Star Trek: Discovery

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Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. triadne
    Mar 15, 2023
    1
    There's a lot of issues with discovery but this was at least watchable and quite enjoyable at times.
  2. slicelook
    Feb 17, 2022
    2
    This season went full hollywood sjw with lqbtqt "i identify as whatever, pay attention to me and my irrelevant useless story that has nothing to do with star trek"
  3. roblrich
    Jan 2, 2022
    0
    Seasons One and Two were decent and entertaining. But since this series has turned into a politically correct, think as we do or you are a pig crap show. There is relatively no entertainment value in this series. None. It seems to be more of a liberal, political statement. This is sad, as it has turned my family against the Star Trek genre. Rest in peace, Star Trek. You had a good run.
  4. Alxh
    Dec 17, 2021
    0
    Star trek is not the same as season 1-3 season 4 is just boring and like other views to political correct if this season doesnt improve i wont be back , I’ve always been a treky but this year is boringly very bad
  5. RedShiftXIII
    Dec 2, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm a bit of a trekkie and have watched most of the series throughout my life, but while I may be biased, it's in favor of the shows—I kinda liked Star Trek: Enterprise. With that said, I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that Star Trek: Discovery is a bad show in general.

    Exposition is a massive problem. While they do try to cover it up by inserting it into dialogue, it's as if the core concept of the show is how to fit as much exposition into dialogue as humanly possible. The conversations between characters almost always can be summed up as two robots interacting with each other who both just learned they were programmed with the ability to cry. Furthermore, everything from exposition sloppily hidden in dialogue to stubbing of toes, has to be a massively big deal.

    In the very first episode of this season, it's basically a bunch of fancy special effects and hilariously meaningless conversations: Why are we suppose to care that a captain doesn't want a president on their ship? Why is it a problem enough for a captain to continually openly protest and cause conflict where none needs to be had? Why did a captain ask the f***ing president, if she lied to a dude who was panicking, as if it was important to ask while everything is supposedly on the edge of complete disaster? Why do a bunch of officers ignore their captain when she asked for a status update but they're apparently too busy being dramatically quiet as the hangar burns down? Absolute nuttery.

    It's like they're trying to make a soap opera in space with zero self-awareness. While this may seem like a knock on the actors, the fact that this is consistent with every character, tells me it's a writer/director problem. Maybe I'm wrong, but the end result is the same—it's bad.

    Lack of continuity isn't always a bad thing, but one deeply important concept of the federation is that it's heavily influenced by maritime tradition. There's multiple explicit and implicit reminders of this throughout the IP's history, but Discovery seems to have forgotten that, or doesn't give a crap. It's fine if they want to build on that or even tear it down, but it's fairly obvious the writers didn't make any attempt to learn of Federation or maritime traditions to the point it'd be like a bunch of white guys making a movie about China and never actually researching Chinese culture. This isn't a big deal for ornamental things, but clear insubordination that isn't addressed because nobody knows it's insubordination both misses an opportunity to utilize already built concepts to introduce actual drama and tells us these aren't organized people with rules and regulation—they're just dudes, dudettes and duets, who we are told are smart and happen to be on a ship with some logos on it. Nobody in the show knows the difference between an ensign and the president of the Federation, nobody in the show has even a remote interest in displaying the level of professionalism even the most unprofessional international organization has.

    This isn't Star Trek; it's an exercise in fitting as much exposition into dialogue as possible and drama from nothing . . . with Federation logos. I really wanted this show to be good—that's why I sat through three seasons of it—but I don't think they've learned anything based on the beginning of the fourth season. I hate this show and I hate that i've wasted so much time watching it. I hope I've saved at least one person the trouble.    … Expand
  6. ajewo
    May 25, 2021
    2
    Star Trek: Discovery is primarily about fast-paced action and one big mystery plot for each season rather than episodical mystery, exploration, ethical or social issues. The episodes are not very memorable, unlike other Star Trek series. Discovery is a gritty, non-optimistic version of Star Trek with prequel continuity issues, e.g., the Klingon makeover is just unnecessary, holograms, orStar Trek: Discovery is primarily about fast-paced action and one big mystery plot for each season rather than episodical mystery, exploration, ethical or social issues. The episodes are not very memorable, unlike other Star Trek series. Discovery is a gritty, non-optimistic version of Star Trek with prequel continuity issues, e.g., the Klingon makeover is just unnecessary, holograms, or the "instant everywhere" spore drive. However, some issues will be reverted in the second season.
    If you start to think about the plots for a minute, you will often find many issues that do not add up. Some episodes are so packed with "stuff" and contradictions that I didn't even care to follow the plot in a logical sense anymore. The voice-over pathos inspired by the JJ Abraham movies is just another empty element. And most of the characters are shady (especially in the first season) and unlikable. Some characters become charicatures. Michael Burnham, for example, is supposed to be the hero of the series, but since she's not the captain of the Discovery, she's not in a position to make the big decisions, yet she has all the answers and rebels without consequence (because she's always right in the end).
    As for the production, the series is well done. There are annoyingly overused light glares in the first two seasons, but the costumes, masks, and visuals are very good at movie level. All in all, I wish they had invested the budget in better scripts, stories, and dialogues written by actual science fiction authors.
    I recommend watching the earlier Star Trek series, The Expanse, or The Orville instead.    … Expand
  7. Simon_Says
    Apr 5, 2021
    0
    Malon antimatter waste. Need I say more? The same anti-trek ADHD "nu trek" as the Kelvin crap. AVOID
  8. Mighty_moose416
    Oct 25, 2020
    1
    A chaotic jumbled mess that splurges across the screen with 2 bombastic cgi heavy episodes that are barely coherent and then.... drops that to present you with what is effectively a second pilot. Then they plod along for a while with a war storyline for half a season before picking up a mirror universe storyline. This storyline is better but ends abruptly to take you back to the original storyline
  9. Inferno1102
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I cant stand this sjw crap, star trek has shown kisses yes, but i dont think it ever really followed a relationship as crazy as they follow the engineer guy and yeah its cause they are gay you want to follow a good example of a relationship to follow withiut making it sjw bs try mimicing paris and belona(sp?) From voyager. Season three possibe spoiler next. Then youre going to have two entire parts about a trans trill man, this crap is to much stop focusing on the stuff you want it in fine, if gender equality is a thing in the future there will be no focus itll just be normal, people wont caee, but nope you have to social justice warrior bulls**** it this is why real trekkies wont watch discovery.… Expand
  10. Acquire
    Jan 16, 2020
    0
    Just awful. This is not Star Trek. There's no exploration, barely any story, sci fi is just the background. There is nothing thought provoking about what's happening. This show is careless with its treatment of the Star Trek universe. Characters, their interactions, the technology, it's all absurd and makes no sense given how close it is to the original series. Feels like a bad war actionJust awful. This is not Star Trek. There's no exploration, barely any story, sci fi is just the background. There is nothing thought provoking about what's happening. This show is careless with its treatment of the Star Trek universe. Characters, their interactions, the technology, it's all absurd and makes no sense given how close it is to the original series. Feels like a bad war action space show.… Expand
  11. Vulcan123
    Apr 20, 2019
    1
    Fine actors, terrible writing. The worst of the writing includes nauseous bickering, pseudo-scientific senseless **** and long melodromatic eye-squirting and nose-running attempts at soul-baring speeches when there's 90 seconds until the Apocalypse or some other crisis. The writer/s seem to have one or another agenda that they want to cram down the viewers' throats; what the hell, StarFine actors, terrible writing. The worst of the writing includes nauseous bickering, pseudo-scientific senseless **** and long melodromatic eye-squirting and nose-running attempts at soul-baring speeches when there's 90 seconds until the Apocalypse or some other crisis. The writer/s seem to have one or another agenda that they want to cram down the viewers' throats; what the hell, Star Trek it is emphatically not. Vulcans and Klingons ruined. It's an outrage to do this kind of thing to a much-loved and revered legend-status show. I only registered with Metacritic so that I could add my thumbs down to this ghastly series. I certainly hope it is over at the end of season 2; if it hasn't died yet then I certainly won't be watching any more.… Expand
  12. Bagaloosh
    Apr 15, 2019
    0
    Terrible! Really terrible! The worst Star Trek series ever, for me as a Trekky every episode hurts more. I'm already wondering what I can give my son as justification for this.
  13. Startrekmickie
    Apr 12, 2019
    3
    We were so happy to see this produced and presented but we can barely watch it for the overwhelming volume of the music during dialogue. Likely done for dramatic effect it has become so distracting we are considering stopping watching it. We have subtitles on but you cannot hear the dialogue at certain time because the volume of the music takes over the entire scene. Please correctWe were so happy to see this produced and presented but we can barely watch it for the overwhelming volume of the music during dialogue. Likely done for dramatic effect it has become so distracting we are considering stopping watching it. We have subtitles on but you cannot hear the dialogue at certain time because the volume of the music takes over the entire scene. Please correct it...we love the show and the new twists and turns but will have to stop watching and subscribing if this issue is not corrected.… Expand
  14. xargon
    Apr 11, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A Star Trek which is NOT Star Trek. Poor story, poor scripting, poor haircuts (i'm talking to you Kirk). No emotional attachment to the characters, background stories for most of the characters are shallow. Instead of focusing on solid story, creators decided to show "political correctness" (especially in Season 2). Story telling is mixed and chaotic. The show is a major letdown for all Star Trek fans and for all casual and not-so hardcore Star Trek fans. You can skip this one, you won't loose much.… Expand
  15. Kabindas
    Apr 10, 2019
    1
    It was painful to watch each episode with so much liberal SJW crap propaganda. And by the way the first officer, Michael fits just right in, is annoying overbearing and arrogant like a typical snowflake.
  16. blatalinak
    Apr 7, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I honestly don't know how they could have messed up this show any worse and I am heart broken about it. I watch Star Trek when I've had a bad day and need to chill. This isn't Star Trek. It's the Michael Burnham super hero hour. Michael knows everything and can solve everything. She is Wesley Crusher to the 10th power. She's even much smarter than Spock. She is the most unlikable, uninteresting hero I've ever seen. I know nothing about the rest of the crew. I barely know their names. It's all Michael all the time. . She mutinies against her captain, causes a war, gets a bunch of people killed, is raised a Vulcan but cannot control her emotions and at the end of the day she comes out smelling like a rose? Also everyone is madly in love with her or interested in her. Why are they pushing this so hard? It doesn't work! I don't blame the actress I blame the writers.

