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Originally Posted by photon
A few people I know mentioned this as well, but they all missed the preview for the rest of the season.
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Yeah, I've since learned that's the premise. So I guess the first two episodes are basically back story for the main character?
This is what I mean by it feeling like a Marvel series. Getting right into the skin of one main character who the audience is meant to strongly identify with. I know that's the way a lot of modern narrative works. But it doesn't feel like Trek to me, which is an ensemble show. We'll probably have a couple more episodes of awkward exposition as we introduce a half dozen more characters. The point of a pilot is usually to get that stuff out of the way.
So what was really accomplished in the first two episodes?
* Introduction of main character with some motivational backstory.
* Introduction of Klingons as bad guys.
* Space battle.
It's shaping up to be a series where not much happens in any individual episode. A plot summary of the first two episodes of DS9, for example, would take about 20 paragraphs.