@someoneoncesaid6978

3 months ago

Its biggest problem is that it shot itself in the foot immediately on launch. Having the Klingons speak in Klingon (not to mention the redesign, yet again, of how they look) was an extremely large hill to ask people that were new to Trek to sit through. Anyone new to Trek that thought they'd give it a shot probably turned it off without completing a single episode. That's not the way to grow your viewer base. It irritated the shit out of me, and I've been watching Trek since the 60's. Once you make it over that hump, and characters started actually speaking English, it became watchable (sometimes mediocre, sometimes great, most times somewhere in the middle). Long-term, it has the same issue that other new Trek shows, like Picard, have had - stretching what should've been a 2 or 3 part story arc into 10 episodes, which made it quite boring more often than it should've been, then in the last episode or two pulling out the deus ex machina out of thin air to wrap everything up that leaves the audience feeling empty. They would've been much better off to have had three or four mini-arcs lasting only a couple episodes each within a season (like old-school Doctor Who did), and not pulling something out of their asses at the last moment that was never mentioned before to suddenly pop up and fix everything that's going on.

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