Review by berkovich-76592

The awful Trek Discovery never seemed to actually discover anything - even when presented with what should have been the great opportunity of being thrown 3,000 or whatever years it was into the future...same so far with Strange New Worlds. I like the series, it beats hell out of any 'new' Trek besides the 3rd season of Picard but again, where is the exploration, the actual 'strange new worlds" ? Last episode was yet another time travel trip to our current century 21. All well and good but god, for a supposed space trekking series, or franchise, or whatever one may call it now, I don't see much that lives up to series titles like "strange new worlds" or "discovery". Missed opportunities, sadly, in my view. Also, all the 'new Trek' series episodes I find are far too long. On TV, with commercials (4-5 minutes' worth between scenes, which is why I record it and FF through) episodes are at least an hour, sometimes up to an hour and 20 minutes. Classic Trek shows, without commercials, were 44-45 minutes long, nice, tight stuff. Granted, seasons are now usually just 10 episodes as opposed to 20 or more in the past, arguably accounting for the almost movie length each week but it seems to lead in many cases to bloated storytelling full of filler.