Yeah, me too. TNG was good, but it was just a little too neat, a little too preachy. Hence DS9 and then Voyager.
For me, it was just plain overload that led to burnout. I taped every single TNG episode, most of them in order. When DS9 came on, I watched it too-- for the first three seasons. Saw every episode of the first and second seasons, but after TNG went off the air, and DS9 started turning even more "dark and gritty" from it's "TNG but darker and grittier" roots, I only watched about maybe 3/4 of the shows in the third season, and then quit watching it altogether. I saw MAYBE a stray episode here and there. I watched Voyager the first season pretty regularly, but then got disenchanted with it as "DS9 on a starship". I can appreciate the idea-- lots of writers and fans said that the "nobody argues in the future, everybody gets along" idea simply made TNG VERY hard to write for, and precluded a lot of interesting interpersonal relationships (or else if they did argue, it had to be because of the "gimmick of the week", like Sarek coming aboard with Bandai Syndrome and affecting the crew, some alien infection, mind control, etc.) BUT, I HATE "dark and gritty" with a passion... Never liked it since the first "Batman" film which was SO "dark and gritty" you couldn't see what was happening on-screen most of the time!
I think they overdid the "interpersonal conflict" thing on DS9 and Voyager... after all, if I want to see people arguing and sniping at each other, I'd go visit my parents... LOL:) (and become, willingly or not, and active participant). At any rate, I quickly lost interest in both DS9 and Voyager and only caught the sporadic episode here and there of either one until they went off the air. When I heard there was ANOTHER Star Trek series coming out, it was like "so what". I never even watched a single episode of "Enterprise" in its first run. Honestly at the time I'd rather watch TNG reruns or taped episodes than DS9 or Voyager.
Fast forward a number of years, and they started showing episodes of "Enterprise" on Sy-Fy or something on DirecTV (back when the "Sci-Fi" channel still had ANYTHING of interest on it whatsoever that wasn't mind-numbingly stupid). I watched Enterprise from nearly the beginning and was mad at myself for never having watched them in their first run. For the most part, it was a terrific show! Had a few stinkers here and there, but what series didn't, TNG included?
Fast forward a few more years, and now I've got an 11 year old, and TV is a complete and utter wasteland. I gave up on broadcast TV back in the late 80's-- there hasn't been ANYTHING on network TV that has interested me in the least since the early to mid 90's, period. Everything I watched was on tape or DVD until we got satellite TV in the mid-2000's. Sadly, satellite TV has become just as much of a wasteland as broadcast TV has become, only now we're paying about $100 bucks a month for it. We'd have already dropped it if it weren't for "Vikings" and "Turn-Washington's Spies". That's about the only two shows left on there I have any real interest in watching. The Science Channels aren't about science anymore, the History Channel is full of alien conspiracy nutjobs, any successful show that they DO dream up, as soon as it gets a following, they make 10 clones of it and then "add a lot of drama" to the original to try to keep it on top of the heap, and ruin it (like they did with Ax Men, etc) or cancel it outright (like they did with Swamp Loggers). So, we're just about a hair's breadth from giving satellite TV the old heave-ho. We're currently switching over to streaming TV and movie services, as we've been buying the old 70's TV series on DVD's for awhile now anyway (Star Trek TOS, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, A-Team, etc.)
The shows from the 60's, 70's, and 80's beat ANYTHING broadcast on regular TV in the last 20 years.
Actually, since we're at the inlaws in Indiana, they have some excellent alternatives on broadcast TV of all things. My BIL refuses to PAY for TV, at least the legalized robbery that satellite TV has become, so he uses the antenna. They do have Hulu (courtesy of us) and Netflix (courtesy of his oldest boy) but that's it. Broadcast stations like COZI-TV, Heroes and Icons, Antenna TV, and MeTV broadcast a bunch of the good old shows, from "Adam 12" and "Emergency" to "the Munsters" and "McHale's Navy". Now Heroes and Icons is showing all five Star Trek series from beginning to end in order. I only wish we could get these channels down near Houston where we live!
Actually, Keira and Betty and I have been watching all the Star Trek shows, in order they were broadcast, from beginning to end on Amazon Fire Stick TV. We watched all the remastered original Star Treks and the movies on DVD/Blu-Ray, and then watched The Next Generation on streaming, and finished DS9 a few weeks ago, and we're up to season 3 of Voyager, currently. Plan to finish watching Voyager when we get home from vacation, and then Enterprise. Keira is excited about Enterprise, looking forward to seeing it from the previews they've been showing on Heroes and Icons.
I've also become completely disenchanted with the direction that the studios have taken with the Star Trek franchise. Abrams-Drek is simply awful-- his "Star Trek" movie abomination was bad enough, "Into Darkness" was PURE UNADULTERATED CRAP. This new movie looks like more of the same. I doubt I'll even waste money or time buying a ticket for it. (BTW, the new "Star Wars" isn't much better). I started watching the "Star Trek Continues" and other web-based series and find them, especially "ST Continues" to be INFINITELY better than ANYTHING the mainstream studios are putting out! They're putting out FAR better stories with almost as good of a production value as "studio Trek" can produce on a TINY fraction of the budget the studios blow on total wastoid scripts and hare-brained story ideas by no-talent hacks like JJ Abrams and company making cartoonish shoot-em-up style "comic book movies" (another genre I totally despise and am sick to death of...) IF ONLY they'd hand the reins over to some of these web-based groups... "Star Trek Axanar" looked to be better than ANYTHING that studios have put out in the past decade... which is probably why they pulled the rug out from under them-- it was going to show them up!
Oh well... there's still the original six movies and even the first couple TNG films were good (except "Nemesis" which sucked big time) and reruns of TNG, DS9 (which Keira and I did thoroughly enjoy; I guess now that we've seen just how 'dark and gritty' the crap on modern TV has become, DS9 looks a lot better than it did years ago) and Voyager (which we're also enjoying), and of course Enterprise, which really surprised me when I watched it a few years ago. Sure beats ANYTHING they're putting out now...
I SERIOUSLY doubt that CBS could produce ANYTHING "Star Trek" related that would interest me in the slightest, subscription based streaming or not. At any rate, I won't be purchasing a subscription to a service for ONE show... especially an unproven one by a network with a *oops you said word #2-poor track record of making anything remotely watchable in the last 20 years...
Later! OL J R