I didn't care for that installment at all.
And, there aren't many bigger Star Trek fans than me.

How dare they call that Star Trek!

... and everyone on the Enterprise is there for the adventure.

Any episode where Earth and our solar system are threatened is garbage, with one exception: Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home.

Saving the whales here in the 21st century is a good plan.

>> Any episode where Earth and our solar system are threatened is garbage,

Off the top of my head: Assignment Earth, The Changeling, Best of Both Worlds, Conspiracy, ST:The Motion Picture, and First Contact are examples that aren't just good Star Trek, but good Sci-Fi.

... and be saving the earth at the same time.

That makes the galaxy very much smaller than it is in reality.

If the Enterprise is hopping around the galaxy like airliners hop around the airports of 21st century Earth they are tourists, not explorers.

The Vulcan IDIC symbol - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

In real life I've got over a hundred Star Trek novelizations on my book shelves and a few boxes of Star Trek memorabilia in storage.

I know people who wrote some of the earliest slash, though they'd never confess it today. In the Eternal September of the internet I was fascinated to see multiple people claiming authorship of slash that I'd seen being written.

Nevertheless I'm disappointed with a lot of the newer Paramount product. I want interesting stories, not product. Creating interesting stories shouldn't be too difficult when you've got an entire galaxy as your playground.

ready for Sci-Fi ... and Spock started singing. And soon they were all singing and dancing. It was the lowest point ever in Star Trek. It actually ruined my night.

When SNW is good, it's among the best. But, they know how to be bad.

Discovery sucked starting with season 3. It was tedious at points. I barely made it.

Lower Decks was surprisingly excellent and thoroughly entertaining. Killed off for no good reason.

Trek is at its best when it exposes and comments on the present human condition as seen in other worldly contexts. It's at its worst when Spock takes dancing lessons. There's only 16 more episodes, and they will waste a lot of time with Spock's love life.

I vaguely remember slash. That was pre-internet fan-fiction, yes? People had some weird ideas that Kirk and Spock were lovers. Perhaps it was one of those parallel universes. There are so many.

That statement wouldn't be so ominous if the writers/directors had some track record of working on another ST series or movie.

Also, I don't think leaning into the comedic and action aspects of the Star Trek universe is an especially wise decision at this point in world events.

Sounds like it will be Star Trek in name only.

There will be only 16 more eps of SNW.

So, these guys made that Dungeons and Dragons movie, which was surprisingly excellent and fun. There's some potential.

The last ST movie was brought to us by the people who do the Fast and Furious movies, and the last ST movie was pretty good.