TNG didn’t have cohesive arcs and had its fair share of recycled plots. Are you going to argue it was also bad? Also, it’s a prequel. The entire point of the show is to revisit things but do it through the lens of an earlier and more inexperienced version of humanity.
Season 4 was when the writing improved and started feeling more Star Treky. Yes, there were terrible episodes, especially the series finale, but the average was substantially better. They finally started introducing the early Federation species and working to show how the Federation would form. The Andorian episodes in particular were great. There could have been a lot of great storylines about the Federation learning to work together or how relations with the Klingons and Romulans went south.
TNG didn’t have cohesive arcs and had its fair share of recycled plots. Are you going to argue it was also bad? Also, it’s a prequel. The entire point of the show is to revisit things but do it through the lens of an earlier and more inexperienced version of humanity.
Season 4 was when the writing improved and started feeling more Star Treky. Yes, there were terrible episodes, especially the series finale, but the average was substantially better. They finally started introducing the early Federation species and working to show how the Federation would form. The Andorian episodes in particular were great. There could have been a lot of great storylines about the Federation learning to work together or how relations with the Klingons and Romulans went south.