The thing that I like about Discovery (even though I'm preferring "The Orville, at the moment) is that it feels like a lead-in to the Trek that I know and love.

The thing that I like about Discovery (even though I'm preferring "The Orville, at the moment) is that it feels like a lead-in to the Trek that I know and love. Obviously, something had to happen to take people from where we are now to where TNG was. We didn't just instantly switch as a species from being war-hungry and emotional to being hand-in-hand with all these other species. It's refreshing to me to think that we discovered extra-terrestrial life (and maybe they discovered us) first and then became a unified species and I'm enjoying seeing this first hand. That being said, I do not trust Scott Buck, the show runner, at all. He's taken these great concepts that had really strong beginnings and muddled them up and ruined them too many times for me to be happy with what we have. Case in point, the latest episode. It was absolutely great to me and felt Trek-y and funny and smart while feeling modern and real. They gave a good nod to a TOS character again while respecting him and making me prefer this iteration of him. There was some thoughtfulness to the writing, the acting was pretty great, and I could tell that they were trying to lead people to look at things from a different perspective which is very Trek to me. But then it all went sideways at the very end when the bad guy's comeuppance turns into nothing more than an annoyance and, for some reason, the Federation allows a criminal to (SPOILER ALERT) leave without any kind of repercussion or punishment for trying to hijack the Federation's premiere starship and, although the situation washes it away, kill several of its chief officers and crew members. It's backwards. I'm still going to keep watching and enjoying but the inconsistency is really hard for me to get over. I don't mind if they're slightly inconsistent from series to series but we're only 7 episodes in and they're already being inconsistent with not only the universe they're playing in but also their own universe that they've set up.