For an undeterred devotee of 'The Next Generation,' it's magnificent. For anyone after anything fresh, it's mediocre, and as such, this is going polarize opinion even more than the first two seasons.
star of the show was the USS Titan
However, you cannot help but feel that it jars; it feels like an obvious attempt to update certain elements, while leaving others exactly as they are. And perhaps that's down to the character writing, rather than the plot writing. We discover that almost everyone seems to have hit on hard times since we last interacted with them at length, which feels a little forced, for the sake of being able to add some new, darker backstory to characters we already know everything about.
The thing is, all television genre writing – not just sci-fi – has evolved significantly since the mid-to-late 90s and in order to provide the nostalgia that a percentage of fans so desperately crave, the showrunners have put themselves in something of a corner. Some elements, at the very least, are inevitably going to come across as outdated. In essence, it's a sliding scale: Nostalgia is inversely proportional to modern, representative science fiction writing.
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