    Klingons are not blue or clear. There are so many races they had to work with. There are races on Stark Trek that were only shown once over the years and never again. These stories on TNG, DS9 and Voyager were so compelling and profound. I wondered why they were never mentioned again. They could have easily picked up one of them and continued with their story. Why did they have to mess up the Klingons?

    I don't think this show can be saved. This show should cease immediately. They should act like it's the Wolverine Origins movie or the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie. It never happened. Forget about it. Make a new story with new actors and new characters. Here's an idea. Let's go FORWARD in the story. No more prequels for a long time. Please stop with the identify politics. No one wants to be preached at. As a woman I can say I love Captain Janeway, Dr. Crusher, Officer Uhura, Kira Nerys, 7 of 9 and Guinan. Jazdea Dax is my favorite character in all of Star Trek. Please get rid of the Michael Bernham show and review your prior successful female characters going forward.    … Expand
  17. Wraithvenge
    Apr 4, 2019
    1
    What.. The.. Disaster is this?? I'm a huge Star Trek fan and I don't know what this is but it's not trek. Yes, this show has fantastic visuals and CGI, but looking pretty and being an entertaining show are two different things. There are so many serious issues with this dumpster fire that I'd have to write a novel to cover just half of it.

    1) It completely destroys Canon. This show is    What.. The.. Disaster is this?? I'm a huge Star Trek fan and I don't know what this is but it's not trek. Yes, this show has fantastic visuals and CGI, but looking pretty and being an entertaining show are two different things. There are so many serious issues with this dumpster fire that I'd have to write a novel to cover just half of it.

    1) It completely destroys Canon. This show is supposed to be set a couple decades before TOS, but they somehow have tech that outpaces even DS9 (comm badges, hologram communications etc). Section 31, which is so secret no one has ever heard of them, yet they practically shout it to everyone. They even have badges proclaiming it.

    2) Complete focus on one character. This show should be called Star Trek: Burnham, because that's the only one that gets any decent screen time, and she's a total Mary Sue. Even after committing mutiny, she's still the one giving orders. Everything is about what she wants, in this last episode pike just fumbles around practically just asking Burnham if it's ok he act as a captain. There's no longer the ensemble crew focus like Trek of old. Even JJ verse knew better.

    3) The overwhelming leftist agenda. Trek has always had the socialist utopia (which is ok when you have unlimited resources and can make anything basically out of thin air), but previous trek had their politics in the background. Star Trek: Burnham beats you over the head with it. From woman with a man's name to Mary Sue needs no one to no white men in the bridge crew (until Pike, who get totally emasculated) to in your face interracial gay couple, the list goes on. This also ties into the harassment and shaming of any fan who disagrees with any of the SJW politics or just hates what they've done to Trek. This includes the typical racist/sexist/whatever -ist/phobe insults in "blame the fan" tactics that have spread to many franchises ruined by SJW politics (ie Star Wars, Ghostbusters, MCU, Dr Who).

    All in all, we were sold on reviving Trek, but all we got was a bait and switch. Instead we got over the top, in your face, beat you over the head SJW propaganda that if we speak up about it, we get insulted/attacked/and even de-platformed. Lord knows what terrible things they have planned for Picard.

    I give this show a 1 cause the CGI is nice.    … Expand
  18. v3nt
    Mar 31, 2019
    2
    More about the character' brothers, sisters or whatever's than any type of discovery. It is too character driven and most of them are quite annoying. Almost every story arc is about them. General story line seems a few steps back compared to the originals. Secret factions, alternate realities...
  19. An1
    Mar 29, 2019
    0
    Don't waste one minute of your precious time watching this even if they pay you a fortune to watch it.
  20. bongwater
    Mar 25, 2019
    0
    This isn't star trek, if you liked the old star trek, you won't like this.
    If you hated the old shows, then you might like this one.
  21. cjkrieger
    Mar 23, 2019
    1
    This is NOT Star trek, this is Sci Fi but not Star Trek. I just can't stand watching it. Please PLEASE remove it from the air.
  22. Cloudstone10
    Mar 18, 2019
    0
    Don't you think I am able to read and write?
    Without Tilly it is just a ****
  23. Flex1988
    Mar 17, 2019
    1
    It has Star Trek vocabulary and symbols but that’s all. “Something Trek, the Michael Burnham Show”, is lacily written and sometimes outride insulting to the viewer as it does not adherer to any internal logic. The acting is not to blame, however most of the characters are written into a corner, especially Martin-Green’s Burnham who is swinging from extreme to extreme. There are someIt has Star Trek vocabulary and symbols but that’s all. “Something Trek, the Michael Burnham Show”, is lacily written and sometimes outride insulting to the viewer as it does not adherer to any internal logic. The acting is not to blame, however most of the characters are written into a corner, especially Martin-Green’s Burnham who is swinging from extreme to extreme. There are some redeeming moments and characters, for example captain Pike in season 2 but it’s not enough to offset the rest. This shows apparent mission to screw over the continuity of every Star Trek Show to date, making “Star Trek Enterprise” look tame in comparison. Even the overarching Story’s don’t work, as they are not paced and are illogical at the best of times. If it is considered as something other then Star Trek it could pass as a mediocre show, but as a Star Trek series it is a fail.… Expand
  24. deltagilbert
    Mar 17, 2019
    3
    There's so much to dislike about this show. It's Star Trek in name only. Everything in this show blue. It looks awful. The dialogue is terrible. Conversations between characters are forced and awkward as the writers try to make them sound witty with short sentences delivered at lightening pace. They just sound stupid. No one talks like that.

    It's just generally not very good. Just    There's so much to dislike about this show. It's Star Trek in name only. Everything in this show blue. It looks awful. The dialogue is terrible. Conversations between characters are forced and awkward as the writers try to make them sound witty with short sentences delivered at lightening pace. They just sound stupid. No one talks like that.

    It's just generally not very good. Just cancel it and start again.    … Expand
  25. James897
    Mar 16, 2019
    1
    This show is awful. The acting is horrendous. Why does the main character, Michael, always whisper? The actress that plays Michael is also terrible, overacting doesn't even begin to describe her skillset. The story is terrible, you find yourself constantly screaming simple solutions at the screen to their idiotic mega-dramatic problems. Just so bad, only good for wasting time or background noise.
  26. JerryW
    Mar 14, 2019
    2
    Although this show acts like it is Star Trek, it changed many of the main premises of the show. It is dark, full of drama, focused on personal issues more than science fiction. If it was named anything else, I would have given it an average score. As a Star Trek show, I cannot give it more than 2. Most of the science in the show does not stand in the face of Star Trek's usual science.Although this show acts like it is Star Trek, it changed many of the main premises of the show. It is dark, full of drama, focused on personal issues more than science fiction. If it was named anything else, I would have given it an average score. As a Star Trek show, I cannot give it more than 2. Most of the science in the show does not stand in the face of Star Trek's usual science. Also, how about that Klingon speech? It sounds like a robit trying to speak Klingon...… Expand
  27. RubMan
    Mar 13, 2019
    1
    Every 5-10 minutes a character will yell rudely at another or act extremely juvenile. There's so many emotional outbursts. Like so much TV, melodrama is everywhere. The sci-fi pushes artistic license too far without the kitsch of earlier Treks to act as a buffer. On the plus side, it's nice to see homosexual characters and for Michelle Yeoh to be able to use her Malay accent.
  28. dk150968
    Mar 11, 2019
    2
    I seriously gave this show a chance, but after few episodes I've given up. no more thank you.
    No likeable characters, written by people that don't know anything about Star Trek. I have watched all Star Trek spin offs and this one is the worst. If you want to see what it should be like watch "The Orville"
    A Star Trek we should have got and not this PC garbage,,,,,,,,
  29. 40whitemale
    Mar 11, 2019
    2
    This show is just terrible. No, I am not saying this out of my anger or white male frustration. I am saying this after watching great televosion like GoT, The Orville, The Xpanse, Umbrella Academy or even small shows like Mum (Yes, all female cast, no feminist agenda, just pure fun!). Discovery lacks of everything - accept budget. No story, just ploholes. No good writing, just bad acting.This show is just terrible. No, I am not saying this out of my anger or white male frustration. I am saying this after watching great televosion like GoT, The Orville, The Xpanse, Umbrella Academy or even small shows like Mum (Yes, all female cast, no feminist agenda, just pure fun!). Discovery lacks of everything - accept budget. No story, just ploholes. No good writing, just bad acting. No tansion, just headaches. I can only remember the name of the (eh!) female "Michael" (I guess it is because this is my name, too. Damn!

