Science Fiction

I hate the design of the ship, the shuttles in season 3 at least look cool. Other than that, it was great show until season 3 when I felt they took too much time for EEEEEEEVERYTHING. This is literally the first show ever where I started skipping through episodes.

What is it these days that series and movies maker seem to think quantity equals quality?

My initial reaction was that it was likely to be Seth Macfarlane's "Galaxy Quest the TV Parody"...but then I watched it, and then it grew on me. I've grown to like it quite a bit.

It was the best trek on TV since Star Trek Enterprise.

But I now also love Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really loved the first season. To me it felt like the good old optimistic utopia Trek but with real people. I tought the episodes had nice and creative topics, including the zoo critique, multigenerational space travel, upvote/downvote society, time-irregularity planet - it was mostly decent sci-fi with some well thought out and fun relationships (Cupid's danger) some outstanding social commentary (About a girl) and a rather weak time-travel episode, which is always a bummer, but never mind.

Then, by season 2, the characters started to transform into plastic figurines with soap opera dialogue and arches (which is a symptom many Trek shows suffer from, to be fair). For example the whole "Oh, captain and first commander cannot date, because the captain couldn't be objective then" (never mind him having feelings anyway). It felt to me like some of them'd been shoven a ruler up their asses. We get some average and some cringe ill-thought out episodes (like the porn-addiction one - the topic could have been a treasure trove if treated properly). It's old-school Trek with all the bad things along the good ones.

Season 3 involves much more action and shooting and it doesn't add any value to the stories. The good arch involves Topa and the Moclan society. The Kaylons (including Isaac) are overall a disappointment. They are supposed to be extremely intelligent but they are not written to really seem that way. They appeared to me to be very stupid and slow-learning. The main characters lost all appeal to me, because they often act in a cold and hostile fashion (like being jerks to time-traveling Gordon instead just leaving him with his familly and picking him up earlier without making the whole ugly drama).

I miss Alara too.

Hated the pilot because of the cheating + having to work with the person who cheated. Dropped it there.

I thought it was great. At the time there was a void, no true startrek was being aired. Then this show comes along, and yeah it has humor, but it had just as much heart as startek.