I DVRed it and have only caught a few minutes so far, but the look and feel are awesome. I am cautiously optimistic. Still not paying to watch, though.
Huh. I seem to be one of the few people to have liked it. I really enjoyed it a lot. The Klingons being so… Egyptian … was strange but whatever. I don’t care as long as I’m entertained and it feels like it is going to be entertaining. I’m actually really pleased that it was all phasers and photon torpedoes but that they’re going for some of the discovery of the Star Trek. I’ll definitely watch the next few episodes and see if it continues to entertain.
Didn’t literally hate the first episode, would watch more for free. Not gonna pay to watch it.
I’d probably keep watching it if it was on regular tv.
I don’t like the reboot of the Klingons but was willing to see what they had in mind for them. It may have been just as silly to populate the show with a new race just as threatening as the Klingons and are just like them in so many ways.
I didn’t think it was too bad for most of the show. I didn’t care for the tone. It wasn’t uplifting and it didn’t inspire much enthusiasm.
Much of it felt like a foreign film with all the subtitles. Couldn’t this have taken place after the invention of the universal translator.
The end of the first episode was so stupid it lost me.
I never liked how “Enterprise” characterized the Vulcans, but that was because Archer kept whining about how they didn’t hand over all their advance technologies to Earth and we had to figure some things out for ourselves. That just came off as pathetic.
Here, the Vulcan solutions goes so against everything we know about them I almost feel insulted as a Star Trek fan. And then the first officer mutinies to follow the advice.
I might be better off not watching any more.
Mutinies run in Sareks family. I can think of three times Spock did it without really trying hard.
Wait, is this show free or not?
The first episode was broadcast on CBS and was free.
The rest of the episodes will be on CBS All Access (new streaming service), which IIRC is $8 (it is $5.99)/month ($9.99 for commercial free version) Not sure what is on that besides Trek (hence most folks reluctance to pay)
It is/will be available on Netflix in Canada – there may be other arrangements in other countries.
Brian
First episode is free.
The first sample is free. The rest you have to pay for. Something familiar about that business model.
The universal translator already exists by this point in the timeline; all of the scenes we saw with the Klingons had them interacting with other Klingons, it just wasn’t translated for the viewer’s benefit (the producers want to take advance of already have full Klingon language to work with). As for the Vulcan solution; I find it believable. It’s very coldly logical in context. It was still very stupid that Burnham didn’t really make any effort to explain to her captain where the was getting this information from.
At least “Encounter at Farpoint” introduced Q even though everything that happened at Farpoint station was otherwise forgettable. And holodecks, point to point transporters and the new ship were kind of gee whiz at the time.
Spock’s way to say “hello” wasn’t to go around killing people until they got the point.
Then they must have tremendous confidence in this sample. More so than is usual with television pilots.
You might consider it a logical solution but it is not a Vulcan solution.
Data, struggling to learn the ways of the hyu-mons!
I was OK with the acting and the actors and I can live with the plot-line (not enough to seek out the second episode).
My irritant is that they are still going with the James Kirk “Disobeys Orders=Hero”) version of Captain. Look (spoilers if you missed the first episone), the new lead (1) Assaulted her superior officer while on duty and (2) then attempted to willfully disobey her commanding officer’s direct order. Now, I have never served in a Navy, but I’m pretty sure they still call that Mutiny…and the apparent reward is that she gets to Captain a new ship (instead of 30 years in prison). Jeez, no wonder Starfleet Command is shown as F***** up on so many occasions, if leadership comes from that type of background.
OK, rant over. I suspect that CBS is going to lose their shirt on this All-access thing. we shall see.
I’ll keep watching, but only because it’s already included in my cable package.
They don’t have automated probes? They had to send a person in a spacesuit?
We were sending automated probes with sensors and cameras a lot further than 2,000 kilometers in the 1960s!
That totally blew my suspension of disbelief.
I already had a CBS streaming subscription, so I’ll probably give it some more time, but it’s not starting off well.
Well, I tried, and I will admit the production design was spectacular, but I didn’t care for most of the characters (I did kinda like the tremulous science officer), and the mutiny plotline was ludicrous.
In any event, I’ve got to watch my pennies and so paying extra for the future streaming episodes is out of the question. Will have to pass on that particular show.
In Canada it is broadcast on Space.
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Doesn’t work with a product that isn’t addictive, though. I guess they didn’t think of that. 
I liked the opening credits and look and feel was good, except for the Klingons which looked ridiculous. The plot was typical crappy network TV, and I’d give it a C-. I don’t need to see any more.