    While I really dislike the real "real" ST (Kirk & Spok) I loved TNG, liked DS9, accepted The Voyager and loved again: The Enterprise. And while Discovery tries to tell the story (again) what happened before Picard & Co, this has been done in great and much "on point" way by Ct. Archer. So please spend that huge budget on more seasons, less effects and mooooore story. Spare the politics agenda and give us real politics (like in TNG) and social relevance. Diversity can only be installed or "lived" while we tell diverse stories with diverse indiciduals in diverse communities. Discovery is nothing of that.

    After The Orville with this seasone has elevated us into something I would not expect - a real joy of exciting TV-watching - I rewatched episode 4 of Discovery to decide, is it me ... or WTF is going on? And then: I quit the show. I don't want to be lectured, yelled et, preached, bombarded by lense flares or rush from a plothole to another. It is not me, it is you, baby. - Live shor, and definitely not prosper.    … Expand
  30. addict-insane
    Mar 9, 2019
    1
    There are so many good writers in this world. Is Hollywood allergic to them?
  31. russellpeach
    Mar 7, 2019
    1
    This is the worst star trek series EVER. This isn't even real star trek. This is prime, we want cannon. The directing is bad, the writing is inconsistent, incoherent and amaturish. Most of the actors are useless. The lead is such a mary sue that that she's SO unlikable she needs killing off as soon as possible. This series has NOTHING to do with the hopeful greatness of Gene Roddenberry'sThis is the worst star trek series EVER. This isn't even real star trek. This is prime, we want cannon. The directing is bad, the writing is inconsistent, incoherent and amaturish. Most of the actors are useless. The lead is such a mary sue that that she's SO unlikable she needs killing off as soon as possible. This series has NOTHING to do with the hopeful greatness of Gene Roddenberry's real Star Trek. I will stay with all the original series and The Orville which is the real successor to Star Trek.… Expand
  32. PGTips5nz
    Mar 7, 2019
    0
    Star Trek: Diversity. Absolutely terrible. Watched the first few episodes, but had to switch it off after that. SJW nonsense.
  33. Mathias01
    Mar 2, 2019
    1
    This is not Star Trek. This is Social Justice Trek through and through. I liked them all. TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager (who had a female captain I admired) and Enterprise. Those were Star Trek series. Those were the visions of Gene Roddenberry. This show? God almighty the political undertones are enough to make a person sick. Has every tv show and movie been corrupted by toxic SJW nonsense? STDThis is not Star Trek. This is Social Justice Trek through and through. I liked them all. TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager (who had a female captain I admired) and Enterprise. Those were Star Trek series. Those were the visions of Gene Roddenberry. This show? God almighty the political undertones are enough to make a person sick. Has every tv show and movie been corrupted by toxic SJW nonsense? STD certainly lives up to its abbreviation. Hard pass.… Expand
  34. jimjohnson3311
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    I waited until it came out on Blu Ray. I have been a Star Trek fan for decades... that died with discovery
  35. GodBeliever
    Feb 15, 2019
    0
    Worst star trek of all series, and here is reasons:
    1. Plot. Who was writing it? you haven`t talent for it, change your profession.
    The start of tv show, klingons reasons for war - the Federation want to tarnish our culture. As for me, it isn`t enough to start war, if they said - they have resources and we need it and it worth to fight for it, then i will agree. Another thing, when they    Worst star trek of all series, and here is reasons:
    1. Plot. Who was writing it? you haven`t talent for it, change your profession.
    The start of tv show, klingons reasons for war - the Federation want to tarnish our culture. As for me, it isn`t enough to start war, if they said - they have resources and we need it and it worth to fight for it, then i will agree. Another thing, when they obtained intel data, they could just transmit it, how did they talk to the base and cannot send them the information? There is no logic here.
    I liked the plot about another universe and another earth, but they dropped it in next moment, because the Federation as timid as mouse and cannot kill the enemy by using any method. How did this organization was able to survive util now.
    2. Gay story. The scenario writer must die. I cannot endure to watch it, if you want to create film for gays, then do it in films only for gays.
    3. It was so uninteresting plot that i skipped time, when i watched series.
    And the last one about gay story line - they were able to transform a klingon into a human, but they unable to change DNA of gays to cure them, if you will ask Vulcans about it, they will die because there is no logic here.    … Expand
  36. Doctor_GLaDOS
    Feb 14, 2019
    1
    This is not Star Trek. It doesn't matter what the title says or what the costumes look like, this simply is nothing like any Trek show before it. The main character is uninteresting and unlikable. She ignores orders from her superiors yet doesn't ever get into trouble for it (at least nothing of consequence). Everything she does always go her way because she is a total Mary Sue. Has theThis is not Star Trek. It doesn't matter what the title says or what the costumes look like, this simply is nothing like any Trek show before it. The main character is uninteresting and unlikable. She ignores orders from her superiors yet doesn't ever get into trouble for it (at least nothing of consequence). Everything she does always go her way because she is a total Mary Sue. Has the emotional capability of a food replicator yet most of the episodes focus on her internal struggle. Side characters are furniture for the Star Trek setting. Storylines are uninspired, shallow and don't say anything. Instead, it tries to compensate with pretty visuals, and that is not enough.
    I would give this show a 4 or maybe even a 6 if it was a standalone flick. Instead, this takes a huge dump on the legacy of Gene Roddenberry. It's way too dark, depressing, stupid, shallow and uninteresting. Burnham is not Kathryn Janeway. I cried when I thought Jonathan Archers dog was going to die. Therefore I had more of an emotional investment in Star Trek Enterprises dog that I have for the main character of this show. I used to be excited about the new star trek. But now I wish some Q would erase this mess before it completely destroys the hopeful and uplifting legacy of The Star Fleet. Go watch The Orville, it is what this show could never be.    … Expand
  37. celta
    Feb 12, 2019
    0
    Not Star Trek, Uninspiring, unoriginal, boring and dull.
    I really really wanted to like this show, but the fact is: it's just not Star Trek
    Terrible characters, bad acting, boring story, obvious political implications and enforced diversity
  38. grovian
    Feb 11, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is like a badly written fan fic. Everyone is an idiot (at least some of them gets killed for their stupidity), not one character is likable. This is not the Starfleet i know for decades, and it was never like this even at their lowest (ex: Dominion war). Star Trek was always about the bright future and (ironically) discovery. It was about curiosity, to wonder at the universe. ST had shown the best of humanity a future we can aspire for. But not this series. This is just a generic sci-fi with a Star Trek skin on it. None of these characters would have made trough Starfleet academy even just a few years later...

    The Expanse is way better at being a sci-fi with much better stories to tell.

    The Metacritic page says this: "Summary: 10 years before the Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery sets out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."
    Except nothing of this is true.

    SPOILERS
    The ship sets out to war and jumps all over the place with a new drive tech which is a bad joke (at least a little bit of sci-fi is in it).

    Some things the protagonist did at the outset of the series:
    - She (Michael) disregard for orders after Captain Geogiou stated to simply do a flyby of the alien ship/probe/whatever. There was no "exceed this mandate at your discretion" clause. She consciously disobeyed and landed
    - She then, instead of avoiding the Klingon warrior's defense by moving in any other way, she chose to surge forward into him and killed the warrior
    - She then proceeded to incapacitate her own superior or commandeered her ship
    - Then she murdered the Klingon boss (her weapon was on stun during the boarding of the Klingon vessel, but she had set it to kill and then shot this dude on purpose (while the whole purpose of the boarding was to capture the guy, which would have been possible even after the captains death, but she choose to kill the Klingon))

    Are we supposed to like this character? She should be in jail for her crimes (she even gets a life sentence but they just wave it, cause she got plot-shield).    … Expand
  39. poisoner
    Feb 9, 2019
    0
    Having the rights to use the name Star Trek does not equate to making a show be Star Trek. This is not Star Trek, this is nonsense, absolute unfaithful lore disregarding nonsense, made as a cheap cash in.

    All real Trekkies know what Star Trek is. This is not Star Trek. This is Star Trek: Star Trek The Original Series. Star Trek The Next Generation. Star Trek Voyager. Star Trek    Having the rights to use the name Star Trek does not equate to making a show be Star Trek. This is not Star Trek, this is nonsense, absolute unfaithful lore disregarding nonsense, made as a cheap cash in.

    All real Trekkies know what Star Trek is. This is not Star Trek.

