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My Wife and I can not understand the good reviews for this show.

We attempted to watch it and quit after Temporal Edict (e4) after a year and continued praise for the show by some Star Trek fans we decided to give it another go and now have decided to quit again after Cupid's Errant Arrow (e6).

We are both avid Start Trek fans and love TNG, the Kirk era, DS9 and Voyager. But have difficulties with Picard S01 and S02 and Discovery. Strange New World is great.

Here are our main culprits with the show: The Humor is over the top and relies on characters doing very dumb things. I like when humor comes from situations and not dumb people. Even more so as these people are supposed to be the best of star fleet after all. For all their actions they would have been relieved from duty.

Characters are incredibly inconsistent. We have one who's personality is "Follow the rules, even if they make no sense" and a few episodes in he suddenly breaks all rules purely for comedic purpose. Another one switches between "goofy at all times" and serious. The captain is in some episodes the (from the vie of the lower decks personal) removed captain who does good Star Trek buisness, e.g. Intelligently and efficiently solving and navigating difficult diplomatic situations, in other episodes she is as inept as the other main characters and completely overwhelmed with her duties.

The show is only very loosely tied to Star Trek canon. Captains are not working together but fighting amongst each other for prestige and thus endangering every common mission. Races with clear threats in Star trek suddenly behave very different. Tellarites for example consider arguments and insults good sport by canon, which would even fit the humor of the show. But here they just took one character threat, their "stubborn pride" and forgot about the others.

The episodes lack a moral background. Sure you can interpret, that you should not do the goofy things the main characters do, but there is nothing of what makes many Star Trek Episodes great: Letting you think about good solutions to difficulty problems, either practical or moral.

For now episodes do not build on each other.

The show may get better, but we do not have the endurance to continue.

There are many great shows out there and for those who resonate with my review I can recommend The Orville as a great spiritual successor the Star trek which also brings in some humor. (Nearly to much at start, but soon it reaches a great level which elegantly intertwines which the story) "Strange New Worlds" captures the original Star Trek feeling. Another great and recent series is "Dark Matter"

This movie is just beautiful. It discusses a very current ethic dilemma and the viewers are invited to be the jury.

Persons with very different background discuss the issue at hand, among them one who is directly subject to it. Every single person present has a very strong character and a very different approach of the subject at hand, presenting compelling arguments. These are so well worded that they allowed me to fully understand the different views, even though I already had a strong opinion before watching the movie. As if the persons had days to research and prepare each counterargument based on the statement of the opposition. I feel that this should be presented to everybody who decides about legislation in the case. It will also serve as a interesting history piece in the far future.

I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone who seeks to exercise his mind and isn't just looking for action or a way to zone out. Just a warning here for followers of abrahamic religions: At least one person in the movie may challenge core foundations of your belief.

The movie is a third sex(ual innuendo), a third violence and a third two boys jumping hand in hand from a diving board into a swimming pool.

There is some plot, but it fizzles out with no real development of characters or surroundings, people sometimes seem to change their personalities within a few minutes. The environment changes, but is incredibly irrelevant.

I do not really despise this movie, I am just as unimpressed as I could be.