The holograms used before TOS, hand-wavey “let’s forget all this ever happend and send you to the future”, extreme intensity that Michael Burnham says EVERYTHING with, everything being SO FREAKING DARK and ret-conning Star Trek lore (I’m related to Spok) is all what put me off - I just had to stop watching. Thing is, I had NO IDEA the actress that played Michael was Ronda in New Girl! - WOW , so different!! I thought she couldn’t act, it turns out she was given terrible material and direction. (all this in IMHO).
I don’t give much of a crap about the lore stuff at all. I do think Martin-Green was given the short end of the stick when it came to characterization and her overly earnest Starfleet persona wasn’t particularly good.
I do like the supporting cast, and while I think S5 is the weakest of the bunch, I did like S2-4 well enough. Certainly would watch it over any season of Picard, myself, but there is some wasted potential there, for sure.
The holograms used before TOS, hand-wavey “let’s forget all this ever happend and send you to the future”, extreme intensity that Michael Burnham says EVERYTHING with, everything being SO FREAKING DARK and ret-conning Star Trek lore (I’m related to Spok) is all what put me off - I just had to stop watching. Thing is, I had NO IDEA the actress that played Michael was Ronda in New Girl! - WOW , so different!! I thought she couldn’t act, it turns out she was given terrible material and direction. (all this in IMHO).
I don’t give much of a crap about the lore stuff at all. I do think Martin-Green was given the short end of the stick when it came to characterization and her overly earnest Starfleet persona wasn’t particularly good.
I do like the supporting cast, and while I think S5 is the weakest of the bunch, I did like S2-4 well enough. Certainly would watch it over any season of Picard, myself, but there is some wasted potential there, for sure.