Ben Lindbergh

But

A lot of likable characters, especially Jaden, the kind of bookish Klingon character, put aside all of the complaints about Star Trek going woke or whatever, as if Star Trek was ever not woke.

You just haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed that.

There are legitimate gripes and critiques about the way that the show is written and produced.

And look, the look of New Trek, that sort of J.J.

Abrams inspired aesthetic that a lot of these series has is

It's not for me.

I've never seen so much lens flare on indoor scenes.

So that gets tiresome.

But these characters, you do grow to care about them.

It's largely well acted.

Sometimes the characters are almost too hot for Star Trek.

You know what?

That's controversial.

There's plenty of hot people on Next Generation and elsewhere in the series too jacked for Star Trek.

Maybe it's, you know, you're kind of taken aback by some of the size of the biceps in this show.

Holly Hunter's included for that matter.

So I suggest give it more than the first few episodes.

If you can, you will actually like the way that it goes later in the season, I suspect.

Which means that you'll be more upset that it's evidently not going anywhere beyond season two, which is already produced.