I have some minor quibbles with it, but compared to Picard and STD, it’s really spectacular that it even exists.
High praise that I’m not even bothered by the Kirk or Spock recasts. Even if their version of Kirk looks nothing like Shatner, I like the cut of his jib.
Without saying too much, I think their personalities are true to their TOS selves, unlike the caricatures the recasts were in the Abrams movies.
Nurse Chapel is the only classic character that’s been completely reimagined. She’s more more active, and motivated. She’s still got a thing for Spock, but she isn’t just some hopeless wilting flower. This does clash with TOS, but I accept it as overriding TOS Chapel.
Dr. M’Benga, who is a very obscure reoccurring TOS character is the ship’s doctor, and as is Trek tradition, has a lot of screen time.
Chapel and M’Benga have a pretty deep (non romantic) connection.
Anson Mount is a whole slab of man I'm glad we've tossed on the Trek grill.
Dude, I sit super low on the Kinsey scale, and I couldn't agree more. I should really check out his other work; I don't think I'd ever heard of him prior to SNW. Have you seen him in other stuff?
Aww, now you've got me (Chris?)pining (sorry) for a Trek/Forgotten Realms crossover that ships Pike with Karlach. Maybe I can will it into existence, à la The Secret!
This is what I'll say: I L O V E SNW, it's truly amazing. I quite like a certain scene in the first episode involving sticks (if/when you get to it you'll know what I mean) and the 3rd, 7th, and 9th episodes of S2 are really good IMHO. For S1 I wasn't keeping track of my favorite episodes as much but I remember thoroughly enjoying episode 8. All the episodes are great though, you really should check it out!