    This is Star Trek:

    Star Trek The Original Series.
    Star Trek The Next Generation.
    Star Trek Voyager.
    Star Trek Deep Space 9.
    Star Trek Enterprise.
    The Orville

    This is not Star Trek:

    The lense flair one with the fake Spok. (teen action space adventure)
    The other fake lense flair one. (teen action space adventure 2)
    This one. (walking dead lady in space messing up lore)
    Any other one that is not on the previous list.    … Expand
  40. P4inskiller
    Feb 2, 2019
    3
    Beverly Hills 90210-Star Trek. This is real "2019" Star Trek....a lot of "Me too", woman power, feelings and emotions - even the Klingons..?! People in 400 years will not be like this! To strange, unrealistic, stupid and therefore nothing for me. I hope the Picard show will be less stupid...
  41. danmanx
    Feb 2, 2019
    0
    This. This show. I can't even begin to tell you how bad it is. I'm not even going to talk about canon. It was the worst experience I've had all year. From the first pathetic episode of this terribly-written show, it was a complete disaster and dumpster fire. Nothing. Nothing makes any coherent sense in this useless, worthless waste of time. Thank God I have a job and work for aThis. This show. I can't even begin to tell you how bad it is. I'm not even going to talk about canon. It was the worst experience I've had all year. From the first pathetic episode of this terribly-written show, it was a complete disaster and dumpster fire. Nothing. Nothing makes any coherent sense in this useless, worthless waste of time. Thank God I have a job and work for a living, so I could get my mind off of this show. I thought about it for days on how they destroyed my entire favorite franchise with over-the-top dramatic action, overwhelming violence, infighting on bridge, dutch angles, lens flares and poorly written characters. Michael Burnham should be erased and completely forgotten and ignored in this fake "prime" timeline. Nothing makes any sense in this show. There is no happiness, no joy, no love in this chaotic, formulaic dystopian future. There is no world view of Earth whatsoever in this entire series. It's all dark and desperately trying to be edgy. It appears also to be made with agendas and those that do not even care for Star Trek. Would you have a mechanic fix your car or an artist? Obviously, the writers have meticulously destroyed any hope of this bomb being a success. I will never pay CBS a single dime for this show or any CBS All Access crap. Kurtzman, should be fired. CBS, you really, really, really need to focus more on your IPs and not let them be corrupted and manipulated by charlatans.… Expand
  42. wodan1234
    Feb 2, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To give it 2 points is way to gentle. it deserved MINUS-12 !

    So far i watched all of season 1 and all of what we got so far for season 2.
    Thankfully i escaped the Short Treks, because Netflix Germany wasn't stupid enough to take them AS PRESENT!
    And not only did it got worse, for example the weird religious stuff that doesn't belong in Trek or to Captain Pike. (Who is neither very religious nor a "fun guy" on duty).
    Or the unstable psycho-killer named Spock.
    Yes, yes THAT HAPPENED! Hes a Psycho killer according to STD.

    Watching episode 3 however really killed all hope, that this show will get any better. The Kling-Orcs ( Who seem to live in 8th Century, Valhalla) look worse than ever with hair.
    Nope.

    "Space Hitler" now rules the "Space Gestapo" (Section 31) , without any reasoning as to how they gave her that posting.

    And that stupid Ghost-friend that Tilly met, just went full bor racist, when she was expecting Lorca or "at least Kirk"( How did she even know him? Even Tilly doesn't know him!)
    By describing James. T Kirk, as the "Much whiter and much much blonder" GUY.
    #TheUeberArian.

    Also that fake body positivity theme, really went sour when chubby Tilly outran an entire staff of much slimmer and fitter extras, in a half marathon.
    Which she should have lost, for falling back and talking with her Ghost-Friend.
    And you could actually see how those extras did "run" extra slow.
    But off course, afterwards she got the SJW typical, "TRIPPLE AFFIRMATION!" within 2 Minutes.
    Oh yeah, that "Friend" of hers, was actually a "Spore infection".
    What the hell?

    Also "off course" ;) Burnham, not only is a splendid astronomer, test-pilot, Power-Girl (For surviving 9 G for ELEVEN Minutes!) Nooo! Oh no... That wouldn't be sufficient for "the bestest person Evaaar".
    She's also a "Xeno-Antropologist"... Ja...
    **** you CBS...

    "Jim! Its Dead!"    … Expand
  43. CCColeman
    Feb 1, 2019
    0
    I have been attacked for not liking STD. I am told that Gene Roddenberry was a SJW. Let's take a look.
    Here is the SJW that created Star Trek.
    Gene was a pilot in WW2 and a decorated veteran. He worked in the Los Angeles Police Department. He honed his writing craft writing speeches for the Police Department then moving into Hollywood scripts; mostly in Westerns, Police Procedurals,    I have been attacked for not liking STD. I am told that Gene Roddenberry was a SJW. Let's take a look.
    Here is the SJW that created Star Trek.
    Gene was a pilot in WW2 and a decorated veteran. He worked in the Los Angeles Police Department. He honed his writing craft writing speeches for the Police Department then moving into Hollywood scripts; mostly in Westerns, Police Procedurals, and Cop Shows. Star Trek was born of two shows one he wrote for was about a US Marine Corp base that was made and the other was about a muli-ethnic crew of an Airship in the 1930's that traveled the World that was not made.
    Any signs of SJW yet?
    In the 1st season of TOS he enlisted Harlan Ellison to promote the show. At the time Harlan was considered liberal but at the time of death he was hounded by the hashtag me too movement for playing a practical joke on a woman.
    Roddenberry injected Patriotic and Christian themes into TOS through out it's run. He hired and encourage Nichelle Nichols to stay on the series even before the MLK call. Through out his life he was a sexual libertine with an open relationship with his wives. Raised a Southern Baptist but later in life considered himself a Humanist and sometimes even a Pagan but still contributed to Churches and advocated Christian and Moral themes in television shows.
    Gene never wore a Man Bun, ate Soy, or considered himself a Socialist.
    Gene had all the Marks of Cain for a SJW; he was White, Male, Hetero, a Veteran, a Cop, and a Patriot.
    Gene would have considered STD an abomination and a cancer on television if he had lived to see it.
    It is void of any on his establishing values and ethics.    … Expand
  44. DeaconJester
    Feb 1, 2019
    1
    Night time soap opera with prosthetics and FX is not how I imagined STD would return in 2019. Episode 1 was a decent enough beginning to season 2 and I was looking forward to finding out more. What I found was a lot of over wrought exposition signifying nothing. I'm all for dialogue but dialogue that doesn't advance a story or a plot or understanding of a character is mere noise with noNight time soap opera with prosthetics and FX is not how I imagined STD would return in 2019. Episode 1 was a decent enough beginning to season 2 and I was looking forward to finding out more. What I found was a lot of over wrought exposition signifying nothing. I'm all for dialogue but dialogue that doesn't advance a story or a plot or understanding of a character is mere noise with no signal. I am not sure if I'll bother any more and I'm a lifelong Star Trek fan who watched the original series when it was originally broadcast.… Expand
  45. MichaelDorosh
    Feb 1, 2019
    1
    I didn't make it through the pilot. The set design, costumes, casting and writing all seem like a mess and seem completely unconnected to the existing ST universe. I could have watched Star Trek Continues for years. I won't be watching Discovery.
  46. frankthetank420
    Jan 28, 2019
    0
    This show is absolute trash, such a far shot away from what Star Trek is really supposed to be about. The overall story is weak, and I don't find any of the characters particularly likable. I wish they would go back to their roots, and focus on some of the things that made Star Trek great.
  47. startreksucks
    Jan 26, 2019
    0
    Season 2 os STD (what an acronym) started poorly. Look at episode two for example. It is a reboot/recycle of other episodes in the franchise, i.e. "Northern Star" (Star Trek Enterprise) and "The 37" (Star Trek Voyager). We pay money for Netflix subscriptions for this. People would expect the show creators to come up with something original, but their minds are so preoccupied with politicalSeason 2 os STD (what an acronym) started poorly. Look at episode two for example. It is a reboot/recycle of other episodes in the franchise, i.e. "Northern Star" (Star Trek Enterprise) and "The 37" (Star Trek Voyager). We pay money for Netflix subscriptions for this. People would expect the show creators to come up with something original, but their minds are so preoccupied with political correctness and making sure that the actors excel at being bad at acting.
    Martin-Green is not a brilliant actress and she does not bring something unique to the show. She just hangs around, acts bossy and all knowing (a cheap imitation of a true Vulcan) and she constantly disobeys orders or she constantly challenges them. She is like one of those nagging kids that keeps asking "Why" just to annoy you. The woman that plays ensign Tilly is another bad example at acting, besides being goofy, I have never met a cadet with that behavior in the entire Star Trek franchise.

    There is no proper chief engineer on the ship, only wannabes that make use of techno babble and not Sci Fi (usually one employs a scientific consultant on the show, or else you end up with **** like an asteroid traveling at 5000 km/s). I know Star Trek is Sci Fi, but it should push this boundary as close to real science as possible. Just to give people the idea that science is cool, but science needs to be cool and palpable, not crap said by some show creator that has not read a science book since fifth grade.

