I am watching it for the first time. It's actually pretty good. Especially if you read online critics who seem to deeply hate that show. So my question is why? And am I the only one to enjoy it?
I like the characters and cast members in general, but there are just enough elements that ring phony that they are distracting. (I'm also just watching it for the first time, since it popped up on H&I TV.)<p>The dog? No. Jumping into encounters and landing parties with little plan and no caution? No. Bringing the <i>dog</i>? NO. (Heck, I would hope that in a <i>first</i> landing <i>anywhere</i> we would use pressure suits, as much to protect <i>their</i> environment from microbes <i>we</i> might carry as the reverse). Not having shields ready in <i>any</i> encounter until after being fired upon? No. <i>Any</i> amount of battle damage being not only survivable, but <i>repairable in deep space without resupply</i>? No. The Phlox character? Very well done. Jolene Blalock? Yes. Your first officer having only skin-tight uniforms that show off her rather amazing figure? Distractingly unrealistic. I liked the cast a lot, generally speaking, but I've never been a fan of Bakula.<p>Some of the other humanoids they encountered were cartoonish and one-dimensional; others, like the Andorians, were much more complex and believable.<p>(Spoiler) And what they did in the final episode was artificial and left a sour taste. (Were they cancelled, and that was a reaction by the writers/producers out of spite?)