Conrad Brookshire

A must-watch for anyone who liked the original Star Trek. The stories and writing are better than any Star Trek since Enterprise (except for maybe season three of Picard) and utterly authentic and true to TOS. It looks, sounds, and feels exactly like TOS, to a degree that I would have thought impossible, and the stories are new! It’s easy to criticize the acting, but that would be both unfair and unnecessary. I found the acting to be completely sufficient to bring the beloved characters back to life, and that’s enough. They weren’t distractingly bad, and in some cases were very good. Kirk is particularly good, and Spock is the most like the Leonard Nimoy version that we’ve ever been given.

This is top quality, as good as Wandavision, but darker, and deeper. It tackles adult themes involving overwhelming childhood trauma, and the resulting mental illness and struggle for identity. The acting is superb, as is the writing, and production value. I’m sure kid’s will like it, and it’s not inappropriate, but adults will be able to wrestle with some deep stuff, that will go unnoticed by the kids. And not a whiff of the politically correct preaching that is ruining Disney, and threatening Marvel.