Hey, I gave up on Next Gen at about the same point in its first season, and for exactly the same reason: an episode that was screamingly stupid, punctuating episodes that were at best lackluster. I eventually started watching it again when I caught the fifth-season episode "Darmok", which remains one of the smartest episodes of any Trek series -- or any other space opera, for that matter.
Since catching up on the early seasons in reruns, I've come to the conclusion that I did, in fact, make the right decision. Those first two seasons were pretty mediocre. Seasons 3 and 4 were better, but Season 5 is easily the peak of that series.
Life's just too short to watch bad TV, and to wait for a show to get its act together when it has more than 25 seasons of precedence. I mean, how long does it TAKE to get it RIGHT? Other shows don't get the luxury of flailing around aimlessly with crappy scripts for three years -- they get it right, or they tank.
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Since catching up on the early seasons in reruns, I've come to the conclusion that I did, in fact, make the right decision. Those first two seasons were pretty mediocre. Seasons 3 and 4 were better, but Season 5 is easily the peak of that series.
Life's just too short to watch bad TV, and to wait for a show to get its act together when it has more than 25 seasons of precedence. I mean, how long does it TAKE to get it RIGHT? Other shows don't get the luxury of flailing around aimlessly with crappy scripts for three years -- they get it right, or they tank.
And I've seen series that started off a LOT better than ANY of the post-TOS Trek shows tank in the first season, when they should have had a long and vital run ahead of them -- including one that debuted in the same year and on the same network as Voyager.