James Reynolds

I was a child when the original Kirk series aired, I was allowed to stay up to watch it if dad was on the right shift. This is my least liked of all the Star Trek series. I understand the prequel concept, we have to see how the protocols developed etc, but the stories are usually too thin. The Xindi (spelling) are two dimensional, the captain is horribly miscast (loved Bakula in other things, but he’s awful in this). This is supposed to be set between now and the original series, but it feels so backwards. The captain is not the kind of leader that would be tolerated today. I like most of the cast well enough, the captain and Malcolm Reed aside. But worst of all, by a long long way, is the dreadful, ear bleedingly terrible theme song. It could be that the song is so bad that it completely colours my opinion of the whole series. It’s badly written, badly sung, worst of the 80s sounding dirge that has no connection with the franchise or this series at all. Painful. The only thing I can think of was that it was deliberately written to be Uber retro and soundly and feel dated to somehow underpin the fact that the show is a prequel. Or, the artist is someone’s son/brother. I don’t blame them, it’s probably not representative of their best work. But whoever thought “yes, that’s what we’re looking for” is an idiot. Love Star Trek, probably dislike this because it was such a disappointment. Here’s a clue for future film/series makers. Write a good story line and underpin it with good dialogue. I find Sisko equally intolerable from DS9 l. Not everything has to be delivered as if it’s Shakespeare.