Post by Afgncaap5 on Sept 10, 2020 23:27:44 GMT -5
So, I went in expecting to hate this, but the show is kind of awesome? I went in expecting a kind of constant lampooning of Star Trek, but it wasn't, it was more of a pretty straightforward (and well done) comedy. I had a problem with Mariner in the first two-ish (three-ish, maybe) episodes because, uh... honestly, she was too much of a chatterbox, too grating, and just a little too smug and self-satisfied for my tastes, but now that the show's settling into a groove with its characters I've really been having fun.
Since it's a CBS All-Access show, it probably goes without saying that it isn't a family show. It's got swearing and surprise-you-when-you-least-expect-it violence, but so far it's mostly been kept reasonable (and most stuff you couldn't say on regular television gets bleeped out anyway, so it isn't too problematic for my antiquated sensibilities).
Best of all, they're actually coming up with a lot of solid premises that really feel like they belong in Star Trek. Most of the time they're in the background since the bridge crew (who would usually be the main characters on a Trek show) aren't the focus of what's happening, but the smaller-scale stuff that the main characters deal with could make decent Star Trek episodes on their own, albeit different flavors of them. The fourth episode in particular, Cupid's Errant Arrow, had a genuinely cataclysmic "Save The Planet From Destruction" kind of background plot as the backdrop for both the A-plot (which felt like something out of one of the more Twilight Zone-y episodes from the Original Series) and for the B-plot (which felt like something from one of the cheerier "lean on the sci-fi hard" episodes of Futurama).
I keep seeing people talk about how this show is going to "ruin the franchise" and stuff but I gotta say, so far I'm loving it.
Since it's a CBS All-Access show, it probably goes without saying that it isn't a family show. It's got swearing and surprise-you-when-you-least-expect-it violence, but so far it's mostly been kept reasonable (and most stuff you couldn't say on regular television gets bleeped out anyway, so it isn't too problematic for my antiquated sensibilities).
Best of all, they're actually coming up with a lot of solid premises that really feel like they belong in Star Trek. Most of the time they're in the background since the bridge crew (who would usually be the main characters on a Trek show) aren't the focus of what's happening, but the smaller-scale stuff that the main characters deal with could make decent Star Trek episodes on their own, albeit different flavors of them. The fourth episode in particular, Cupid's Errant Arrow, had a genuinely cataclysmic "Save The Planet From Destruction" kind of background plot as the backdrop for both the A-plot (which felt like something out of one of the more Twilight Zone-y episodes from the Original Series) and for the B-plot (which felt like something from one of the cheerier "lean on the sci-fi hard" episodes of Futurama).
I keep seeing people talk about how this show is going to "ruin the franchise" and stuff but I gotta say, so far I'm loving it.