So I'm going to out myself as a big nerd here, if playing EQ didn't already do that, but I was pretty disappointed from having just seen the pilot. I was hoping for another TOS / TNG style explore the galaxy type show, but it seems like this one is going to have a more linear plot. Old Picard and a rag tag group of misfits taking on the evil Romulans just doesn't seem like Trek.
I loved the largely stand alone episodes of past trek series. Sure there were some weak ones, but if you didn't like the episodes one week, next week was usually something completely different. Trek differentiates itself from a lot of other sci-fi because while space politics and conflicts played a role, exploration and discovery was always the over arching theme, and I suspect that will be lacking in this series. I suppose there is some potential with the whole AI stuff, but it just seems like they've set it up to be really limited with a narrow and linear storyline.
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