New Trek show...

[Pat Mustard]

I also found Deep Space Nine's first season to be yawn inducing. I actually gave up on it and didn't watch it again until after the last season when I had met my husband and he convinced me to give it a try. I found it OK and it took me a while to get involved in the characters, like three seasons.

Whereas I found Voyager to be consistently good (except for that evolution episode) but by that time fans had started to criticise anything new. I much prefer Janeway to Kirk. I actually think that she's more of a mentalist than Kirk and frequently tries to blow the ship up until she gets her own way. Kirk just walks around oozing privilege, throwing racial slurs at his science officer and teaming up with Bones to create a hostile work environment.

What I loved about Discovery was that the characters had far more depth. They swore. They failed. They had their own individual lives, drives and insecurities. I thought the opening music sucked though.

The problem with Voyager was that it was nothing new. It was TNG Season 8 when TNG had been wrapped up because the showrunners realised they'd run out of usable ideas. This didn't change until Seven was introduced and by that stage the staff had gotten so lazy they went with running her into the ground.

Any show that needs to beak credibility to keep its premise past the pilot doesn't deserve this. Not alone did Voyager commit this wrong, it then ditched that premise five episodes later.