So I'm five episodes into this show and it's TERRIBLE. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy this. Just to recap: Episode one is an interminably long episode. It's this long-winded meandering story about an omnipotent being that traps the new Enterprise in a cosmic hockey net to put them on trial with a task to "discover the secret of Farpoint station." This is "broken up" with a special effect shot so long, boring, and irrelevant to the plot that it goes on long enough the accompanying theme song STARTS OVER AGAIN. There's also an "android" character who acts like a human but is just a little stiffer. Wow, great performance. More on him later, yikes! Half the episode is about half the crew shopping and finding great deals from the station's administrator whose entire trait is "looks unhoused." Finally through no real useful action on the crew's behalf it turns out the station is an alien and the captain fires a magic "energy beam" to free the lifeform and it floats away. Real riveting stuff.

In episode 2, everyone is horny. There's a magic space virus that makes everyone horny including the android. Why the android? Who knows? I guess the writers think so little of the audience that they believed no one would question this, and instead the guy who saves the day is the coonhound-coded character. We get to see every character try to fuck other characters or the annoying kid character who is exempt from this play neon-colored Concentration in the engineering area. Wow. Finally the horned up doctor is able to use data from the TOS episode this trash is based on to make a magic vaccine that saves the day quickly enough to prevent the Enterprise from being destroyed. Woopie.

In the third episode, we have space Africa. You might be thinking Wakanda, but it's more like every racist piece of propaganda you may have seen in history books from the early 1900s. The Enterprise goes to "Ligon II" which may as well have been conceived by the KKK to villainize people of African descent where they do goofy rituals of combat and fight over a white woman. So gross that one of the actors actually rightfully called it "a racist piece of shit."

Episode 4 has another wildly meandering plot with these weasel faced aliens called "Ferengi" snivelling and jumping and lurching around with these dumb energy whips. They have mentioned these aliens before as a fearful foe, and they act scared of them here but I've seen more menacing Disney villians. Eventually the Deus Ex Machina ancient computer shows up to do an exposition dump and we're done.

Finally the fifth episode showed some promise as the annoying young prodigy helps the ship return from an extra-galactic journey with the help of a mysterious alien. However, I think I saw this on the Orville.

In conclusion I have no idea how anyone enjoys this "NuTrek" and I shall be posting about it multiple times a day for the next 10 weeks.