Its single biggest problem right now is that it plays like a show that has more Executive Producers than cast members. Probably because it IS a show that has more Executive Producers than cast members.
Like they had an army of dozens of producers that all had to be listened to about their notions of "what they want this show to be" and it feels like a lot of different pieces of a lot of different shows without being one creative showrunner's vision of one show.
I could see a lot of Bryan's ideas in the pilot. But Akiva "Batman & Robin" Goldsman's rewrites ("Trek delta in the sand! They're gonna CHEER at that I tell ya!") and David Semel's limp flaccid direction (the Binary Stars battle had all the excitement of The Edge's guitar playing for U2 - yknow, the kind of Rock that sounds like its trying not to take up a baby) kind of buried them.
And the dramatic impetus for WHY the show was set in "The Cage" era was totally lost when Bryan was shoved out.
So we have a show that's set just-pre-TOS for no reason. And they coulda saved a LOT of grief by taking literally the same show, same designs, same sets, same uniforms, same premise, same actors, same characters and set it post-Nemesis and had to change NOTHING. Sarek becomes some new Vulcan mentor, that's about it.
All the TOS-ish time period does now is just let them dust off old names to drop because according to Marketing, people know "Mr. Spock" but they don't know "Kira, Bashir, Neelix, Reed, Tucker etc... which is kinda true I guess.
Or they could have said its an alternate reality version of a variation of the prime timeline.
But they chose to Half Commit.
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