I haven't watched a run of the above cited fan series; but have caught some bits and pieces and they are very well done and have the feel of the original far more than anything I saw in the sequel series. Any Trek that doesn't descend into techno-babble and has some gold old-fashioned swashbuckling action and an engineer who can fix something by crossing two wires, and not give a 20 minute dissertation about the theory behind it, is Trek, in my book! Next Gen had its moments; but, between college and too many scenes at a conference table and not enough dropkicking Klingons, I just couldn't get into it and the later series had bigger problems, for me. Not that they were badly done; just, they didn't have the same attraction and seemed to be missing what was great about the originals.

One of the things was that original Trek was flawed, but idealistic. For all the talk of the federation and the prime directive, they violated things left and right. They aspired to a utopia, but still had petty officers and diplomats, scheming enemies and misunderstandings. New Trek just came across as a bit more pompous, at times, like the Federation had no issues and it was just the weird, backwards aliens. Once Roddenbery was less involved, that softened a bit; but, I never felt the writing was at the same level as the original. I always felt the books were better than New trek episodes, even the really good ones. Again, an individual episode could be entertaining enough and even quite good; but, it just never felt consistent enough to make me want to tune in every week or every season.

Babylon 5, when it came along, gave me a lot of that and other things that I craved. It had the great character speeches, the "F@#$ YEAH!" moments, the occasionally dodgy effect moment. It wasn't perfect; mankind was still F-ed up, 300 years into the future. Utopias don't come that quickly. People still fear what they don't know and understand. People look for advantages over others. People still play politics. The updated Battlestar Galactica was another that hit with me. I was dismissive when it was being developed and launched; but, when I watched it, I saw they were doing something completely different, but had little nods to the things that were really great in the original. Plus, they didn't try to wrap things up at the end of 52 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I still prefer New Trek tv over the rebooted movies (especially the lack of lens flares and bad science) and even New Trek Movies over New Star Wars Movies.

Thanks for the heads up. Just finished Star Trek Continues. Really enjoyed it except for a few minor quibbles (not tribbles...haha).Hopefully will get to start Star Trek New Voyages soon.

Same here. I bailed out on New Voyages. I found it a little too fan-fictionish, if you see what I mean; in contrast, ST Continues felt like genuine TOS episodes that had never been shot until now.

And yet another great episode of Strange New Worlds. This one hit close to home with me. My mom is in the final stages of Alzheimer's and the loss of her memories is difficult. I can imagine some of her fear and frustration from her sense of loss but not really knowing what she has lost...

This episode wasn't as good as the last few episodes. It leaned too heavily into the humor aspect for me. However I did like most of it. Seeing Spock's Mom and his relationship with her was a big plus. As we get more into this series and it seems to contradict TOS I don't really care. With the big disconnect from the original Enterprise's interior because of better effects I have decided to enjoy the series on its own merits. I don't care if it deviates from "canon". Plus I love this version of Chapel and want to see more of her character. Her and M'Benga characters may be my favorites.

The writing for Spock continues to be pretty bad. The latest episode ends with him saying that Vulcan emotions are more intense than human emotions, which while consistent with past canon undermines the entire premise of the episode. Being entirely human and experiencing these less intense human emotions should make it easier for Spock to suppress them, not harder. Vulcans aren't unemotional because they are born that way like the incubators from Madoka Magica. They are very emotional creatures and go through intense mental training and discipline to suppress their emotions. Becoming human does not cause Spock to suddenly forget all of his training and discipline. They tried to have their cake and eat it too here, but it doesn't work at all.