Yesterday I read a bit through tweets of #StarTrekDiscovery haters (cause of something Wilson tweeted) and I ever so often stumble about the "real ST fans" cliché and the outcry "why can't they make sth every fan loves", meaning that DSC was created only to pay tribute (1/11)
to new audience and doesn't care about "old fans". This always makes me pensive. I was a very active Star Trek fan in the 90ies, fell in love with the franchise with TNG and got really 'infected' due to DS9. Up to the point that this series became my nonplusultra, which (2/11 )
made it difficult for me to get into those that came after. I tried Voyager, but couldn't connect to any of the characters and gave up after season 1, with ENT I only watched a few episodes but never gave it a real chance. So for me my Star Trek enthusiasm ended with (3/11)
the end of DS9. A friend and I wrote our virtual season 8 for some time after (about a year), but after that my path led away from franchise and fandom.
Around 2014 somebody contacted me cause of my old fanfictions and I got curious to see how the series would (4/11 )
work for me now after 1.5 decades of abstinence. I binge watched through nearly everything (still haven't watched VOY s2+3) with the result, that I

a) didn't like TOS at all
b) had no idea how I ever came to be a ST fan with TNG season 1

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c) was relieved that DS9 still worked (minus all the Klingon parts)
d) found VOY okayish due to Seven of Nine
e) had been unfair to ENT with its really good season 3

and I realised that I lost interest in ENT as soon as it delivered more fanservice in season 4.

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I summed up that in essence I still liked Star Trek, but mainly in its 'other', darker form (DS9 and ENT, s3) and felt that I've grown away from the typical ST eps.
So when the new series was announced with being set in the TOS era with a Klingon story I wasn't hooked.

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It was literally only the casting photo of Anthony and the mention that he was playing an astromycologist that made me give Discovery a chance, cause I decided that I would love his character.

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Imagine my fascination when I started to realise that the new Star Trek, too, had developed away from typical ST episodes, that my life hadn't steered me away from the franchise, but that the franchise was steering in the same direction.

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Well ... and whoever is following me here knows what manic consequences it had for this fan that has been such an obsessive 'real ST fan' in the 90ies.

So whenever I hear the 'make ST that every fan can like'

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I'm pretty sure that I would never have come back to the fandom if Discovery had been 'another one of those shows'. I'm not included in 'every fan'.

I'm grateful for everything that came before, but right now Discovery is the ST series I need and I 💖it for that.
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