The new series have not ruined anything for me. I still love what I always loved.
My wife and I watched every episode of Picard as it aired. Mostly simply due to our affection for TNG. Picard is certainly not my favorite series, but I watched it. I thought season 1 was awful, 2 was decent, and 3 was spectacular.
Other than that, I really don't watch the modern Trek. It's just not my cup of tea (Earl Grey, hot). I saw the first two Abramsverse movies in the theater, but I haven't even seen Beyond yet. (That was the first Trek film since TVH that I didn't see in the theater.) I've seen a couple episodes of SNW. A couple of Lower Decks. Not even a full episode of Discovery or Prodigy. For that matter, I've only seen a couple episodes of Enterprise.I don't anticipate I'll be watching the Section 31 film or the Starfleet Academy series.
Those shows just don't appeal to me. I don't find them offensive or anything. They're not ruining my childhood. I'm just not interested. They're not "my" Star Trek. My Trek runs from TOS through Voyager and ends there.
Yes, of course, I wish they would make Trek now that appealed to me. And I'll moan and complain about the fact that they don't. And I was happy that Picard season 3 seemed to be trying to please my generation of fandom. That aside, though, I know that my era of Trek is over. But I also realize that I've got something like a thousand hours of Trek from my era of the franchise that I can watch anytime I want. And if people like the new stuff, fine. I don't understand why these battles cause so much animosity.
My wife and I watched every episode of Picard as it aired. Mostly simply due to our affection for TNG. Picard is certainly not my favorite series, but I watched it. I thought season 1 was awful, 2 was decent, and 3 was spectacular.
Other than that, I really don't watch the modern Trek. It's just not my cup of tea (Earl Grey, hot). I saw the first two Abramsverse movies in the theater, but I haven't even seen Beyond yet. (That was the first Trek film since TVH that I didn't see in the theater.) I've seen a couple episodes of SNW. A couple of Lower Decks. Not even a full episode of Discovery or Prodigy. For that matter, I've only seen a couple episodes of Enterprise.I don't anticipate I'll be watching the Section 31 film or the Starfleet Academy series.
Those shows just don't appeal to me. I don't find them offensive or anything. They're not ruining my childhood. I'm just not interested. They're not "my" Star Trek. My Trek runs from TOS through Voyager and ends there.
Yes, of course, I wish they would make Trek now that appealed to me. And I'll moan and complain about the fact that they don't. And I was happy that Picard season 3 seemed to be trying to please my generation of fandom. That aside, though, I know that my era of Trek is over. But I also realize that I've got something like a thousand hours of Trek from my era of the franchise that I can watch anytime I want. And if people like the new stuff, fine. I don't understand why these battles cause so much animosity.
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