As a fellow Gen X, I feel like SNW is…perfectly fine. If you went to the Star Trek store and walked up to the counter and said, “One Star Trek, please,” SNW is what they would give you wrapped in brown paper and tied with string. Star Trek as you like it! It’s a solid C+ for sure. And there are even some really good episodes, too!
But man, do I wish it wasn’t trying so hard to be Star Trek, and was actually doing something new and interesting. I grew up watching reruns of TOS before TNG was on the air, and then TNG was appointment viewing in my house. And I love those shows. I have those shows an I can rewatch them any time I want.
This second season has been better than the first, and I’ve enjoyed it, but there still hasn’t been much to really get me invested. There’s no hook. None of these episodes are threatening to break into my top 50. Which, granted, there is almost 900 episodes of Star Trek, so there’s a lot of competition.
I just want to be excited about Trek, and SNW is not doing that for me.
It’s a tough time for anyone to be making new Star Trek content. People always say they want something new, when when they actually get it, most of them are like “no, not like that.”