Fantastic homage to the original. This is how Star Trek should be
So I just finished watching the first 3 episodes and boy have they nailed it. The Adonais episode story resolution, Orion girl episode was really done well and so touching with the Hulk guy and the sequel to Mirror, Mirror, a classic, were done so amazingly well.
Capt Kirk has Shatner's mannerisms down really well. While his voice isn't as deep as Kirk's his swagger walk and stance and delivery style match Kirk so well. Spock is beginning to grow on me, esp in how he performed in Ep3 Who's the Fairest of them all? His line "captain kirk....I shall consider it" just gave me goosebumps.
Bones was decent but looks like the actor changed in Ep 3. He's a tough one to nail honestly.
Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov esp are done quite well. The new addition in Dr. McKenna is different but I really like her. She gives a nice vibe and looks beautiful and is so wonderfully endowed reminding people of the 60s look even more with their costumes.
The attention to detail in the bridge, sounds, layout, camera angles, camera quality, voice acting, dialogs and general feel of it is just astounding.
I can't imagine how much was spent on all this but I will definitely support them somehow.
They deserve it. Hopefully they also make more.
So far, I'd rate the episodes as :
Ep 1 - Adonais one with the same actor - 9/10
Ep 2 - Lolani with Orion girl - 9.5/10
Ep 3 - Mirror Mirror sequel - 8.5/10 - I was hoping there'd be a final twist and Spock prime would be doing all this for nefarious reasons but given it is Star Trek with happy endings, they went that route. Still, given it is a parallel universe, I was hoping they'd go with a parallel of dark ending.
I am so looking forward to the remaining 8 episodes now. There's 0 ads, no commentary, no comments to distract and just 50-52m of pure awesomeness.
If I were to hazard a guess, the remaining 8 episodes probably cover - Edith Keeler episode followup, the 60s space ship rocket launch followup, Harry Mudd followup, A piece of the action follow up since they promised to check in, Miri follow up maybe and what else am I missing?
Tholian Web follow up? maybe Amoeba one? Or maybe it will be brand new content based on some ancillary characters.
Overall, I'm so glad I found this accidentally. This was truly epic.
Standing claps to all actors and actresses and director and producer and all involved who made this so amazing. I hope the new ST people learn from this. Apart from Strange New Worlds, the other new additions were abysmal trash esp from Discovery which was wretched, illogical and just so bad I turned it off near end of S1. And then the mega turd aka Picard. So sad to see ST reduced to this nonsense when people can make such wonderful content on their own dime and time so true to the original vision. Only SNW is worthy ST.
Midview rating - 9.5/10 for ST: Continues.