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The first few episodes are a bit rough. They make it seem more like a Rick and Morty-type show, which isn't quite what I was after for Trek. The show does get a bit better later on, when they settle in.
I’m finding all the pilot episodes and most season premieres in the current era rough. It seems a pattern with all the shows
One definitely gets the sense that there are so many senior executives at Paramount and CBS Studios giving notes as they seek to differentiate the shows that the creators’ ideas get muddied.
As they get into the seasons and get more seasons the EPs and writers find each shows voice, I suspect that they suffer fewer notes telling them to adjust to some executive’s idea of what the show is supposed to be and who it is targeting.
Considering the production issues that Discovery had behind the scenes, I wonder if it might be the opposite. The show's creatives are being hampered by the executives, who would prefer that they kept to the standard "Star Trek Brand" instead. It's happened before, with both Voyager and Enterprise, and the current model of the show is meant to be "A Trek for Everyone", which would be difficult to pull off if all the shows kept to the same sort of formula.