Finally caught up on all the "new #trek" out there right now. Overall really enjoyed it but it is a mixed bag.
- Discovery. It's a great sci fi show, it's not really a Trek show. Great cast, amazing production quality but not really what I'm personally looking for. Didn't feel like there was enough content to fill that many episodes. I don't need tv to make me depressed, I can just pick up any newspaper.
- Picard: I liked it but I'm biased. I'd watch this cast retile a bathroom or sit around and drink coffee.
- SNW: loved it, would watch a thousand seasons. I like how weird it was, would like even weirder.
- Academy: I think this is targeting a younger group than me which is totally fine. It didn't have a lot to say to me personally but I thought the cast was very good. The writing clearly loves the source material a lot, but seemed unsure how much it could lean into that material with the assumption that a good chunk of their audience had never seen a Trek before.
All in all I think these shows suffered from too much budget and not enough room to grow. Creative limitations have produced some of the best Trek in history, be it budget restrictions meaning we have to do a lot with a few set pieces or limitations in special effects, where you just couldn't do all the things people want to do.
Sad to see this era end because I think it's going to be a long time before someone tries again.