Movies & TV

This is amazing. Without spoiling anything, the major running plot is extremely relevant to current world events. It's aged very well. It's refreshingly free of "end of history" brainworms for an American sci-fi show made in the recent-post-USSR era. The CGI is a little cheesy but it's not as bad as some people would claim. And I know for damn sure that hexbearians will love the S1 episode "By Any Means Necessary". If the episodes are embeddable I think it would make for a fantastic hextube experience, the moral of the story is basically "shoot fascists on sight" which is a message that I think many reading this can get behind.

Trekkies are going to love a lot of the guest stars. Fans may have bickered, but the production crews and actors of TNG/DS9 and B5 were on very friendly terms, you'll see a lot of familiar faces getting to play against type in fun ways.

Spoiler-free advice to new viewers:

Don't google anything. Go in totally blind. This is not a "Lost" situation, plot questions do get answered in very satisfying ways.

Skip the opening credits for seasons 2, 3, and 4 until you're about 4 episodes into each. I don't know if the youtube versions have spoilery credits as I can't watch at the moment, but most streaming platforms have the spoiler-credits. I'll update this later when I can watch the youtube version and confirm.

The first season is a little uneven. I'd say it's about on par with DS9 in that respect, it's certainly nowhere as bad as TNG S1/S2 were. It soon finds its feet in S2 onwards. It took a little time for some of the characters to be fleshed out and for the showrunner/writer and actors to nail down the performances. There's a tragic IRL reason for one famously wooden S1 performance, but that's resolved by S2.