I’m only on Disc 1, and love it already. Key things to love: the crew members have a serious wow factor going on. They are palpably excited with each new encounter, each chance to try out new toys that were standard issue/old hat even in the original Trek series. Also digging how real “mundane SF” issues are entwined with the character-driven stories, especially the fact that a genuine linguist is part of the crew and having real issues with e.g. conjugations and dialects and vocabulary. As a language nerd myself, how can I not love that?

Getting into the characters is the key to enjoying this series. Having the first 26 episodes on DVD makes that much easier than it would have been viewing this a week at a time on television.

Awesome! This was lot better than I thought it would be. It makes a big difference for me, I guess, not having to sit through a half hour of commercials and being able to watch them back to back in dvd format.