    The show also follows the White Man Bad trend that engulfs the end of the second decade of this century. The fewer white people in the cast, the better.    … Expand
  48. WJF3
    Jan 25, 2019
    3
    In Star Trek there is no main character, and anyone can be a hero (Reginald Barclay). In Star Trek Discovery there is only Michael Burnham. The whole series is about her. She is the Main character; the smartest, the toughest and the hero every time. It begins to become predictable. And where is the delight and playfulness that we all love about Star Trek? Discovery takes itself tooIn Star Trek there is no main character, and anyone can be a hero (Reginald Barclay). In Star Trek Discovery there is only Michael Burnham. The whole series is about her. She is the Main character; the smartest, the toughest and the hero every time. It begins to become predictable. And where is the delight and playfulness that we all love about Star Trek? Discovery takes itself too serious. I tried to be positive about Discovery, and I keep trying to stick with it, but watching it has become too laborious. I hope that this is not Star Trek's last act, that would be embarrassing. J.J. Abrams please make another movie.… Expand
  49. tremault
    Jan 20, 2019
    0
    There's a lot of issues with discovery but this was at least watchable and quite enjoyable at times.
  50. TheSHO
    Jan 19, 2019
    1
    I am done after watching the 5th episode of the 1st season. Are you kidding me?! I let most of the things that I didn't like go. But when you have a very unlikable chief engineer (who is gay) and a very forgettable lead doctor (who is also gay) being shoved down our throats (pun intended) by the liberal Hollywood as a couple, that is when I am done. I am so sick and tired of HollywoodI am done after watching the 5th episode of the 1st season. Are you kidding me?! I let most of the things that I didn't like go. But when you have a very unlikable chief engineer (who is gay) and a very forgettable lead doctor (who is also gay) being shoved down our throats (pun intended) by the liberal Hollywood as a couple, that is when I am done. I am so sick and tired of Hollywood making everything about PC. Every single character is unlikable. The only one that is decent is the main character and they made her name Michael. Sigh, really? Just had to show us that gender and names don't mean anything, They are all interchangeable, right hollyweird? Other then forgettable and unlikable characters, you have horrible special effects for the space scenes. The older Star Treks looked soooo much better when there was no Computer technology. And don't get me started on the Klingons. The only good thing I would say this series has is the nice indoor set pieces. That is about it. Oh and one more thing. Isn't this show suppose to be before Enterprise? If so, why do they have so much more technology then Enterprise? Just doesn't make sense.

    I hope to God that the new one with Picard is better.    … Expand
  51. NeuroWeaver
    Jan 18, 2019
    0
    I was so eager for this, even after the endless pre-production problems kept leaking. Unfortunately, I had to give up after Episode 5.

    If they wanted to make a new space battle SciFi show, it would still bomb, but a t least it would had made so many people angry. No matter how ones tries to approach this, ST:D is NOT Star Trek in any sense of the words. Illogical, disrespectful to    I was so eager for this, even after the endless pre-production problems kept leaking. Unfortunately, I had to give up after Episode 5.

    If they wanted to make a new space battle SciFi show, it would still bomb, but a t least it would had made so many people angry. No matter how ones tries to approach this, ST:D is NOT Star Trek in any sense of the words.

    Illogical, disrespectful to fans and new viewers alike, unnecessary R-rated, hijacked by SJWs to promote their fringe propaganda of forced normalcy, no amount of cannibalizing the past can save it.

    An utter failure not worthy of anyone's time and money.    … Expand
  52. markbrak
    Jan 18, 2019
    0
    This is not Star Trek. This is generic scifi with bad writing. It is nonsensical and combative. This is not the hopeful vision of the future that Gene Roddenberry had.
  53. ghostalker
    Jan 18, 2019
    0
    The story is far more involved with the MIchael Burnham character and forgoing the other characters and storyline. Discovery has now become too far fetched and has very little to do with Star Trek and feels more like a space version of Alley Mcbeal.
  54. Poincare
    Jan 17, 2019
    0
    Not sure who the dimwits are that keep commenting "best trek ever." Even the critics have their heads up their arses thinking this is a solid re-imagining of Star Trek. While they are to be commended on the diversity of cast, the story lines, unfolding plot arcs, and conceptualization are terrible. i have been a Star Trek fan for over 40 years, and can firmly say this season (ST:D S01) isNot sure who the dimwits are that keep commenting "best trek ever." Even the critics have their heads up their arses thinking this is a solid re-imagining of Star Trek. While they are to be commended on the diversity of cast, the story lines, unfolding plot arcs, and conceptualization are terrible. i have been a Star Trek fan for over 40 years, and can firmly say this season (ST:D S01) is just a sh!tplie. Critics also need to get facts correct, Voyager was the first Star Trek with a leading female, not this horsepucky. DS9 also had several leading females and diversity in cast as well. The Star Trek universe is not about war and conquest, it is exploration and cooperation. Furthermore, Tilly is NOT a universally acclaimed "fan favorite". Do you ever hear what the fanbase is saying? Most fans agree that Michelle Yeoh does a much better job than Martin-Green or Wiseman do with their characters. Season Two sounds like an appeasement to the fan base but after Season One, I do not hold much hope. At least we can look forward to Picard.… Expand
  55. Humboldt1337
    Jan 17, 2019
    1
    This show is 100% SJW garbage now. It is like a diversity hire who hates Star Trek made all of the decisions regarding this series. These out of touch Hollywood elite execs know white males are the biggest Star Trek fan base, right?! Apparently not, as they do everything in their power to demean and insult white men throughout the entire show. Just total garbage, I hope this seriesThis show is 100% SJW garbage now. It is like a diversity hire who hates Star Trek made all of the decisions regarding this series. These out of touch Hollywood elite execs know white males are the biggest Star Trek fan base, right?! Apparently not, as they do everything in their power to demean and insult white men throughout the entire show. Just total garbage, I hope this series fails and is forgotten. I will just go watch DS9 re-runs instead.… Expand
  56. EliOli123
    Jan 15, 2019
    0
    Another classic series goes PC. I watch TV to relax and get away from all the crap we have to put up with every day from social justice warriors trying to shove their left wing ideology down our throats. Now we have to put up with these guys using our favorite super heroes, Sitcoms, TV genres etc... to push their PC propaganda. When I'm at home I don't want to be bombarded with all thisAnother classic series goes PC. I watch TV to relax and get away from all the crap we have to put up with every day from social justice warriors trying to shove their left wing ideology down our throats. Now we have to put up with these guys using our favorite super heroes, Sitcoms, TV genres etc... to push their PC propaganda. When I'm at home I don't want to be bombarded with all this crap. I watch TV to be entertained, not indoctrinated. This new Star Trek is more of this same baloney. A big thumbs down from me.… Expand
  57. eastwest312
    Jan 13, 2019
    0
    I saw the trailer to this just now, and was curious to see what happened to Star Trek with this strange clip. Not only did most of the negative comments express my initial thoughts to a 30 second trailer, but i thank you all for sparing me from this televised diarrhea
  58. sgtfalcon
    Jan 12, 2019
    2
    This is not Star Trek. Star Trek is supposed to be an optimistic view of the future. Every character in this show is pretty despicable. The writers don't seem to understand Star Trek at all. This show needs someone to turn it around. Bring back the normal Klingons, develop strong "Horatio Hornblower" type characters. Have the ship "Discovery" explore wonderful new worlds and bring back theThis is not Star Trek. Star Trek is supposed to be an optimistic view of the future. Every character in this show is pretty despicable. The writers don't seem to understand Star Trek at all. This show needs someone to turn it around. Bring back the normal Klingons, develop strong "Horatio Hornblower" type characters. Have the ship "Discovery" explore wonderful new worlds and bring back the morality play that was Star Trek. Occasionally, bring in the Klingons for some battle scenes and make them more like the Soviets as in the original series. This show completely conflicts with the morality plays that were Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise.… Expand
  59. TheTokenSquare
    Jan 7, 2019
    2
    Gene Roddenberry is dead. I'm watching The Orville. I gave STD a 2 for having at least great special effects and production value. Would have given another point or two if the characters were more than one dimentional and the writing was decent. Another point docked for putting the show behind a paywall.
  60. sethman1975
    Jan 5, 2019
    0
    So sad to see what they have with the Star Trek franchise. I have watched them all for decades and loved them all in different ways but Discovery is unlovable. The protagonist has to be the most unlikable character written in recent memory. I'm sure SMG is trying her best but the character in unrelatable and nonredeemable. ST has always been progressive and diverse by default, it haveSo sad to see what they have with the Star Trek franchise. I have watched them all for decades and loved them all in different ways but Discovery is unlovable. The protagonist has to be the most unlikable character written in recent memory. I'm sure SMG is trying her best but the character in unrelatable and nonredeemable. ST has always been progressive and diverse by default, it have never been thrown into the audience's faces and told you must love it. It's dark, depressing, humorless and hopeless. Everything opposite to the previous ST series. If you want a real spiritual successor to Star Trek, watch The Orville.… Expand
  61. Nebulawolf
    Jan 5, 2019
    0
    Totally SJW agenda based propaganda, I have literally watched more interesting paint dry. If you can't be bothered poking your eyes out with a blunt stick, find anything else to put on your television screen, even fish tank graphics would be more satisfying TV.
  62. timpfel
    Jan 5, 2019
    2
    I don't know what this is, but it's not Star Trek.
    I like the uniforms though.
  63. spretasky
    Jan 1, 2019
    2
    I came into this Star Trek not knowing about the drama for it and the hatred. until later when I personally finished watching season 1 and start looking up what people were saying on this "Star Trek" This is not Star Trek . People are telling I should watch Orville vs this. I haven't seen any Orville episodes yet to judge it . This Star Trek was awful. People giving this a 10 are lying toI came into this Star Trek not knowing about the drama for it and the hatred. until later when I personally finished watching season 1 and start looking up what people were saying on this "Star Trek" This is not Star Trek . People are telling I should watch Orville vs this. I haven't seen any Orville episodes yet to judge it . This Star Trek was awful. People giving this a 10 are lying to the fan base. It is a real shame that these people are tribal and robots and can't see how bad this Star Trek is.. Shame!!… Expand
  64. zarasales
    Dec 28, 2018
    1
    A bad parody of Star Trek. The cartoon "special" effects CGI matches the retarded writing & 2D "acting". Pathetic & laughably awful.
  65. Kurok74
    Dec 28, 2018
    0
    I just finished watching season 1 and what an abomination of Gene’s dream. Whoever created this has more knowledge of day time soaps then military comradery or even the upbeat attitudes of Star Trek personnel. I’m sure with long missions it’s something team leaders would be versed in to stave off depression and low crew morale. There are some good things here, notable the beginningI just finished watching season 1 and what an abomination of Gene’s dream. Whoever created this has more knowledge of day time soaps then military comradery or even the upbeat attitudes of Star Trek personnel. I’m sure with long missions it’s something team leaders would be versed in to stave off depression and low crew morale. There are some good things here, notable the beginning sequence is quite cool. The music and effects are pretty good. I he cast seems well built but the story line seems very weak and sjw-ish, at a child’s level. Clear breakdowns in Military / Star Fleet protocols obvious to anyone except the writers who obviously either never watched the show or had any structure in their lives. The story is weak and bears resemblances to a trip down the 2016 election by CNN. Just eye roll after eye roll moment aboard this ship of fools. The show was so terrible they decided to throw out the season cliffhanger bs with the enterprise. I will not watch the next season it was that hard to get through. I literally had to pick up my phone(which is a no no in my house) to distract myself from shutting it off. Every show is allowed bad episodes but some of these were so bad it was painful to watch. This is another show that had some really good things going for it but the writing failed to show up. It had a feeling of sad appeasement and tragic childish attitude.… Expand
  66. RonGianti
    Dec 23, 2018
    0
    There is nothing "Star Trek" about this show. Just a bunch of random "Star Trek" names ("Federation", "Klingon", "phasers") that someone coopted for a bad Sci-Fi show. Take away the names and the plot falls flat and offers nothing. The people are angry and follow no logical protocols. My wife and I, who have been huge fans of everything "Star Trek" since The Next Generation, forced ourThere is nothing "Star Trek" about this show. Just a bunch of random "Star Trek" names ("Federation", "Klingon", "phasers") that someone coopted for a bad Sci-Fi show. Take away the names and the plot falls flat and offers nothing. The people are angry and follow no logical protocols. My wife and I, who have been huge fans of everything "Star Trek" since The Next Generation, forced our way through 3 episodes of this series and quit, never to return. How this got labeled "Star Trek" is beyond me, it is nothing of the sort.… Expand
  67. fevbwfth
    Dec 18, 2018
    1
    Beware, a show named Star Trek actually has female asian Hitler. I cannot believe this.
  68. Beowufknight
    Dec 17, 2018
    0
    SJW crapshow very bad wahmen power film not star trek I mean why do feminists have to ruin freaking everything?
  69. Cosmicdust
    Dec 10, 2018
    0
    This show is laced with political correctness BS from snowflake writers with itchy vaginas. It's absolutely ridiculous at times and totally unrealistic like most of the crap coming out of hollywood. It's a shame really because it could be so much better if it didn't feel the need to ram PC crap down the viewers throats. i can see this being cancelled soon.
  70. mortendynamo
    Dec 1, 2018
    1
    This is an abomination of what Star Trek is. I Have watched all the previous Star Trek series, and have loved them all, but this were just utter garbage.
  71. hewhocaves
    Nov 30, 2018
    0
    Like all the others have said - this show is an awful abomination which seems to go out of its way to trample into the ground everything that Gene Roddenberry held dear. Want to watch good, new episodes of Star Trek these days? Watch The Orville.
  72. pmurie
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    It's full of PC rubbish and Feminist garbage!!! You can tell the lead role is suppose to be a transsexual (looks like a man but is a woman) where the first romance is 2 gay men hence you should keep your kids away from watching this at all costs!
  73. Antares8001
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    It's basically a mediocre sci-fi action thriller that someone slapped a Star Trek sticker on.
    When I heard that this show was gonna take place in the original timeline and not the one of the god awful movie reboots I was excited. But then I started watching it and oh boy...
    Everything that made Star Trek great is missing. The likable characters, the diverse and thought provoking    It's basically a mediocre sci-fi action thriller that someone slapped a Star Trek sticker on.
    When I heard that this show was gonna take place in the original timeline and not the one of the god awful movie reboots I was excited. But then I started watching it and oh boy...
    Everything that made Star Trek great is missing.
    The likable characters, the diverse and thought provoking story-lines, the social criticism, the positive outlook, the focus on diplomacy and exploration has all been traded for terrible dialog, run of the mill sci-fi art style, a CGI action spectacle, second rate story-lines that have been not only been done to death but also seem to belong in an angsty teenage drama show, all topped off by characters that you couldn't pretend to like or relate to with a gun to your head. And let's not say anything about that utterly ridiculous and unnecessary Klingon redesign other than:"What were those P'takhs thinking?".
    Don't get me wrong, the older Star Trek series have more than a few rather campy and outlandish episodes, but as a whole they mostly managed to be thought provoking and created one of the most thought out and coherent Sci-Fi universes populated by believable characters and species.

