All the nerd fandoms do this; it's not just Trekkies. And individual complaints might be more or less valid but a lot of it stems from the desire to recreate a feeling from childhood that can never really be recovered.
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I've tried several times and Enterprise and Abrams Trek are just not for me. So I was skeptical of Discovery and it took me a while to start watching and a while to warm up to it when I did. It bugged me that they were doing a prequel on a ship with more advanced technology than the sequels...
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And another secret Spock sibling. And I hated Lorca. But I got over that stuff and eventually came to like the Klingon redesign (at least the prosthetics if not the armor) What made me try it was Tig joining the cast in S2 My biggest complaint about Discovery now is that there wasn't enough of it
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And I've watched it through a few times now. But for the most part I just want to rewatch DS9 again. I loved it when it first aired but always considered TNG my favorite until I rewatched DS9 as an adult.
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From everything you've said, I think you'd like Books of the Emissary's revised and expanded take on DS9.
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There was so much I didn't pick up on the first time. Partly just because I was a kid but also if you missed a few episodes there was no easy way to catch up and despite the writers trying to mitigate that with sometimes clunky exposition, it could still affect your ability to follow the plot.
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All that to say, I think there are reasons DS9 has been reevaluated by the fandom that aren't *simply* because it used to be new and different and now it's old and familiar. And there are other reasons forthcoming Trek might genuinely suck.
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At the same time that old familiarity is something I value about it that new Trek can't ever give me. But that's about me, not about new Trek.
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I worry so much for Trek, the fandom is diverse so I don't know why I feel like it has to deliver for me, personally. But I*want* them to stretch against the capabilities of film and deliver difficult concepts in digestible or disturbing ways or just be silly. Just keep the light on for us.
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