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First, I am a L O N G time Trekkie. I like the reboots. They are a fresh new way to look at 'older' Trek's through newer technologies. There are a few things I wonder about, and if they are simply explained by being the 'new time line' created: 1. If Kirk and McCoy were 3rd year cadets, but by the end of the movie Kirk is a Captain and McCoy is the Chief Medical Officer, did they each become Captain and Lt. Cmdr. even before they finished their 4th year at the academy? Also, when the cadets were activated and sent to Vulcan, McCoy refers to himself as a "senior medical officer". Again, a cadet is a 'senior medical officer"? Did he get a direct commission? Did you get (another?) promotion as soon as the CMO on the Enterprise was killed? Kirk was supposed to be the youngest captain in star fleet at 32. Is he now the youngest at 24,25?? And how is the long time Commander Spock STILL a Commander after 2 cadets are now senior officers and Pike is an Admiral? Especially after the Academy Commandant referred to him as one of 'their most esteemed members"? 2. Why was Ohura on the transport for 'new recruits' (with her buddy Cupcake and company) when she is a Lieutenant? 3. Where was 'the rest of the fleet engaged in the Lurentian System and why, and why didn't they ever show up to assist.?

Of all the post-TNG series, Voyager is my least favorite. This is mainly due to the fact that every single episode seems to contain some 'scientific' mambo jumbo that someone suggests to the captain, as the Captain understands and explains how this solution could work, then they do it. Tedious. I like the concept of innovation and creativity, but it never seems to differ except in the scientific method they use to solve the problems. I also don't like a few of the oversight mistakes like calling LCMDR Tuvoc "Lieutenant". I also find it 'wrong' that B'Lana and the Paris both get promotions, but Kim has to remain an Ensign for 7 years? At home he would have been at least a Lt. (but the show said 'it needs an Ensign'). The more I read about how Jennifer Lien was written off the show, the more disappointed I am. If she had mental health issues that needed addressed, firing her seemed a poor treatment. I am a huge fan of Jeri Ryan (as are most men I assume), but I think traded one for the other was very "Hollywood" of the series. Overall, I think this series would have had 4 seasons instead of 7 instead of Enterprise. The cast is good, premise is good, but I find the writing fair...too tedious, repetitive and monotonous.

I was a moderate fan when it aired originally, but didn't care for the baseball game interruptions in programming. I liked the concept of the prequel, and thought they could have spent more time on development of characters, systems, government, the academy, etc. instead another 'space hopping' exploration', not that I didn't want that later, also. Most Trekkers, I think, prefer a more thematic set of episodes if not the serial approach. Too many stand alone episodes in the beginning only worked for missing them due to the aforementioned baseball season. When they went into reruns, btw, out of order in season and episodes guaranteed it's failure with low ratings. Watching the episodes now, after completing DS9, I find the show more enjoyable. I tried to watch Voyager first, but honestly ever episode felt like the captain regurgitating scientific mumbo jumbo another officer suggested as a fix as she explained how it would solve the problem: Chief Engineer: "We could try mixing the subglutenate molecular infuser and connecting it directly to our impulse engines." Captain: "And that would have the effect of venting plasma gas from our nacelles and we could ignite it with phasers in the nebula. Right. Let's try it." Ugh. Tedious. Every. Single. I skipped Voyager after the first few episodes and went directly to Enterprise. Honestly, I think I'd re-watch TOS before Voyager. I was glad to see Enterprise go to a prequel and not just 'space hop' all over the 24th century. I wasn't so sure about all the 'Temporal Cold War'. To me, that felt like a fall back for a sort of 'reboot' in case things didn't get well with the original writing (which I believe improved tremendously after the first season, and some after the second). There was only one them in the third: Xindi-and it was tied to the time travel-which I find ironic to be in the 'earliest' of all star trek series. To me, Discovery is pretty much a resurrection of Enterprise (slightly different time, but not much). Too bad this series didn't have the strong writing from the beginning. All in all, I'd recommend it.

Big fan and I highly recommend it. I'm glad this was the first series post TOS (besides animation). With a less successful series I doubt we would have seen a DS9, Voyager or Enterprise. It took the 'next step'. It's hard to believe that almost as much time has passed since it ended ('94) as there was between TOS and TNG. There are some things that still that perturb me a little like TNG and Voyager referring to LCMDs as "Lieutenants". Their pips clearly demonstrated the former, but the dialogue didn't match. I'm also curious as to why there were NO LCMDs on Enterprise... Overall, I though TNG was the best sequel until Enterprise. I liked Enterprise best, despite it being cancelled earliest. My least favorite is Voyager. Although the concept was great, it seemed to be every episode was the same: have a scientific problem, have a crew member suggest a solution, have the captain explain why it would work, then try it..usually with success. Tedious. Repetitive. If you have not seen it, or it's been a while, give it a try. Even if you have seen it, try it again with new context and timing. Streaming services make it all more enjoyable since you can decide when you want to watch and how much. Highly recommend.

I thought this was an excellent movie. I wondered if it was ever on the silver screen, or was sent to Netflix due to Covid19. Performances were brilliant. I thought the insight into some of the details to this situation were enlightening. It was glad to hear Ken carried on the work with other tragedies. There is no 'fair' or 'good way' to resolve the situation, but at least something happened and some remuneration took place.