I just started this show. I haven’t really liked any Star Trek show since STNG, so I kept putting this one off. Mostly because Picard hasn’t been well received
I am halfway through season one. I am not sure what to say about this show. I don’t love it. Parts have a lot of promise and parts are just so clumsy. It has a serial story, but it is clear that whoever is writing it is still thinking episodically. Things are really sped up and the writers have an obsession with illustrating backstory in the worse way. So many scenes with laborious dialogue.
The show is also a lot more realistic view of the federation than previous Trek products I have seen.
Overall there is enough goodness to keep me watching and again, I don’t love it.
Mostly I didn’t like the first season because it felt like a weird retread of the premise of Mass Effect. Never bothered watching anything beyond that.
Trying too hard to be gritty and serious, when the somewhat campier aspects of TNG are what originally sold me on that series.
TNG had its share of serious and deep plots, but the less serious, self-aware episodes are what give it character.