Children of the Comet

A delightful Uhura centric episode, with a comet endangering a planet, her specific language skill set is appropriate to the task of saving the day. Beautifully done, initially it appeared to focus on irrelevant mundane shipboard life, but the preamble is warranted in the context of the story.

An honest, straightforward episode in the style and tradition of Star Trek, which also develops characters, particularly Uhura.

Surprisingly it was better than I expected. Filled with beautiful scenes and interesting plot twists. It seems Strange New Worlds will compensate us for all the trashy series of Star Trek.

If only the producers made it more scientifically correct (no sound in vacuum etc, low gravity) and less cringier it would be way better...

Yes, this, about 50-th 'Star Trek ...' TV serial is most close to the original Star Trek in 60-es. In style, set ups, and can say after 2 episodes - even in stories.

I really did not like Discovery and Picard, stopped to watch after couple episodes. This is maybe old fashioned, and younger people might not liking it, but we know that new something means not better always. Hmm, actually in last 2 decades I would say that is mostly worse.

Some reviews here complained about musical way of communication. Well, there is saying that music is language what everyone gets. I found is as great idea, and it was really moving. Great first mission of young Uhura.

And that comet twist was great too. Even if there were some less realistic elements in it.

As in first episode, in this life is what is most important, and it came in best time period, probably - when on our Planet some other things are important for those in charge ...

Taking a classic, restoring it and then modernizing the internals. That's basically what this series is shaking out to be, and it's been enjoyable to watch. The structure of classic Star Trek is there, but the production has been modernized. The SFXs, sets, and costumes have all been fantastic. About as well as you could do a Uhura centric episode, lots of character centric call backs, or as a prequel would it actually be foreshadowing?

Finally they made a Trek series based on the idea of exploration. It's a great cast and they really click. The best kind of storytelling and effects. This is the first series that compares with TNG.