If it went too much past 10 years we start running into Pike's end days.

Love this series.

I watched a couple episodes on a plane recently and I want to start watching in earnest. It was so surprisingly good and fun.

Its continuing mission: To explore strange new episodes;
To seek out new jokes and new storylines;
To boldly go where no writer has gone before!

I am checking out the first season and I love a lot of it. The visuals are amazing, tough I do think the ship has way too much empty interior space. The aesthetics, costumes, props etc all looks incredible though.

The cast is spectacular. Ethan Peck is perfect as Spock. Given who is Grandfather is I am not surprised. Jess Bush is also great as Chapel. I struggle with Anson Mount though.

The problem is everything moves a little too fast. All the character became close friends way too fast and I wish te show had been more patient with some of the characters back stories

Some of the episodes are really dumb, The Serene Squall and The Elysian Kingdom were just WTF moronic.

I do admit that it is best Trek I have seen since STNG.

It's good, but, have you noticed the enterprise has a crew of about 10 people? It's the main cast, and a few recurring characters here and there, and that's it. Sure, there's tons of extras in the bar and other shots, but none of them have names or lines. I happened to re-watch some TOS and there's new extras everywhere, on every away mission, on the bridge and they're... there. Once I realized this it broke my immersion a bit. Otherwise it's pretty good.