Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds and carry out missions throughout the galaxy during the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.
Although I watched many of the Star Trek series as they came out, later ones haven't really been my cup of tea. However, I was intrigued after two trusted sources recommended this prequel to the original series featuring Captain Pike and several other regular characters from the original series.
We enjoyed this quite a lot. It was an intriguing blend of faithfulness to the Star Trek sensibilities while containing character development and modern ideas. Generally this worked out well although our family didn't like the Dr. M'Benga arc with his child. While trying not to spoil anything, I will add that Catholics will understand our basic objections and note the unapologetic storyline here. It's nothing to avoid but I did want to mention that some modern elements just can't be avoided in current television.
However, generally thumbs up and we super duper loved the final episode.
My sources tell me that season two was terrible but the season ending was so satisfying that we are quite content to let our exploration stop here. If you're a Trek fan definitely try season one.
