With the exception of a few unexpectedly good episodes, Star Trek Discovery was just not my thing. Then again, neither was Enterprise. See, I am old. When Voyager started going south, I also gave up on Deep Space 9. Old or not, as far as Star Trek is concerned, in one sense I am an awful purist. For me, Star Trek is TOS, TNG, the TOC movies plus Star Trek First Contact...and then anything after that is either deuterocanonical or just plain apocryphal.
It doesn't mean I've stopped watching or started disliking anything New Trek that I see.
It's just a matter of remembering that I watched TOS on syndication before TNG was released, when you're that old...there are implications.
I tried to like Discovery, I really did, but the only thing to come out of it that I could hang onto was Anson Mount and Ethan Peck. No one can replace Leonard and Bill, but Mount and Peck are a blanket I can comfortably wrap myself up in.
Then again, I was just disappointed and saddened by Picard as well.
Of course, all of these are just my opinions, and given what they are, why do I really dig Strange New Worlds?
I do not know!
It is a huge mystery to me, but I do.
Beyond Anson Mount and Ethan Peck as Capt. Pike and Spock, there is much I can sink my teeth into;
Something about the way Christina Chong plays La'an...it is as though some part of Khan (Ricardo Montalban's Khan!) somehow comes back to us, every scene she's in has this old TOS flair as a result, I can't get enough of it.
Just like I think Ethan Peck does the better job of being Spock, I think that Celia Gooding just nails it as Uhura, same with Jess Bush's interpretation of Nurse Chapel.
The actors and actresses on this show are succeeding at bringing classic characters back to life, and creating new ones that it's easy to care about.
Of course, there is only one Worf, and that Worf is Michael Dorn.