Ben Lindbergh

There's good MCU.

There's bad MCU.

The same goes for Star Trek.

And sometimes it goes for the same series within the same series from season to season.

So look at Star Trek Picard.

Rough couple first seasons, especially season two.

Season three, great.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds, one of my favorite Star Trek shows.

Great season one, good season two.

Season three, spotty, as we covered here on Ringiverse Recommends.

Lower Decks, fantastic all the way through.

Can't recommend Lower Decks highly enough, but it's over, unfortunately.

Discovery, started strong, sort of fizzled.

Section 31, an abomination, a crime against media.

So that brings us to Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

which just concluded its first season and sadly has already been canceled, though there is an already shot season two that will be coming out next year.

I'm all for experimentation.

I am not one of these people who thinks Star Trek has to be this or that, and this goes against everything that I understand Star Trek to be.

By all means, experiment.

Take a time jump.