Only the very wealthy in their Ivory Towers were able to see such things in the 90s.
Us peasants living in the wilderness only heard whispers of such great awesomeness.
Seriously though, as a kid in northern Ontario, we didn’t have cable and I was only ever able to see some episodes of TNG and never on a regular basis. I heard about Voyager and DS9 but I never had the chance to see any of them
It wasn’t until I got older and I bought the entire TNG series that I was able to see all of it in about 2000, then later Voyager on DVD about five years later and now I’m working my way through DS9 for the first time.
Star Trek was great when we were kids … most of us just weren’t able to afford to watch it back then.
How could series back then afford to run more than two seasons? Like every tv channel I’ve ever had access to only bought the two first seasons then re-ran them over and over and over again, in random order. I was never able to finish a series until internet became popular.
Star Trek was very good at being made cheaply. That’s originally why they had transporters. You don’t need to film how they get from one location to another. And they did things like Shuttlepod One in Enterprise, where the entire episode literally takes place in one room.
Both TOS and TNG did both come very close to total cancellation though. I believe it was Lucille Ball that saved TOS
All the Star Trek shows were on free to air TV in Australia, but at 11pm before a school day, so still not visible to kids unless they had nerdy parents that let them stay up specifically to watch it.
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