T’Pol is a great character. As is Shran, and Archer, and Shran, and the Vulcan Ambassador, and Shran, and Admiral Forest, Shran, the 3rd and 4th seasons are consistently great. Oh and Shran is the best character. And I still didn’t say Shran as many times as Jeffrey Combs has Trek roles.
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While season 1 and 2 are your usual fair when it comes to Star Trek, season 3 and 4 are where the show shines best. Imo season 3 is the most compelling, the Xindi arc puts the crew on edge as they have to explore a hostile region of space in a desperate attempt to stop future attacks on Earth, forcing Archer to make morally questionable acts only beaten by Sisko being Sisko.
Also everyone should be required to watch Carbon Creek
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I’ll go a step further. The theme (in its original form) is good and fits the show really well.
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Oh yeah, I liked Enterprise’s original theme song.
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Any ambitions to watch Discovery?
I know it has its detractors but I absolutely love it, plus you’ll see more of the SNW cast there (it’s where they came from!)
You just have to get past the boring Klingon stuff in S1, then I think it’s an exciting and thrilling show, with so much diversity and progressiveness. It has women of colour at the centre of the show, plus gay, trans, and non-binary main characters. I love it.
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We may well give it a go. My wife really does enjoy Star Trek. It being less-liked isn’t really a problem as we’ve found with the Star Wars series we tend to enjoy the ones that aren’t received well like Boba Fett and Obi Wan Kenobi rather than the ones that get all the plaudits like Andor. Thankfully, people were right about SNW being good!
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I watched Star Trek : The Next Generation S7E03 - and honestly i was bored,what happened to this show,i really liked first 5 seasons but at the middle of s6 it started to bore me and idk if i wanna continue this is just mehhhh
Welcome to Season 7, when they ran out of steam and good ideas. But you’re far enough through that you might as well finish it.
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I think as long as you go into Disco with the understanding that it’s a more continuous story focused show rather than the monster of the week-esq show of TOS and TNG era shows, you’ll do fine.
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More continuous story each season, and the fact that big, high-stakes kind of stuff is just its “thing.” I don’t care for the first season, the second is a little better but still not quite there, 3-5 is peak Discovery though.
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I did hear discovery is like the worst trek show idk why
Older Trek fans who don’t like things being different or having representation mainly.
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I found it too dour. Even visually it was too dark. & I didn’t connect with the characters.
Trek can be serious, & I love DS9 but Discovery just wasn’t for me.
I’m enjoying SNW but I would like a new Trek show not tied to the past or well known characters.
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That’s also fairly common and a legitimate criticism of it. I don’t mean to say everyone who doesn’t like Discovery are those I described above, but they’re certainly the loudest.
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Give us either more lost era (between the beginning of Generations on the Enterprise B, and TNG), or just continue the story into the 25th century. I’d say give us more of the 32nd, but that’s what Academy will be doing.
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Yep, far too loud. It baffles me that certain fans are ok with blue aliens with antenna or baddies who look like they’ve got mars bars stuck to their heads but when there happens to be gay characters or non-binary crewmembers they shout woke! For them DEI is fine when it comes to green-skinned women in bikinis I guess 
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As far as Discovery and me goes:
a) The Klingons. They don’t look like the same species as the rest of Star Trek, even with the TOS vs. later Klingons. You also get long scenes with them talking in Klingon with subtitles which I had trouble getting through.
b) Most Star Trek tends to be an ensemble show focusing on different characters different episodes and the adventures of the ship. Discovery felt like the adventures of Michael Burnham and at the end of season 1, I was still left feeling like I didn’t know who half the bridge crew were.
c) I did feel like they were playing up Michael’s relation to Spock too much.
d) After the first two episodes, I was kinda feeling unsure Michael should be continuing to pursue a career in Starfleet…
( Also wasn’t terribly fond of Culber being killed…)
Not to say that I disliked all of it. I rather liked Saru, for example. And then Pike comes along, and he was great…
I was actually feeling somewhat better about Discovery going into season 2, though, but I paused a few episodes in, and once my momentum stopped, I didn’t pick it back up. Part of this is my tending to focus on one series at a time, and my focus shifted.
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(And, for what it’s worth, I didn’t want to dislike Discovery going in. I want shows with diverse casting and LGBTQIA+ characters, and I like to give shows a chance that people have divisive opinions on. None of that was an issue for me going into the show, but I just generally wasn’t enjoying it…)
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Yep, the new Klingon design was awful. Although I thought it was a hint that we were in the Mirror Unverse & that would be the finale reveal.
Yep, it was the Space Adventures of Michael Burnham show!
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Yeah. Now, with Lower Decks, there might’ve been some focus on Mariner, but it was definitely an ensemble show with Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford to follow, and you are getting to know and like the rest of the cast as it gets along.
And I do love Tendi. They’ve gone so much to flesh out Orions on Lower Decks…