I just marathoned the first season of strange new worlds. And like all of new trek. I hate it. It's just so mediocre. All flash, no heart, no soul. My biggest problem is with captain pike himself. He's a pussy. There are no other words to better describe him, than being a pussy. He's emotionally weak and weak of character. And let's others walk all over him. Dont get me wrong his physical stature is adequate. But his presence is not commanding like a captain's should be. I have no respect for him. I liked him on discovery(which was the only thing I actually liked about discovery). But here on his own show. I feel like they've neutered him on purpose. For humiliation. Like he cant be strong like previous captains were. (My favorite trek overall was TOS. Because it felt like an adventure in space. I felt like the crew actually respected captain kirk. I liked TNG season 1 because it felt like TOS. But season 2 onwards TNG devolved into pretentious technobabble. DS9 is my second favorite series. Solely for sisko aka space shaft. Voyager felt pointless. Enterprise wasn't bad. But not worth it. Only jeffrey combs as shram redeemed that series.) I dont like any of the bridge crew either. They're forgettable. Spock is ok but feels forced. Like ethan peck was not allowed to do his own take on spock. Instead he's pigeon holed. Fells like he's just imitating leonard nimoy at times. (Zachary quinto's spock felt too emotional for me.) And there is an overall lack of adventure. Going places doing things. The first episode was fine. But every episode after that felt mid. Except for the first servant episode. I liked how they couldn't save the day in that one. All the other episodes from season 1 felt like I'd already seen them before in other series. No take was original. It's like they recycled old episodes and ideas and put a new coat of pain. I did like the episodic nature of SNW though.
P.S. How the hell can you have a visually impaired engineer? The concept is cool but it becomes too unbelievable, too immersion breaking.
