This was a mostly good start. Story starts ok if I just accept that it is again just a dark revenge, big weapon thing. Would wish for real trek with exploration, science and so on, but if they do it competently, I am ok with it.
What I liked:
What I didn't like:
So it is not perfect, but good enough so that I have hope for the season. And they surely played the nostalgia game well. I had fun.
What I liked:
- Picard feels more like Picard
- Riker is great
- the two together, it feels right
- nicer camera work, feels like Trek again
- music, pace, everything is so much better than S1, S2 or disco
- it is mostly fun
- Design in general, very classic all, but with Crushers ship we get something fresh
- story intriguing, even though elements borrowed from ST2 and 3, but made cleverly
What I didn't like:
- the Darkness. Is this an environmental message like 'don't waste energy'? I realy hate this and it seems they are doing this because they don't want starfleet to feel primarily like a positive thing
- Rafi still very annoying. They should have dropped her, or just ger rid of the drug thing and her hectic aggressive behaviour. There might be good therapies in the future, so why not?
- obviously again a revenge/big thread story. That's all that is left of trek...
- Shaw is a bit to much of an a**hole for no reason. The double bunk... Really?
- Neo-Constitution class, stupid name
- How can the Titan-A be a refit of the old Titan?
- Titan design is nice, but doesn't fit the time
- Fire the texture- guy. The blue grills on the warp nacelle look so cheap. Just noise? And the orange Bussards also look bad, should be red
- lighting/shading of Titan doesn't look realistic
- Riker kind of embarassing Geordies daughter.
- shutle bigger than the bridge of Crushers ship. How can something like this still happen?
- Villain ship again big pointy thing. Please no connection to Nero....
So it is not perfect, but good enough so that I have hope for the season. And they surely played the nostalgia game well. I had fun.
