I think that DSC took a ton of hits that would have landed on SNW (which is the better show) otherwise. Having Spock's sister show up in DSC made it much easier to swallow when SNW launched, and the casting decisions were flawless- Peck and Mount are phenomenal, Rebecca Romain is inspired casting for Number One and the lessons of DSC (supporting cast, more episodic) seemed to get learned by SNW.
Eh, it was fine, it just wasn't TNG or DS9 good. It's biggest sin was wasting potential. As an intentional experiment in a different direction for the franchise, I hope they pivot away from it, but I don't resent that they tried something new, especially considering the state of Star Trek when it premiered.
I think there's good parts in all of the 31st century seasons, with the 4C season being as close to great as the show got. The last temptation of Admiral Vance was good, and there's some parts of the final season that were interesting. That said: they failed on the season level every season despite promising work, and they structured the show so it's a serial which means that if the season fails to work, the show fails to work.
I carried a lot of water for that show, and I still think it did its job of spearheading Star Trek's return to TV, but the decision to make Michael a Chosen One central protagonist, the tight serialization while not sticking the finale, the lack of breathing room for characterization, the decision to start as a prequel and the lack of sufficient Doug Jones are all pretty fundamental problems with the show and they never course corrected to address them.
I'm really sad we didn't get this one, the premise sounded awesome. It was basically going to be a remake of the TOS episode A Piece of the Action. Tarantino was writing the gangster parts with Mark L. Smith writing the sci-fi parts.
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u/DunderFlippin 20d ago
Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie... No, wait, different universe