“I think what I liked about Old Trek (TOS through…probably some of Voyager?) is that, for the most part, episodes stood alone. You didn’t usually have to watch the whole season to enjoy the latest episode, with the rare exception of a two-parter or something.
This comic picks up with TOS, but it has arcs that go longer than single issues, and although it does try to blend, having a “problem of the week” along with longer things going on in the background, I just sort of miss the Trek of old where every week was its own problem, and because they didn’t have the budget, they had to often think and talk their way out of situations rather than blasting.
I think it’s a great case of constraints making things interesting. Especially in the TNG years, they could do an occasional explosion or big ship that honestly still looks pretty decent today, but they couldn’t do that every episode. So they had to come up with stories that are set in this futuristic setting, where people mostly get along, and they couldn’t show a lot of futuristic shit, and they didn’t typically have the crewmembers at each others’ throats.
Star Trek: Year Five is probably little more TNG Movie Jonathan Frakes than it is TNG TV series Jonathan Frakes.
And with that deep a nerd move, this review, as All Good Things, must end.”