Having experienced season 4, I’m beginning to understand what the creative team was going for. It seems they're deliberately ridiculing Star Trek enthusiasts by producing some truly dreadful material. The show incorporates elements of every poor science fiction story from the past three decades—unimaginative new settings abound. It gives the impression that the writers have a deep dislike for this series, and are att…

As someone who enjoys science fiction, Star Trek has always been something I appreciate. However, the second season left a bad impression. An entire episode dedicated to a courtroom setting? It felt strange; I almost wondered if they’d include a musical number—and it seems they did later on. This season is quite underwhelming. The title STRANGE NEW WORLDS suggests exploration of new planets and alien lifeforms, not l…

This is easily the best Star Trek I’ve seen. *Strange New Worlds* goes back to the episodic style of the very first shows, which gives the creative team freedom to try different things without committing an entire season to one big plot. Even though it deals with serious subjects, the show generally maintains a hopeful feeling—something that's been missing from many of the newer Star Trek programs. The criticisms …

This show doesn’t feel connected at all to the initial Star Trek. My recent look into Season 2 didn’t reveal any improvements either. I believe it will likely only resonate with a small group of people who seem overly sensitive and self-important, and who embrace progressive viewpoints. It's disappointing because if the writing had been better and the characters felt more like those from the original series, th…

It’s clear some reviewers just want to appear intelligent; their complaints come across as a clumsy attempt to seem sophisticated and important, like they're offering insights from years of filmmaking experience while simultaneously dismissing something they watched online. Each Star Trek show had its own distinct qualities—what made it appealing and where it fell short. What consistently set them apart from other…

It’s such a pleasure to find this show offering an escape from the easily dismissed storylines of other recent Star Trek productions released in the 2020s. *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* returns to the standalone episode structure—the ‘Lesson of the Day’ format—that resonated with viewers of the original series, *The Next Generation*, and *Voyager*. The writing style is consistent with that classic approach, feat…

What's peculiar about this show is the idea that it’s so unlike *Picard* and *Discovery*. From what I understand, it employs basically the same group of people who developed those other recent Star Trek installments. I feel the writing isn't particularly good; it has plot inconsistencies and feels predictable in its progressive messaging. While they seem to have lessened the overt political correctness, it’s still…

It took quite a while for this series to really grab my attention—almost until the end of the first season. But once it did, I was completely invested. The characters are nicely developed, even Spock, and the individual stories consistently improve as the show goes on. The only real misstep, in my view, was S02E09, which features a musical segment. It’s true—they had singing! A lot of television programs have atte…

What really holds this series back isn't the plots themselves; those smaller arcs are reasonably well-constructed and do manage to tie into the larger narrative eventually. The truly unacceptable aspect is the characters – their hairstyles are absurd, the conversations they have are unbelievably silly, their choices consistently bad, and the "modern" special effects are just plain distracting for anyone familiar with…