> it just isn't Star Trek
I felt much the same to start with, but by the end of the season I had mostly forgiven it.
At the end of it, my main annoyance is that Those. Are. Not. Klingons.
Whatever they are, they've clearly had a species-wide Groupon deal on massive dental reconstruction surgery.
Not a single one of them can speak without sounding like they're trying to talk around a half-dozen pairs of socks that've been jammed into their mouth, and then had their jaw wired shut.
I'll still not forgive JJ Abrams for his Star Trek 90210 with Super Lens Flares reboot of Trek which completely ignored all the history. Then the obnoxious jerk has the temerity to lie to us outright "No, Bennedict Cumberbatch isn't Khan, it's a surprise!" when the trailers all made that clear.
If he were deliberately trying to sink the series, he couldn't have done a better job.
JJ's Trek Hack-Job is second only to the travesty that was the 2004 I, Robot film.