The cast are all very good at what they do, but nobody is as good as Ethan Peck, who plays Spock. I think when they asked him to play this role, he must have thought "Aha, I can finally just be myself!" because he does not appear to be acting. He's just Spock. It all appears to come so naturally to him, and any scene with him in it is a delight to watch that has me grinning ear to ear. The show has a weird mix of high fidelity expensive CGI graphics, with old filming techniques and camera tricks from the 90's. Things like using strobe lighting for fight scenes, zooming in close to obscure the action, actors taking bad dives... it's all so weirdly in contrast with how high budget the show clearly is. I think they are doing it on purpose, for nostalgia camp. It's great, but I hope they know they don't need to. This show's cast, writers and director are good enough that they can stop harkening back to old Star Trek nostalgia. They can stake out their own new thing now. It doesn't have to be like old Star Trek, they're good enough that I know whatever new ideas they have will be entertaining and fun to watch.

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