What is the general opinion of the Kelvin-verse Trek around here? I know a few longtime Trekkies who really aren’t big on it. I personally like it OK, but think there’s very little of the intellectual moral problems and mind-bending sci-fi plots that marked Trek at its best, but it’s a fun laser light show.
I think it was a necessary step for the Trek franchise. Like I’ve said before, the Trek fanbase at large doesn’t really know what it wants in a Trek show. Even some here complain that The Orville feels like a Galaxy Quest ripoff. umm… as though being derivative of Galaxy Quest is a bad thing…?
The franchise needed new blood from the mainstream populace, rather than (failing to) cater to its exponentially increasingly picky current fanbase. Hiring a director who is primarily an OT Star Wars fan didn’t seem an awful choice.
As I say, I like (mostly lighthearted) adventure, in space, with interesting characters. The Kelvin Timeline has that.