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Like a lot of people I presume I'm watching the season 2 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. And it's good.
Is it any good? I watched season 1 of discovery and the first season of picard and those combined put me off so haven't bothered with any star trek stuff for a while.
Well I'm not a fan of Discovery either, but I liked Picard so we may not have the same tastes, however I'd say that Strange New Worlds is the best Trek we had since the end of DS9. I love it.
I can't stand Discover or Picard but greatly enjoy Strange New Worlds. Besides still being a prequel, it's everything I wished modern Trek would be!
I'm also obligated to recommended Lower Decks.
It is the best "New Trek" by far. Vastly better than Discovery. You should definitely give it a chance. It isn't perfect, but it is a positive relief to watch after some of the other recent stuff.
SNW was great out of the gate. DSC never found its footing with a "Riker beard" season like TNG did. Picard was a disappointment to me. There is a lot of internet love for Picard S3, but I found the writing to be lazy and inconsistent with respect to both canon and years of character development JMHO, though. I won't yuck your yum if you enjoy it! :-)
Yup. Discovery was nonsense really, and while the only season of Picard that was good was the last one, SNW is awesome from the very start. It's almost like old star trek going down to planets in shuttles and stuff. Really enjoyable.
I'll need to check it out. They seem to want to turn star trek into an action focused thing now, I like some action but I also like sci fi that makes you think about life.
The Expanse is amongst the best Sci fi I've seen. If you haven't seen that I'd recommend it 100%.
This is what makes me like sci fi. It seems that as CGI effects became more accessible, people started leaning into them instead of focusing on the actual science fiction ideas. Very few modern shows attempt to tackle social or philosophical issues in a nuanced way. Part of that is certainly a turn towards large overarching stories and the abandonment of an episodic format.
As you can probably guess from the above, I bounced off the newer Trek pretty hard.
Yeah you've got a point there, I know its not sci-fi but I really liked the show poker face, gave me some good nostalgia feels for the episodic daytime detective shows my dad used to watch. I enjoyed raised by wolves but typically it got cancelled after two seasons, season one had decent effects but the funding for the second season must have been cut because the cgi was markedly worse. Nevertheless it was some of the most inventive sci-fi I've seen on tv for a long time.
It's a shame we can't get another tng style show but it's probably not bombastic enough for modern audiences.