I avoided watching this for 20 (!) years, because the reviews were ambivalent. But it's really fun. It's not awesome, like the Kirk/Spock series, but it's also (thus far) not excessively moralizing like TNG.
This is the only Star Trek (for me) that captures the wonder of the original series. The writing isn't great, but that was never a thing with Star Trek. They're also a bit kinetic, say, with discovering new Warp-Civilizations.
I also really appreciate that the crew is basically white, except for one black guy that's not blackity-black.
Even the chicks are fine. The writing for the Asian chick is a bit insipid, but it accurately reflects the chick version of the 'hero's journey'.
Unfortunately, they've introduced Time Travel, so I guess a few of the episodes are going to be tedious.
Is this a bad troll?
If you were really around 20 years ago and into Trek, you’d know full well that people knew (and were proved correct) that a prequel series just wouldn’t mesh with looking pre-TOS as that show was so dated production wise.
And lo, we had impossible journeys to Kronos, Ferengi, Borg, wallpaper music and “hull plating at 60%”… all had marks of a burned out franchise that needed a rest and change of creatives.
Definitely a bad troll.
Nah, not a troll. I used to watch TOS in syndication from about 1978-1990, usually with my dad -- an engineer who started teaching to support the family. But I was never a Trek Guy.
To be honest, the 'fandom' stuff never meant anything to me. I grew up in a small town, so no one cared too much about TV shows -- we usually just went outside. Now I like things like FMA:Brotherhood, but at my age I'm not going to go to Comic Con or anything like that.
Thus far they've mentioned the Ferengi once, and the Borg haven't come up.
The moralizing is in keeping with TOS, but without the histrionics of Picard.
The Ferangi shouldn't pop up until TNG when Picard makes first contact. But I vaguely remember ferangi popping up in Enterprise somehow.
There is an episode with the Ferengi in ENT. It is fansevice twice over (the ladies get naked). There's probably some excuse explaining how nobody meets them until TNG but it's been years since I watched.