I really didn't think a prequel series would work and I was right.They messed about too much with the continuity of the Star Trek universe.IF they had stuck with the limited McGuffins that they had at the beginning of the series i.e.the phasers and the transporter the series would have worked better for me.However they just HAD to drag in time travel yet again as a tired means of varying storylines.This played even more havoc with the recognised timeline as set in previous series.
They had a real opportunity to weave a good sub plot with the eventual acceptance of the vulcans for humans and vice versa but never took it beyond the relationship between the captain and his science officer. I wanted to know more about the eventual setting up of the United Federation of Planets.This would have been where the burgeoning relationship with the Andorians would have been better developed.I also would have loved to have learned more about previously mentioned aliens like the Oriens and the piglike aliens whose species name I have forgotten.
Instead they dragged in a whole lot of aliens that have never been mentioned at any point in the original series thus going off in a direction that took us away from the original premise of the series and employing the cheating use of time travel yet again..It was lazy plotting and scripting.
