Star Trek Discovery, finally a trailer

[Legato Endless]

And writing is lackluster.. what is your measuring stick? Encounter at Farpoint lackluster, or Caretaker lackluster? Or maybe Broken Bow lackluster?

It depends on your scale. As Pilots go this isn't that bad, but that's with the grace that most pilots are only tolerable for introducing the series and mercifully forgotten as a show finds its legs. And Trek usually gets off to rough start. This is not "Broken Bow" bad. Discovery has more potential heft than that valium induced cream puff.

The intro has an excellently sane invocation of the prime directive after the last two series went up their own asses with smug naturalism fallacies. But the execution is sloppy and the dialogue is a clunky exchange of two people explaining what they both should already know.

My biggest issue is the writing, with the lead character especially, pushes Gene Roddenberry's no conflict too far in the opposite direction. A little interpersonal drama is good. The show goes so far past that it's difficult to believe she's a trained officer, much less a product of Vulcan discipline and foresight.