Give Discovery a try, just be aware that it’s kind of uneven in quality the first season or so because of a lot of behind the scenes changes during the first season.
Discovery is very different in tone than the TNG era Trek shows and I don’t think it’s quite as good but it’s decent TV.
Lots of people just want the current Trek shows to be similar to the shows from that era but updated for the 21st century and they’re not that.
Nah. It’s not good regardless of anything you’ve ever seen before.
It’s an action series that tries to be dark and gritty. It has nothing to do with all the things I like about Star Trek.
Star Trek The Next Generation might give you more of what you liked about Strange New Worlds and Picard. TNG gets pretty good from season 3 on or so. It’s more episodic, so you can watch a few well regarded episodes first before you dive in.
Discovery is different as it follows one main character, instead of an ensemble crew like SNW. The quality of Discovery varies wildly, however I liked the first two seasons overall. It’s worth trying I‘d say.
Tng, voyager, and ds9 are some of the best tv ever made. Im also quite fond of most of the original but a lot of it hasnt aged too well.
Voyager has its moments, but I would consider it the weakest of the three. Admittedly, I didn’t keep up with the whole series, because I was kinda bored of the concept.
TNG is classic episodic Trek, with very good writing in most of its episodes, even if the first season was a bit weak at spots. Even then, parts of the first season were still interesting. It really hits its stride on the 3rd season.
DS9 is my favorite Trek. It tackled darker themes that TNG and Roddenberry didn’t want to touch, shades of gray that exposed cracks in the Federation, but still remains Star Trek. It didn’t completely throw away the ideals of the Federation in a weakly-written, grimdark manner like Picard. DS9 had some of the best written episodes, and by the 2nd or 3rd season, it was (copying off of B5) telling an overarching narrative that really kept you interested.
Though, Babylon 5 is the series that really started the whole narrative approach to sci-fi. I love both B5 and DS9, but DS9 did steal a ton of ideas from the B5 bible that JMS gave Paramount, during his initial pitch. DS9 had a lot of really good individual episodes, but I thought Babylon 5 had a better, more memorable narrative.
Fully agreed on B5 and DS9. Unmatched in many ways.
no
Maybe, maybe not.
If you like cheap serialized drama, space pew-pew, main characters who are always right even if they are wrong and teary-eyed meaningless speeches with lots of pathos then maybe STD might be the „Star Trek“ for you. And that’s fine. We all have our guilty pleasures.
If you enjoyed the last season of Picard the most, prefer episodic content and can forgive a few lame (and even fewer really bad) episodes then maybe try TNG first.
Yes.
First Star Trek Discovery as a show is a generally ok show. It has good moments, it has bad moments, it has boring moments. It should have more good moments, but it has what it has.
As a Star Trek show, which is defined as the original Star Trek and 90s Trek (Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and maybe Enterprise depending who you ask), it isn’t that. Strange New Worlds is mostly that.
Discovery is a lot more action heavy with a lot of focus on a particular character as opposed to a whole crew. We’re not asking as much about humanity or philosophical questions.
Now Picard is a weird one. Each of the three seasons are wildly different. Season 1 is the style you would expect from Discovery. Season 2 was a big what if season. Season 3 was a one last ride nostalgia adventure.
Have you watched any other Trek besides those two? If not, you’ll probably enjoy Discovery.
I tried to get into Discovery when it first aired, coming from being steeped in the TNG era shows. It was not the Trek I was used to and I felt it didn’t show reverence for the franchise. Now that Academy is out, though, I’m planning to rewatch and finish Discovery.
A lot of hate for it but every explanation of the hate is kinda bigoted.
Chalking up Discovery’s unpopularity as “bigotry” is lazy.
- The writing is really really poor. Like Picard season 2 level poor.
- Someone cries tears about something almost every episode.
- You won’t remember half the names of the bridge crew because they are barely used each season.
- The ship travels the universe through the magic of mushrooms.
- Eating sentient species is used as (unfunny) humor.
- Everyone cusses because the producers think 20th century vernacular is still used centuries later.
- Two words: programmable matter.
- And spoiler: Millions of people die and dilithium stops working because a single alien has… a crying jag. (See point 1 & 2).
Just absolutely horrible writing and plot points. Perfectly good actors and characters wasted every season.
That said, Doug Jones steals the show and creates a fascinating character.
Define bigoted.
There are plenty of dictionaries on the internet.
define trolling.
I like you. /gen
It’s Star Trek.
It’s perhaps not the best Trek, and depending who you ask it may not be the worst.
But if you like one Star Trek show, you may as well give the others a shot.
I can’t imagine enjoying Picard. I did 3 1/2 episodes of discovery and was bored out of my mind I mean, it literally is like molasses and cold weather.
