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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8643568" data-attributes="member: 7023840">So, I have thoughts.We are now three episodes in. Personally, I thought the most recent episode was the worst of the three, but it was still a good Star Trek episode. And that's when it hit me...This is the Trek I've been waiting for. I love prestige TV. I love season-long arcs. But ... you know what else I love? THIS.It's good. It's optimistic. It's what we aspire to. And each episode is mostly self-contained. And the cast and crew is ... enjoyable. The show it serious, but it never takes itself too seriously. And I genuinely like the characters! And the various crew members are getting time so that I get to know them! And then there's the whole Pike/Spock dynamic, which is working (not to mention the Chapel/Spock dynamic, which is fun). It's as if they crossed the best of TNG and TOS. Which is high praise ... and I hope they keep it up.I still like Discovery, which genuinely got better the last two seasons. And Picard is like a warm cup of Earl Grey- soothing .... Yeah, I know the last season had its rough spots, but it was totally worth it for the scene at the end with Q and Jean Luc (that's all I'm going to say).But BNW is exactly what I needed. (I am glad that they seem to be moving away from the whole, "Pike is preoccupied with how he is going to die" thing, because that doesn't seem to add much to the gestalt of the program.)</blockquote>