I have a weird, but very strong love for TNG season 1. Even though a lot of it is pretty awful, there are just SO many great moments in it - some great episodes ('11001001', 'Datalore'), to just how amazing bonkers some of the ideas in it were: The Traveller, Farpoint station, the crystaline entity, the creature that killed Yar. It's not exactly
good. But I really enjoy it.
Generally, I like a show when I really love some parts of it and can tolerate the rest. I enjoy a show that has mostly mediocre episodes but 1 truly
amazing episode
more than a show where every episode is just "good". Even if the latter has a better "average". I much more enjoy to see the
great stuff, even if it's only few and far between. For example I'm a big fan of Dr. Who, but I think they average at around ~1 great episode per season, and the rest is pretty mediocre-to-bad. But this one episode is often good enough to make me like the entire show! The same holds IMO mostly true for Star Trek in general.
If the traditional direction holds, S2 will be a considerable improvement. Everything we've seen so far would seem to indicate as such.
Interestingly, not. In most Trek series (TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT) the second season wasn't
really a big improvement over S1: They usually continued the same style and problems. It's usually the
third season where they truly find their footing.
It's therefore interesting that DIS has apparently changed
so much already, just by judging from the trailers for S2 and the Short Treks. Which is kind of amazing, and keeps
me coming back.
Because - in my opinion - DIS season 1 was probably the
weakest first season of any Trek spin-off shows. At least it was the one I
liked the least (ENT S1 wasn't great either - but it felt more like 'Star Trek' overall)
. But, just judging from the look of it, DIS season 2
could already become much better than most
other Trek season 2's! And that's what makes me looking forward to it. S1 had A LOT wrong with it. But it was also a behind-the-scenes nightmare, so there's good reasons for that. But if the creators really managed to adapt this fast into the right direction, I'm pretty optimistic about the future of DIS inparticular and Trek in general.