    If they didn't call it Star Trek I would consider it a kinda ok 6/10 sci-fi show you wouldn't mind watching on a slow evening or as a distraction while doing chores. But as it is simply another laughable and sad entry into the Star Trek canon. If only they had kept it within the movie timeline, at least then it wouldn't have left such a sour mark on Gene Roddenberry's legacy.

    It's a truly weird day when a Seth MacFarlane parody is widely considered to be the true spiritual successor to the likes of TNG, DS9 and Voyager and the actual canonical franchise entry feels like the parody.

    On a semi-relatied side note I find it very odd that quite a few people seem to criticize this "libtard, SJW crap" considering the social criticism and very progressive world view that has always been integral to Star Trek is pretty much non-existent here. Unlike previous entries it never even tries to seriously deal with social issues.    … Expand
  74. Vectis99
    Oct 24, 2018
    3
    A failed attempt to adapt the Star Trek franchise for a modern audience. Pointlessly edgy and crude, Star Trek Discovery tries to squeeze out as much dark shock value as possible accompanied by little else.
  75. Aliadenshe
    Oct 14, 2018
    0
    This is what happens when a bunch of fellas whant to make some money filming stuff but do not have enough imagination and/or intelligence to launch their own project so they jump onto existing one with a ready audience. Storyline is idiotic, characters are shallow, dumb and predictable, Klingons, one of the most handsome race it Star Trek Universe are turned into a laughable orc parody. IThis is what happens when a bunch of fellas whant to make some money filming stuff but do not have enough imagination and/or intelligence to launch their own project so they jump onto existing one with a ready audience. Storyline is idiotic, characters are shallow, dumb and predictable, Klingons, one of the most handsome race it Star Trek Universe are turned into a laughable orc parody. I feel sorry I wasted my time on four episodes of this sickening twaddle.… Expand
  76. IG88
    Oct 3, 2018
    0
    I have watched Next Generation all the way through 3 times. I've seen DS9 through twice, Voyager I'm doing a second time and Enterprise I've seen once. This show, labeled "Star Trek" is not "Star Trek". It's less entertaining than the "Pigs in Space" segments from the Muppet Show and should be called "Angry Unbecoming of an Officer Women in Space". My wife and I, due to our love of allI have watched Next Generation all the way through 3 times. I've seen DS9 through twice, Voyager I'm doing a second time and Enterprise I've seen once. This show, labeled "Star Trek" is not "Star Trek". It's less entertaining than the "Pigs in Space" segments from the Muppet Show and should be called "Angry Unbecoming of an Officer Women in Space". My wife and I, due to our love of all things "Star Trek" pushed our way through the first 3 episodes and then decided to do something more entertaining, like take up knitting or watering the plants (we really should water the plants more...). We will never watch this show again.… Expand
  77. GarethB
    Sep 30, 2018
    2
    Over the top action and CGI do not make good characters and stories, craps all over the real star trek as its another prequel where they have to get everyones nostalgia hyped but fail miserably. Bring back Gene Roddenberry's vision.
  78. tigirius
    Aug 25, 2018
    0
    Where to begin. STD is not a Star Trek show. Imagine Galactica, Lost, or Dark Mirror without any originality, complete with a "hero" that does nothing right but does whatever she wants because "feelings" (aka a Mary Sue), who has no loyalty no logic no boundries but who can do anything and everything without consequence...and you'd have Discovery.

    This show has all of the markings of    Where to begin. STD is not a Star Trek show. Imagine Galactica, Lost, or Dark Mirror without any originality, complete with a "hero" that does nothing right but does whatever she wants because "feelings" (aka a Mary Sue), who has no loyalty no logic no boundries but who can do anything and everything without consequence...and you'd have Discovery.

    This show has all of the markings of what they did to Star Wars the Last Jedi and yes my fellow nerds you should be very very angry!

    The writers must be second rate hacks. The only actual fan of Star Trek left this abomination before it began because he too saw that the monkeys had broken free from their cages and were reeking havoc on the creation. Gene Roddenberry would be rolling in his grave if he saw what they did to his beloved IP. This show will inspire no-one. It will not create any new scientists. It will not create any new military personnel who trained in medicine. It will not create any new engineers because none of the things that made any of the Star Treks great is in this show! None of the science, medicine, engineering, or command structures are in this show because the CBS CEO doesn't understand or care about scifi and how it can change a life. Leslie Moonves made the decision for both the new Star Trek movies and STD to be as far away from the original as they possibly can.

