I was also incredibly skeptical going in. I'm old enough to remember watching TNG on its original broadcast run. I am very much a TOS/TNG/DS9 type of trekkie. So I was probably one of the fans most difficult to win over. I was worried LD was going to be some cynical "Rick and Morty Trek" given the resumes of the production team. I thought it would be just another cynical violent shitheap like Picard or some incoherent soulless technobabble-fest like Discovery. But I was happily very wrong. LD is the right kind of nostalgia, the kind where there's new characters and new stories, but it's true to the spirit of those classic series. And sure, it's a comedy, but it's good comedy and there's lots of good serious plotlines underpinning it all.
Most importantly the writers and the voice actor absolutely know what they are doing with Ensign Beckett Mariner, our main character. Ironically, despite being a cartoon character, she feels real and relatable. A lot of us know someone like her in real life. There's a powerful and beautiful scene later in the series where Mariner is having a heart-to-heart conversation with the most unlikely of therapists. And the dialogue feels so natural and the voice acting so good that you simply forget you're watching a cartoon.
I was also incredibly skeptical going in. I'm old enough to remember watching TNG on its original broadcast run. I am very much a TOS/TNG/DS9 type of trekkie. So I was probably one of the fans most difficult to win over. I was worried LD was going to be some cynical "Rick and Morty Trek" given the resumes of the production team. I thought it would be just another cynical violent shitheap like Picard or some incoherent soulless technobabble-fest like Discovery. But I was happily very wrong. LD is the right kind of nostalgia, the kind where there's new characters and new stories, but it's true to the spirit of those classic series. And sure, it's a comedy, but it's good comedy and there's lots of good serious plotlines underpinning it all.
Most importantly the writers and the voice actor absolutely know what they are doing with Ensign Beckett Mariner, our main character. Ironically, despite being a cartoon character, she feels real and relatable. A lot of us know someone like her in real life. There's a powerful and beautiful scene later in the series where Mariner is having a heart-to-heart conversation with the most unlikely of therapists. And the dialogue feels so natural and the voice acting so good that you simply forget you're watching a cartoon.