YMMV / Star Trek: New Frontier

• Base-Breaking Character: Burgoyne 172 is someone that many fans like for being a snarky non-binary engineer with a passionate romantic side. Others think their treatment of Doctor Selar borders on, if not crosses sexual harassment.
• Designated Villain: Edward Jellico, until "After the Fall".
• Fair for Its Day: Burgoyne's status as a non-binary gender character is not something that was commonly seen even in science fiction either. However, them being a sex obsessed Jerkass turned some fans off.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Captain Picard eventually does become the Commandant of Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: Picard season 2.
• Shocking Moments: Series average of 2 per book. That's not surprising when we consider some of the content: a giant energy being shaped like a flaming bird, which hatches out of a planet and later impregnates a starship; a one-eyed, one-horned, giant purple people eater; a woman who looks like Lwaxana Troi and Christine Chapel, and is immortal...who then dies, except that her consciousness is now inside a starship; a helmsman who regularly sleeps at his post and is a god, the son of Father Christmas/Odin the All-Father/Zeus; a hermaphrodite chief engineer (hir whole species is hermaphroditic) who impregnates a Vulcan, of all people; and a book partially set inside a pocket universe that is, for all intents and purposes, a jellyfish. Basically, the series is one giant Mind Screw.
• Spiritual Adaptation:
  • The Orville is channeling Galaxy Quest, and this. Similar mix of humor and drama, similar Mood Whiplash, similar classic Star Trek feel, similar Mind Screw concepts, as well as the concept of the Captain's Ex being his first officer.
  • According to Word of God, the Space Academy series were partially inspired by these as the author read them growing up.

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