Why? Nostalgia? I watch old shows all the time, I just watched through all of DS9 for the 6th time or so, but after watching The Wire and Breaking Bad, I gotta say that overall they are much better. Better stories, better acting and no terrible episodes you need to skip to remain sanity.

No. Better writing, better direction, music, acting, style, original ideas. I have seen no new show that would have the direction, style and soundtrack to match Miami Vice or Robin of Sherwood, the quality of story and characters of Babylon 5 and DS9, the originality, style and thought provoking nature of The Prisoner, and so on and on and on. For many of those shows nostalgia isn't a factor at all for me, as I have only seen some (like The Prisoner) for the first time very recently.

I agree - yay!
Forgive the skepticism, but they have burned us quite s few times with crap sandwiches that had Star Trek and Star Wars labels.
Looks to me like the prime directive of this new iteration of trek is to get customers into the CBS streaming service. So if the streaming service doesn't make it, then trek will go down with the ship.

And more curvy female Borgs!

This is the best news I've heard in a long time! Star Trek has been gone from TV for too long and we need a new space exploration show for a new generation of viewers to reinvigorate the imagination and wonder of space; to get people interested in science and to create new technology; to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Live Long and Prosper Goglodytes! January 2017 can't come fast enough! :D

Ok so you have not seen them, that explains it! Watch The Wire and Breaking Bad because those have so much better writing and characters than DS9 or any older show that it is on an entirely new level. And acting... DS9? I am starting to think you are joking. I have to cringe everytime Bashir gets angry and Captain "way to overact, Zoidberg" Sisko is pretty bad,too. This show is only saved by the excellent support roles like Winn, Dukat and the Ferengi. Really all the Treks except the new Enterprise have a pretty terrible cast which is only saved by one or two great actors like Picard or the Voyager Doctor.. Original ideas? Half the episodes or any Trek are rewrites of older shows LOL

JJ has nothing to do with the show, but the co-writer/producer of both movies is the executive producer (maybe even show runner?) of the new series...

"Breaking Bad" was one of the best series I've ever seen.
I usually prefer unknown Japanese stuff when it comes to concept series, but it was top notch.

Yerp, I got all that from reading the article and is why I posted what I did :þ Even though JJ is not a part of it they could still be reminiscent or in the world of the JJ movies (have the same sort of flavor) because of the connection still remaining with the co-writer producer. Hence my skepticism but slightly more open-ness to trying it.
It's obvious you don't know DS9 very well is how all of that reads to me. The writing is fantastic, the characters are all fantastic (you're not really supposed to like Sisko for a bit, as they didn't want to make him "charmingly likable" like the previous captains, and, they are doing something complex with the writing, developing a character, letting you get to know him and like him because of who he really is, not because he is filling some written trope that is meant to be liked.) They do that with all of the characters, really, it's a character-driven, personality-interaction, social-commentary show with tons of great sci-fi ideas to enhance it. It's my favorite (and I think the best!) Star Trek series.

Breaking Bad has ATROCIOUS writing, by the way, they definitely broke bad with their writing. The Wire is superb though.

Congrats to you for being more open than I am capable of. The involvement of Kurtzman (or his pal Orci) makes it (or anything else) an automatic pass for me...

Since no outside US access to ..."all access"... I sadly cant give any support :/

Still, tens of millions watched Into Darkness even though JJ's Star Trek was said to be that. So obviously a lot of people didn't share that opinion.

As long as the clowns who helmed Voyager aren't in charge it may not be terrible. Aw hell no. This one is an even bigger clown. Fuck my life.

Sign of the times? And like others have mentioned, there's plenty of reasons to be skeptical. The last two shows (Voyager and Enterprise) frankly sucked bananas and the new movies, while passable popcorn flicks, don't really "feel" like the Trek of old (and yes, of course nostalgia plays a part in it as well). The audience has grown up, but the franchise was dumbed down. Expectations are accordingly low.