    Prepare yourselves for the abomination that's branching out to Jean-Luc Picard. He is next! When Sir Patrick Stewart said he might not be the man we recognize, that means the creators of his show will also be destroying Gene Roddenberry's genious by taking away everything that made Picard --- Picard! You have been warned!    … Expand
  79. crappo
    Aug 4, 2018
    1
    Worth the reviews this low. It's not a bad sci-fi show on its own. It would have been pretty OK if they had called it "Space Odyssey" or "Dark Horizon Flights" or whatever you wanted ti call it except "Star Trek".

    It's just not a Star Trek and I watched all of them/ The Star Trek lore is totally wrecked. Some ideas can be called "innovative and fresh" but in this case it's a totally    Worth the reviews this low. It's not a bad sci-fi show on its own. It would have been pretty OK if they had called it "Space Odyssey" or "Dark Horizon Flights" or whatever you wanted ti call it except "Star Trek".

    It's just not a Star Trek and I watched all of them/ The Star Trek lore is totally wrecked. Some ideas can be called "innovative and fresh" but in this case it's a totally different/new show.

    As a sci-fi series in general: 7/10
    As a Star Trek: 2/10

    Don't ruin your star trek palate with this. You'll be disappointed. I expect this show to be cancelled at lightspeed. Hopefully the new one with Patrick Stewart won't be such a joke.    … Expand
  80. goggomobile
    Jul 30, 2018
    0
    This is not Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry would be turning in his grave. Utter rubbish! Watch the Orville instead.
  81. NikolayG
    Jul 29, 2018
    0
    The worst version of Star Trek bar none. It pretends it's the first to be diverse yadda yadda, which shows the people involved are clueless about the history of Star Trek. But all you have to do is watch it and witness the endless string of contradictions with Star Trek canon to realize the people involved are ignorant of Trek. The stories make Sharknado look plausible; they are driven byThe worst version of Star Trek bar none. It pretends it's the first to be diverse yadda yadda, which shows the people involved are clueless about the history of Star Trek. But all you have to do is watch it and witness the endless string of contradictions with Star Trek canon to realize the people involved are ignorant of Trek. The stories make Sharknado look plausible; they are driven by the desire to deliver crazy twists, as another person said, that would make M. Night Shyamalan blush. The characters are inconsistent in their behavior and mostly unlikeable. Not only is the show inconsistent with Star Trek; it is at times internally inconsistent with itself. Someone has posted a revealing video of clips from past Star Trek series and Discovery, which show how Discovery violates canon again and again and again. Add to this disrespect for Trek history and unbelievable behavior (by a crew made up of almost entirely unlikeable characters who snipe at each other like junior high schoolers), the visuals, and you have a catastrophe. The visuals and tech look 100 years advanced beyond Voyager. I haven't even mentioned the Klingons yet, who look like giant crustacean globs. The final episode of the season actually started off well, as they'd made some corrections, but the way the war with the Klingons ended was unbelievably stupid and anti-climactic, and then came the introduction of the so-called USS Enterprise that looks all wrong. Ridiculous and Awful. The original NCC-1701 model was simple enough that plenty of details could have been added to it without at all contradicting the original design. But they chose instead to change the color, add disco flair to the nacelle supports, totally change the rear, change the entire profile. The notion that NCC-1701 would look like this between the two Star Trek pilots makes no sense. It is not even close to a transitional look between the first pilot look and the somewhat altered second pilot look. I have canceled CBS All Access.

    The way to save this show is by revealing that it took place in some alternative universe and then for season two somehow shoving the crew (or at least Burnham) into the true original TOS universe with the real TOS look and no holograms or other beyond-Voyager-level jazz. CBS insists people won't watch a new show with the original TOS look. Meanwhile people DO watch TOS and all the fan series with the TOS look and, of course, the USS Callister episode of Black Mirror was so popular the internet almost exploded after it aired. People do still buy into the bright colors, short dresses, hairdos, and strong jawed captains. But CBS was too daft to notice and instead plunged into the incoherent mess that is Discovery, a show that is not about character, not about thoughtful ideas provoked by new and unique discoveries, but instead is all about forced unbelievable twists.    … Expand
  82. charlyw64
    Jul 23, 2018
    0
    What is there to say, Discovery is one of the worst series I had the misfortune to watch (partially, I canceled my Netflix subscription because of that junk within the trial period). Seldom have I seen a less engaging cast act their way through a quagmire of bad writing and bad characterizations. I was rooting every minute I watched for the protagonist to die so that the torment ends...
  83. STDSUCKS
    Jul 14, 2018
    0
    In how many languages can you say the word CRAP !!! It's that bad ... It's the most friggin diseased pos that I have ever seen,,, ever ! . Please do not do SO2 for god sake !!!
    Just let it die !!! Bad mistake . No one will remember it so just go do something else please
  84. EvilCartman
    Jul 14, 2018
    0
    If this was the reason that CBS and Paramount murdered Axanar, then the result is tragic indeed. This is once again an example of a company pandering not to the story, not to the fans, but to some miss guided idea that every show has to represent every facet of every society disproportionately.

    I assume that Paramont think if they put every minority and marginalized demographic in    If this was the reason that CBS and Paramount murdered Axanar, then the result is tragic indeed. This is once again an example of a company pandering not to the story, not to the fans, but to some miss guided idea that every show has to represent every facet of every society disproportionately.

    I assume that Paramont think if they put every minority and marginalized demographic in every show they make, then people forget that it's nothing but old white men on their Board of Directors.

    This isnt true diversity this is just pandering. Not to mention the Star Trek has always been one of most diverse shows ever. I still feel like this is all shoehorned in there, and it didn't need it.

    But in this quest to represent everybody and everything at all times they forgot to represent one thing, smart science fiction and good storytelling. Things that have always been the hallmark of Star Trek at its best. Tho honestly at this point we have way more messages than hits.

    Instead of attacking fanfiction they should hire the guys because most of those low budget productions have a much better story to tell than any of their commercial products of the last 20 years.    … Expand
  85. Honest-Yan
    Jul 10, 2018
    1
    This is the worst Star Trek ever made but it is still watchable if you are a big fan and you have thick skin. There are some references to superior Star Trek and some moments of entertainment to be had. It can be very predictable. There seems to be a preoccupation with 'diversity' to the extent that the only heterosexual White male on the show is the villain. The only White man who is notThis is the worst Star Trek ever made but it is still watchable if you are a big fan and you have thick skin. There are some references to superior Star Trek and some moments of entertainment to be had. It can be very predictable. There seems to be a preoccupation with 'diversity' to the extent that the only heterosexual White male on the show is the villain. The only White man who is not a villain is in a gay relationship with a Black man. There is a gay male alien too. The least competent female character is the White one. There is an Asian man who is too scared and incompetent to act heroically, unfortunately being Asian alone does not earn enough diversity points to warrant having a positive representation in this show. The remaining cast are female. heroic and confident, they are also Black and Asian and share homosexual moments. Maybe the future is non-White and homosexual, and while this show's representation of a future with a rigidly predictable social hierarchy may go down well on many college campuses, there is a flaw in this obsession with 'diversity'. When the Asian man was too scared to help save the ship, I kept feeling that it was more to do with his gender and sexuality than his conveniently scripted PTSD. When the main protagonist singlehandedly beats a superhuman Klingon in hand to hand combat I get the impression that this has less to do with her federation training and more to do with creating a positive representation of her gender race and ambiguous sexuality. It all comes across as inauthentic and overly contrived. To be fair, the original series claimed to be diverse, and maybe it was for its time, but it was mostly about White heterosexual men. Kirk fought Klingons too, but William Shatner looked physically stronger than other cast members on the bridge and clearly had a lot more muscle mass than Sonequa Martin-Green. At least the original show didn't make Uhura or Sulu villains or incompetent. It will take a lot less than 60 years for people to realize that the social politics behind Star Trek Discovery has caused very narrow minded and contrived stories, possibly more contrived than those produced less intentionally during the 60s show. At this rate we will have invented teleporters and warp drives before we can see past our sociopolitical tribalism to the extent that we make a truly inclusive Star Trek. I hope for a positive, inclusive and diverse future for the franchise... and also some better writing.… Expand
  86. shag00
    Jul 8, 2018
    2
    As I see it, Star Trek has always been a sci-fi exploration show, both of the cosmological and human spirit while occasionally addressing some of the edgier issues of American culture.

    What Discovery is, is a show, not much more than a liberal leftist take on homosexuality and doing "good" for various minorities such as dark-skinned people and people with intellectual disabilities set    As I see it, Star Trek has always been a sci-fi exploration show, both of the cosmological and human spirit while occasionally addressing some of the edgier issues of American culture.

    What Discovery is, is a show, not much more than a liberal leftist take on homosexuality and doing "good" for various minorities such as dark-skinned people and people with intellectual disabilities set in a well established commercial franchise. Seemingly gone forever are conundrums, lesser of 2 evils and truth, justice and the American way.

    A number of comments suggest, "it's a good sci-fi show just not a good Star Trek show", well quite frankly that's a crock of **** it's a terrible show, if it wasn't called Star Trek no one would watch it. Mid way during season 1, one of the most unrealistic scenes I have seen lately where one of the ship's crew opens the cage containing a ship-destroying-dinosaur-thing so she can cut it's toe nails.

