One and parents were content with Freeview after that. Although I did watch two episodes of season 2 at the time, since someone taped me copies of "Regeneration" and "The Expanse".

 

[Daddy Todd]

Watched everything (including hate-watching Voyager till the bitter end). Watched the first two seasons of Enterprise, but bailed after the first episode of season three. Eventually went back and watched season four, but have never been able to force myself to watch season three.

Maybe one day I'll be bored enough to pop it in. Maybe.

 

[Nightdiamond]

I half watched Voyager, but still watched till the finale.

I got through only the first episode of Enterprise. And halfway at that. I just couldn't watch it anymore afterwards.

TAS, I always plan to watch it, but never seem to get to it. TAS--- the show that was always there but you've never seen it.

 

[JRTStarlight]

TAS was a Saturday morning cartoon offering and I was still the right age in 73 to watch them originally air. I don't know who shows them anymore, but Amazon usually has it. 4 disc set, all 22 episodes, currently $13. For a Trek fan, I'd recommend them, but if you ever gave up on any Trek series, these are not that great, and were meant for an younger audience, anyway.

But see a clip example for yourself if you never have.

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[Nerys Myk]

I faded out during Voyager somewhere in Season Four. Occasionally checked out an episode, but it was no longer a weekly "appointment". There are many episodes I've never seen. Came back for Enterprise.

 

[Nightdiamond]

TAS was a Saturday morning cartoon offering and I was still the right age in 73 to watch them originally air. I don't know who shows them anymore, but Amazon usually has it. 4 disc set, all 22 episodes, currently $13. For a Trek fan, I'd recommend them, but if you ever gave up on any Trek series, these are not that great, and were meant for an younger audience, anyway.

But see a clip example for yourself if you never have.

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The funny thing about TAS is that it was kind of deep, from what I've seen of it. It had a more serious tone, the background music was more quiet. It was the animation style of the time, but it was hard to tell if it was for kids or adults, which is a good thing.

It was always the cartoon I've always seen but never watched. Definitely have to watch it someday.

 

[CRM-114]

I did stop watching during ENT season three. I felt like the Xindi arc was going nowhere, though I did see part of one episode of the T'Pau mini-arc during season four.

It took the first news of ST09 to get me back into Star Trek. In the few years I walked away from Trek, I got into Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, and The Prisoner.

 

[Ithekro]

I stopped watching VOY in its seventh season and missed parts of the first season of ENT. However this was not intentional. This was because UPN switched over from analog to digital satellite signals so the dish we had at the time could rarely find UPN anymore, or even feed for UPN. We had no cable and the nearest UPN station was on the other side of the hill.

 

[JRTStarlight]

Sir, The UPN Broadcast Signal Is Coming In Weak.
We've Even Lost All Color Information. Furthermore,
Even You Don't Look Quite Right To Me.

 

[Maurice]

I burned out on TNG early in season 4 when I realized what Star Trek had evolved into didn't connect with me. I watched a handful of episodes of each of the later series and found them similarly unengaging. I've seen all the movies, but the TNG ones like only once each. I think my tastes grew away from what it grew into, albeit I still have an affection for TOS and a kind of love-hate relationship with TMP.

 

[Timewalker]

Was going to say that I've watched every Trek show religiously, then remembered that I've only seen a handful of the animated episodes..

What can I say? I'd grown out of watching Saturday morning cartoons when it first aired, so I missed it on its original run. And it wasn't considered "canon" at the time I started writing the books, so there was never any reason to go back and research it . . . .

Most of them aren't that memorable (or memorable for the wrong reasons, such as they rely on a stupid gimmick or the story is just poorly written).

But you should at least watch Yesteryear. I also recommend The Counter-Clock Incident and Albatross (the latter is an excellent McCoy episode; he's accused of genocide and Spock has to figure out how to exonerate him).


I gave up on Enterprise at some point in the first season. I just plain didn't like any of it. To this day I haven't seen all of it, though I did make a point of watching the Mirror Universe story. That one wasn't bad. Well, mostly.

It's been a long time since I've seen any of the TV series, with the exception of a couple of TNG episodes I watched last year on Netflix (just killing some time and that's what was available). My Star Trek episode fix has been fulfilled by the fan films, and I'm following some really excellent fanfic stories on various sites.

I used to get all the novels that came out, but have literally run out of room. So I had to make some tough decisions, and the winners are the TOS and Voyager novels.


Apparently CBS All-Access will be coming to Canada, but it's going to have to offer a lot more than just Star Trek to get me to subscribe. I don't even subscribe to Space (since walking away from Doctor Who, why bother?).

 

[SPCTRE]

I'll stop

 

[The Old Mixer]

I don't know who shows them anymore

Heroes & Icons plays two episodes a week on Sunday evening; and Netflix has it on streaming in the US.

I've tried watching it a couple times over the years...I could never get through much of it.

 

[Ethros]

at the time i thought the borg showing up in the 22nd century was unforgivable.
i was wrong though. regeneration is a standout episode and enterprise holds up pretty damn well in hindsight.

Same, I'd already stopped watching I think and I remember reading the news that Borg were gonna be appearing in a future episode. I remember overreacting and posting on here actually saying something like "this is it, this shows how lazy B&B are, this show will never get any better now" haha. When in fact it turned out to be a great episode among plenty of duff ones. Oh well, I was only 18. I've since matured and chilled a lot, and after watching the various documentaries on the TNG & ENT blu rays have huge respect for what B&B did, and how more often than not they weren't the ones to blame at all.

 

[suarezguy]

I started watching DS9 and Voyager in late 1996 or early 1997 (and TNG reruns soon after too) and watched regularly to the end, stopped watching regularly midway through Enterprise Season 1 after "Fusion" and completely after its "Precious Cargo" except for a couple of episodes from season 4.

 

[Paul Weaver]

I stopped watching Enterprise during the first run because of the hassles of finding a good DCC source on IRC to download it from. I missed a fair few Voyager episodes because of the archaic way we consumed TV in those days (believe it or not, you had to sit down at a specific time of the week to watch it, or at most program a VCR to begin at a specific time, and hope your satellite receiver was on the right channel. This was several months, if not years, after the episode had been discussed on trekbbs too)

 

[2takesfrakes]

The later seasons of DS9 with all that Dominion War shite is not a plus for me. Not that I don't like war stories, or whatever, but it was just not that interesting for any number of reasons. Not enough money was ever spent on it, for one thing. And it just went on and on, even after it lost its novelty. And the Seventh Season is hard to take, without the beautiful and exciting Jadzia at the Science Station. Not to take from Ezri, at all, but for me, DS9 is Jadzia ... Jadzia is DS9. Rick Berman should've let her stay on, even in a reduced capacity, as she requested. He hurt the series, taking Terry's decision to take on other work on another show so damn personally. It's like what killing Spock off would've been to TOS had Nimoy been fired. It just ruins everything ... which is what happened with DS9, after Jadzia's unfortunate demise & departure.