It’s strange that they doubled down on ”Discovery: The Sequel” and expected success. It reminds me of when everyone hated the Star Trek Enterprise theme song, so instead of replacing it the producers just “jazzed it up”.

Eh...I thought it was a charming show. Not much substance, but charming.

any idea what is meant by backlash?

My friend says it reminds him of Harry Potter

Lol yeah, as if to say it's somehow not the fault of the show that it's bad, but the fault of the audience for not liking it.

For me it was way too quipy. Felt like i was watching a marvel movie.

A show about competent people exploring the universe?

Star Trek Deep Space Nine 2, of course.

I want episodic sci-fi plots with an ensemble cast and minimal, yet still present, slow burn character growth and world building.

I want a show that in one episode is willing to say the entirety of American culture is wantonly racist and the next be about playing baseball in VR, all complete with semi-stage play-style, scenery chewing acting. Giamatti delivered on that part, to be fair, but it just felt so mismatched with the rest of the chaos.

Something that isn't form over substance.

Nu Trek is all about looking flashy without any real thought put past that. The stories and themes are poorly written and presented, characters that should be highly trained professionals acting like they just graduated high school last week and maybe skimmed the chapter names of their particular profession. Contradictory retcons of established lore for no real reason than the writer thought it would be cool.

I want more Strange New Worlds, not more Discovery.

.. A show that is good.

This show is terrible.

Agreed. We finally get a show set in the future with a cast that doesn't bring back characters we already know and people are allegedly up in arms about it. Perhaps they need another series set around ST:TOS with Spock and Kirk since we don't have enough of that already.