“Some other series also had a bad season 1" is hardly a defence of season 1 itself! At best, it’s a suggestion that DIS may do better, which is indeed quite possible. Also, I find TNG 1 to be better despite more than a few clunkers (the episodic format has this advantage where one can just skip bad episodes, while…

Well, I loved Voyager. Even though I know that The Next Generation was better written and that Voyager has more than its share of clunker episodes, Voyager has become my favourite Star Trek series. It has aged remarkably well, as I have enjoyed discovering during recent marathon viewings on BBC America.

In fact, it would be fair to say that a new Doctor doesn’t truly snap into focus until they’ve gone up against those genocidal pepperpots.