@dumples I enjoyed the first season of Strange New Worlds. Also, first episode of the second season was pretty good.
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I mean, some of them are inconsistent but they are all good and all of them are very much in the spirit of star trek.
I'd also recommend watching The Orville, although not Star Trek, but very star trekky.
Everyone knows Galaxy Quest is a great Star Trek movie even though it's not Star Trek
Strange New Worlds episodic nature makes it easy to just drop right in. Technically it starts in Discovery but I think you’ll be just fine without it.
If they dropped the SNW and just called it Star Trek, I’d be okay with that. It’s deserving of the name.
I know there was some occasional friction between the fans on the old site, but I'll also throw in a recommendation for The Orville as modern Trek that's worth seeing. It does a great job capturing the spirit of the second-gen era presented for the current gen, with its cautious optimism pricked once a week by reminders of challenges yet to be resolved.
The first season is slightly rough (more proof it's a real Trek show?), as they figured out the ratio of comedy to drama, but by season three it's about as jokey as TNG. Fox did a bad job promoting it, it's definitely not Family Guy in space, which I think was probably what the network wanted it to be.
There's tons of Trek people both behind and in front of the camera, so while there's obviously no ties to the Trek canon, it's the closest anything has ever come, stylistically.
I've heard good things about Orville. I might check it out. It looks like it's on Hulu in the US so I can watch it but with ads. I hate those ads
Hulu does have a non-ads option if you hate ads enough.
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I know this will be a controversial opinion, but I've enjoyed The Orvill less as it's gotten more serious. I bounced off season 4 because the first two episodes were pretty dark and depressing.
Both Discovery and Picard are good series. Both have ups and downs. They’re different from each other and scratch a different itch.
Other than that, I haven’t seen any of the other new series, like Lower Decks.
For Picard I would recommend only the third and last season, I found the first two a slog. The third not only was well done, it gave a nice closure for the crew and a big smile on my face.
Watch Picard Season 3, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks and possibly Prodigy.
Avoid all of Discovery and the first two seasons of Picard. They are the worst Star Trek has ever been and seem to exist for no other reason than to pander to the “we need to be represented” crowd.