Second Contact

I adore Star Trek as a franchise. I enjoy all the series with DS9 being my favorite. As a fan who has enjoyed every iteration thus far I don't have any issues with a series like this existing.

As a pilot I think it did a adequate job setting the tone and giving us enough character beats with the main characters to give us an idea of who they are and what they are about. Obviously at under 30 minutes it was very fast paced and having to introduce everyone nothing got deep but there were interesting kernels in each of the characters that I think can develop into something special.

On the down side, it is a little to frenetic and high octane. I hope it will take some moments to breath and let the characters slow down and not spew their dilaouge at warp 9.5.

The character animation was decent as far as modern shows of this type go but the real star is the ship design. Beautiful attention to detail in animating a TNG era ship. The LCARS interface was spot on, the holodeck was perfect, the external design was beautiful. Wonderful all around.

All in all I quite enjoyed the pilot. I have high hopes that it will get better as it goes along and become something special that lovingly lampoons Trek while actually being Trek. This is a nice diversion between Picard and Discovery.