I love Star Trek it started with me watching Star Trek Voyager late in Middle-School. It was on UPN and fell under Paramount. As I recall, the new episode was on Wednesday nights. This lead to TNG I watched the summer before High School. Pretty sure it came on like 11 PM at night, and they were showing the early seasons, but I really liked the Crystalline Entity, Q episodes, and others like the Royal were very good (the first time). The holodeck episodes were a bit over-the-top; there really should be a recall from on holodeck units by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. At some point I watched it in the mornings and recorded it everyday on VHS.
Back then I never could really tolerate DS9. Anytime it would be on TV, it would be a bunch of Ferrangi shouting "dabo" and Star Fleet folks talking about some Prophets.
Voyager was my favorite back then, but I saw it only once a week. It wasn't being syndicated for re-runs. At some-point it was, and only then did I see all the episodes and figure out who Kes was etc.; since, I started probably right before Season 4 when I started watching. Ultimately, I remember the excitement for Season 5 and the previews being aired on UPN.
Late High-School or early College I started watching DS9 particularly late at night, and I loved it. All it took was a couple of excellent episodes. The one that got me started was Little Green Men, where they travel back in time to earth in the 1960's. Another great one was where the crew went to an abandoned Cardassian space station to get parts for DS9 as well as do a prisoner exchange with the Dominion for Moogie. That was probably one of the most hilarious things to ever happen in all of Star Trek. The episode was S06E10 the Magnificent Ferengi.
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Then I did not watch anything new in years. I saw some Enterprise, but the excitement left. It just wasn't true Trek as far as I was concerned. None the less around 2010, I watched all of Enterprise, and it was pretty good. I started enjoying it until they talked about nothing but the Xindi. My favorite episode of all was Carbon Creek. I also liked an episode where the humans were placed in the position of withholding aide to a species.
I loved all the Movies except the JJ Abrams ones. They were okay films just didn't have the heart and sole of Gene Roddenberry in them. For that reason they were Trek only in name.
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Fast Forward to 2017, and it seemed like an exciting time with Start Trek Discovery starting and the Orville. It seemed like a new chapter was about to unwrap! I was guessing the Orville would be a poorly done Spoof and that Discovery would be pretty good. I was very wrong.
CBS Star Trek sucked. Heck, they even ruined the new Twilight Zone with all their social justice warrior bs.
The first episode of the Orville was Meh. It was good but tried to be too funny, but the rest of the Orville was superb. It was quickly my favorite TV show, and to this day, I consider it Star Trek (just not by name). That said the spirit of Star Trek is alive and well in the Orville. The only problem is there have been only two seasons, they are short seasons, and there are long delays between seasons. I hope we get a season three (3), but if that happens it will be late 2020 at best.
As for Discovery, I tried to like it, but I aborted. It wasn't Star Trek. It was Dark and the cannon was wrong. The Klingons were an abomination, and the hero or heroin, Michael Burnham I cannot stand. Why should I like a traitor to the Federation? I realize she is supposed to redeem herself etc., but why should I want to stick around and watch that happen? They would have been better blowing her out an airlock.
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Now for a new chapter... PICARD.
I am very, very hopeful it will be great! It has been 16 years; since, I have seen Patrick Stewart and the crew, and I miss them greatly. I still remember how happy I was when Nemesis came out! I literally watched it on the way home from College on the day it came out. It was that important to me.
At any rate, PICARD has the right people. Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, Johnathan Franks as William Riker, and Brent Spiner as Data (or perhaps B4 we don't know). It is directed by Johnathan Franks, who understands Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's vision, and cannon.
My hopes are that this will be the first real Star Trek in over a Decade. In the 2010's the only thing worthy of Star Trek fans was the Orville.
