Star Trek: Insurrection gave it a score of six out of ten. The British newspaper "The People" also said it was an extended television episode. "The Independent" said that "Insurrection" "never stops being familiarly jolly and antiquated", and called the entire "Star Trek" film franchise "old-fashioned". "The Washington Post" also called the film old fashioned, but "in the best sense of the word", and said that the film did what the "doctor – make that Dr. 'Bones' McCoy – ordered". British journalist Simon Rose, writing for "The Daily Mirror" was more critical of the film, saying that it failed to break the odd-numbered
Star Trek: Discovery previous 700+ episodes of "Star Trek" by taking advantage of the streaming format of All Access and telling a single story arc across the entire first season. He and Kurtzman developed this story from "so many elements of "Star Trek"", taking certain episodes of the original series and using their "DNA" to find "the spirit of what "Star Trek" offers, both in terms of high-concept science fiction storytelling and really wonderful metaphors for the human condition". Berg said that the series' writers "are so in love with" "The Original Series", "The" "Next Generation", and the family aspect of those series,