If you were thinking that returning to original Star Trek timeline would make this series more like the former Trek TV shows and less like the J.J. Abrams movies, forget about it. At least based on the first two episodes, Discovery is exactly like the rebooted movies: more violence, more grim and gritty action scenes, more brooding anti-hero characters... And less of the utopian ideas and cool sci-fi concepts that made TV Trek so unique.
Admittedly, pretty much none of the pilot episodes for other Star Trek series have been perfect, but at least all of them tried to explore some thought-provoking sci-fi themes, even if they weren't always that successful. Here, however, it's just Klingon and Federation ships shooting each other in space, protagonists arguing and shouting at each other, Klingons being stereotypically proud and violent and stupid. That's it.
Obviously you shouldn't judge a whole show based on two episodes, but after the first two Discovery needs to do a lot more to convince me it could become a proper Star Trek series instead of just a generic action piece set in space, like the Abrams movies are.
Same crap as the rebooted movies
If you were thinking that returning to original Star Trek timeline would make this series more like the former Trek TV shows and less like the J.J. Abrams movies, forget about it. At least based on the first two episodes, Discovery is exactly like the rebooted movies: more violence, more grim and gritty action scenes, more brooding anti-hero characters... And less of the utopian ideas and cool sci-fi concepts that made TV Trek so unique.
Admittedly, pretty much none of the pilot episodes for other Star Trek series have been perfect, but at least all of them tried to explore some thought-provoking sci-fi themes, even if they weren't always that successful. Here, however, it's just Klingon and Federation ships shooting each other in space, protagonists arguing and shouting at each other, Klingons being stereotypically proud and violent and stupid. That's it.
Obviously you shouldn't judge a whole show based on two episodes, but after the first two Discovery needs to do a lot more to convince me it could become a proper Star Trek series instead of just a generic action piece set in space, like the Abrams movies are.