I can't believe it's over!

Never watched it.  Shouldn't it move on to Deep Space Ten for next season? 

You KNEW he wasn't talking about NagBap.
(That never ends, roight?)

I use PabGan. It works in reverse.

jamesg1213
Back on topic..never seen any of the Star Trek series after the original. I did start to watch Next Generation but couldn't get into it.
 

It took me a while to even consider watching Next Generation. The first few episodes were kind of a shock - that stuff really didn't age well. But I persevered and eventually got hooked. 
 
Deep Space Nine I really didn't like at first, but it now holds a very special place to me. It's a much darker kind of Star Trek, dealing with things like beliefs and faith, and featuring characters which are much more nuanced than the other series. The line between the good guys and the bad guys isn't as definitive and even the Federation is questioned and criticized.
 
As for Voyager - despite my apprehensions, I actually dug the first 3 episodes. Go figure.

Babylon Five may be better but the series to me costs too much. It was out once, missed it. Watch StarGate I guess.
Aliens movies, Predator movies. Terminator movies.
 
Flying through Borg Spacetime with Voyager. Yea, really?
Last Episode about is great though, because it is about time-travel.
 

I just assumed that things ended with Star Trek and never watched any of the sequels that followed.

Considering how much a lot of what we see on TV these days revolves around shocking the audience one way or another and lowering the bar, the Star Trek franchise is a gem. At least it was before JJ Abrams made those horrible movies.
 
It's also a nice form of escapism; imagine, a future where people work to better themselves and just about everyone can appreciate classic literature, classical music and even theatre. Not that it's likely to happen, mind you... Even Star Trek had to be dumbed down for the masses by the aforementioned Abrams...
 

I watch everything online. The CBS web site has practically every episode of every series, minus one or two. But those missing ones can usually be found on Hulu, and they're free too. Though I've had to buy one DS9 episode in the iTunes store as it couldn't be found anywhere (legally, that is).
 
Streaming from CBS is a pain, though. Whatever I can find on Hulu is my first option, though usually they only offer one season for free. We do have a paid account, but I just prefer to watch that stuff on my computer, in the "man cave/studio".

Beepster
You can Wiki for all the timelines and where everything falls into place as far as series and specific eps and there is that alpha site that keeps even more meticulous records on it all.
 
but I swear... I'm a musician... not a dork... DAMMIT!

I'm addicted to Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) as well as all the rest of that stuff. :)
 
I do consider myself a Trekkie in some ways - though I'm not an outcast unless by choice, I don't collect toys, I don't own a Federation shirt and you wouldn't catch me within a ten miles radius of a ST convention. 
 
I do drool over some of those Enterprise models, but who doesn't? :P
 
That being said, DS9 is the first series which made me want to check out the books. The series had ups and downs - one of the last episodes, Extreme Measure, was particularly unbearable - but it's a universe with much potential. 
 
 

Rain

Beepster
You can Wiki for all the timelines and where everything falls into place as far as series and specific eps and there is that alpha site that keeps even more meticulous records on it all.
 
but I swear... I'm a musician... not a dork... DAMMIT!

I'm addicted to Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) as well as all the rest of that stuff. :)
 
I do consider myself a Trekkie in some ways - though I'm not an outcast unless by choice, I don't collect toys, I don't own a Federation shirt and you wouldn't catch me within a ten miles radius of a ST convention. 
 
I do drool over some of those Enterprise models, but who doesn't? :P
 
That being said, DS9 is the first series which made me want to check out the books. The series had ups and downs - one of the last episodes, Extreme Measure, was particularly unbearable - but it's a universe with much potential. 
 
 

To be honest I probably never would have been motivated to watch all the ST stuff if I didn't need to do hours of physio a day but it is indeed a very interesting universe especially after spending some time learning about basic astronomy and astro physics. When I was kid ST TNG was new and seemingly on TV all the time but I always ended up falling asleep because I didn't really understand it.
 
As far as the books... I am intrigued because it's all very addictive as far as wanting to figure out what's what and filling in the blanks (even the non canon stuff) but I can't hold books while stretching and flopping about so any reading that gets done is strictly technical manuals and now with the intertubes I don't even really bother with paper anymore anyway.
 
I just remembered though I haven't watched the reboots yet but I hear they broke a lot of the original mythology. Even Enterprise had some kind of dumb things that didn't make sense in a historical concept but I liked that in the last season they put the effort into explaining some discrepancies (like the Klingon virus but if you haven't seen that stuff I won't spoil it). They should have spent more time working on fleshing out the history as a prequel instead of going all weird with species and wars never mentioned before.
 
Toys, shirts and other dealibobs are simply things that I don't get into to. I'd rather spend the money/apartment space on useful stuff like music/computer gack. I did have a pretty cool Star Wars collection as kid.
 
I'll probably rewatch the original series again soon because I've only been through those once. Much lulz to be had with those.
 
Cheers.

I have no comment on Batman because it is on TV here every Saturday nite for however long it will be on. Now, Wonder Woman, may be a different issue, but even with that I probably would not buy either series.

 
 

dubdisciple
I think the DS9 episode where they used footage from original was genius.

That was extraordinarily well done. I could not believe how seamless they made it. That was part of the ST anniversary blitz. Voyager had a throwback ep at the same time too... and maybe Enterprise but I forget.