    I found most of the other negative comments by other posters to be fairly accurate, no wonder the first guy in charge got fired because he obviously knew the show sucked. I feel disappointed also that the majority of so-called professional reviewers are more concerned with being perceived as politically correct than they are with critically appraising a long running, well established series which is both a prequel and a sequel, thereby leaving very little room to change many aspects of the over arching story, within which it fits.    … Expand
  87. jaispeed2015
    Jun 6, 2018
    0
    @FRK
    Enterprise was not a bad show. and This show does not seem that bad either. The only thing bad about Enterprise was the Xenti Arch and that awful series finale
  88. Niftyfifty56
    Jun 3, 2018
    0
    What a let down, leftist rubbish. Not true to the original Star Trek atmosphere. Bad plot lines, bad acting. Should be called something else but Star Trek.
  89. BobbyMcBobface
    May 14, 2018
    0
    Has it come to this? A Star Trek fan for 40 years, who bought every movie and every series on DVD, and then bought them all over again on Blu Rays... and now we have a Star Trek show so ill-conceived, so terrible in concept and execution, that I can't sit through it any more.

    I could spend hours writing about the show. Suffice to say that literally every single creative decision made    Has it come to this? A Star Trek fan for 40 years, who bought every movie and every series on DVD, and then bought them all over again on Blu Rays... and now we have a Star Trek show so ill-conceived, so terrible in concept and execution, that I can't sit through it any more.

    I could spend hours writing about the show. Suffice to say that literally every single creative decision made seems to have been utterly flubbed. I sit watching characters I hate - especially the protagonist - doing things that make no sense in a world that looks nothing like it should.

    I tried, really I did. I tried so hard to like this. But it is impossible. It's just too terrible. I got half way through the first season and gave up. Fortunately I didn't pay CBS one penny for the dreck that they served up, a thought which gives me some comfort.

    Oh well. At least there is The Orville. Is there some way we can cancel Discovery and reveal that The Orville really is a Trek show, tucked away in some hitherto unknown corner of the Federation? Clap your hands, children, clap and make it so.    … Expand
  90. Almostpilot
    Apr 17, 2018
    1
    They managed to ruin the star trek universe. Grotesque what they did with the Klingons, ignoring all previous history of star trek.
  91. bloodline
    Apr 17, 2018
    0
    Having now wasted approximately 10 hours of my life on this show I can confirm that this show is truly abysmal.

    CBS seem to want a serialised show as opposed to an episodic one, but for some reason haven't actually provided a season plot... in place of a season plot we have "war with the Klingons", and a lot (I mean SERIOUSLY A LOT!) of interpersonal drama, but there are only ever 3    Having now wasted approximately 10 hours of my life on this show I can confirm that this show is truly abysmal.

    CBS seem to want a serialised show as opposed to an episodic one, but for some reason haven't actually provided a season plot... in place of a season plot we have "war with the Klingons", and a lot (I mean SERIOUSLY A LOT!) of interpersonal drama, but there are only ever 3 characters with any real dialogue per episode (and one of those characters is always Michael), so we cycle through the same 5 characters having the same arguments over an over again. This is made more tedious as each character's personality and motivations change every episode, I have no idea what a character is going to do or why they are going to do it. I don't like or relate to any of them.

    The dialogue is very stilted, with each character taking it in turns to shout or cry their lines, to the point that each conversation follows the same structure: Conflict, exposition, resolution. At no point advancing the season plot, because there isn't one, there is no challenge or journey... Just a lot of people arguing.

    This is simply a bad show.

    I will not be watching Season 2. Other's on here have said watch Orville instead, I've seen a few episodes of that, and Orville is definitely a better show.    … Expand
  92. marc5477
    Apr 14, 2018
    2
    I am being very generous with the 2 rating. This show is cheap, predictable, illogical, and a total bore. Its a chore to sit and see a bunch of high schoolers in star trek officer uniforms pretend that they are smart and emotionally stable. You might as well call this Star Trek Kids instead of discovery. The only problem is that it might be a bit too dark for kids but then again they getI am being very generous with the 2 rating. This show is cheap, predictable, illogical, and a total bore. Its a chore to sit and see a bunch of high schoolers in star trek officer uniforms pretend that they are smart and emotionally stable. You might as well call this Star Trek Kids instead of discovery. The only problem is that it might be a bit too dark for kids but then again they get worse from watching the news so perhaps not.

    Anyway, as many point out already, Star Trek has taken a very dark yet awkward tone. Awkward because its clearly trying to send a political message. Half of the characters are either minorities or gay. I have had friends from all said groups (I am of a hated minority group myself) but I dont like it when people stick politics in my entertainment and doubly so when the writing and acting is iffy. This is Star Trek, not blacks vs whites. Not gay vs straight. No men vs women. All the major leaders in the show are women. Half of the main characters are black. Half are gay or bi (okay I can sort of buy that one). But the point is, its not realistic and this is supposed to be SCIENCE fiction, not activism fiction. I want to see worlds that I have not dreamed of before, listen to someone talk about zero point mechanics, or subspace communication theory, or math, or science, etc. The only attempt at science in this show seems to be the silly spores which sounds more like a Tolken fantasy. Just add a few elves... wait...

    The show is very poorly written with quasi-teen level dialog and too much interpersonal drama rather than actual "discovery." Also, the characters seem to contradict themselves at every turn. Micheal is hailed as some sort of genius and was raised by logic fanatic Vulcan, yet is in a permanent state of surprise at nearly everything that happens and cant make a good decision if her life depended on it, which it did and she mostly got out of it with silly luck (a la Kirk silliness).

    I think the creators of this show were going to a TOS feel. TOS (the original series) was largely a failure which barely finished 4 seasons and was only replayed due to lack of color TV content at the time. It was clearly given away cheap as it played in the worst time slots on the worst channels back in the day. Why would you want to emulate that? The biggest hit in Star Trek, the one that attracted nerds and geeks is the Next Generation (TNG). Yet, the creators here took a dump on TNG and all that followed, lost their viewership and rolled back Star Trek to its failure days. Great work!    … Expand
  93. SHB
    Apr 14, 2018
    0
    They asked us to give them the benefit of the doubt and let them show how STD matched up with 40+ years of established canon.

    They asked for a season - so I watched the whole season before delivering a final verdict, which was: I hated this show so much I registered on this site to vent my anger. The lead character is an unlikeable mutineer who shows disrespect to all of her peers    They asked us to give them the benefit of the doubt and let them show how STD matched up with 40+ years of established canon.

    They asked for a season - so I watched the whole season before delivering a final verdict, which was: I hated this show so much I registered on this site to vent my anger.

    The lead character is an unlikeable mutineer who shows disrespect to all of her peers and superiors in the 1st half of the season.

    The other characters are peripheral and don't get to do a lot. We still know nothing about the majority of the bridge crew (you know, the highly trained professionals who actually run the ship in EVERY iteration of Star Trek) at the end of the season.

    Praising "diversity" and shouting to the world about having a black female lead isn't enough if the character is not engaging or there are no other characters of note in the show. It just smacks of brow beating the fans to like the show otherwise you are "racist", or "sexist" which I find offensive. In this case the emperor has no clothes, Micahel Burnham just isn't good enough to carry the show on her own in my opinion.

    The Klingon re-design is frankly awful. The terrible new make up doesn't let the characters emote well, the Klingon dialogue likewise, and the Klingon ships look like they belong in a different franchise altogether. The changes made to them are so radical that they look like another species altogether and I have to say I would respect the show runners more if they had created a new race instead of despoiling an existing fan favourite.

    Even JJ Trek had Klingons and ships that were recognisably like the ones we are familiar with.

    The changes to Starfleet are only slightly less jarring. Case in point the Andorians and Tellarites get ugly redesigns - but the Vulcans don't for some reason.

    The writers seem to have focused on shock tactics and plot twists for the sake of them, and as a result the alleged serialised format just falls flat. The end to the season felt rushed and made little sense. In fact much of the show has people doing things that are plain stupid "because plot" and things that are vitally important to the overall story tend to disappear with no real explanation or reason.

    I am glad that I didn't have to pay to watch this show, as it is on NETFLIX in the UK. I won't be bothering with season 2 when it arrives.

    Many of my friends feel the same way.

    My real fear is that this iteration of Star Trek may irreversibly damage one of my favourite fictional settings. I hope this show dies fast before that happens.    … Expand
  94. DarthJack
    Apr 13, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I made it to 13 episodes. I really tried to like it. The problem is that apart from Jason Isaacs performance as the captain, this show really has nothing going for it. It tries to mix a dark and gritty tone with characters that are mostly starry-eyed idealists, and what you end up with is a whole lot of boring with a side of non-sensical writing. *spoilers below*

    As I said, Jason Isaacs character was the lone bright spot for me. It felt fresh to have a daredevil sort of captain who didn't shy away from hard choices, even morally ambigious ones, if thats what it took to win the war against the Klingons. The grittiness and tone of the story matched his character perfectly. He was a warrior captain surrounded by sheep, and it was kind of amazing to see him rally Discovery to several big victories against the Klingon.

    Unfortunately, you only get a couple episodes of this, as the show goes into this ridiculous parallel universe plotline wherein its revealed Isaac's character is the main villain, and then is killed off. This all happens in one episode, Episode 13 to be exact.

    With the sole compelling character in the show killed off, I don't see a reason to keep watching. The story is ridiculous, the remaining characters are either boring or spend most of their time barreling from one emotional breakdown to another. Doug Jones is decent as Saru, but he can't carry the show alone.

    This show fails as Star Trek, but perhaps worse, it fails as good sci-fi.    … Expand
  95. Unclepitty
    Apr 11, 2018
    0
    Terrible show. The writing is atrocious. It is Star Trek by name only. Get someone that knows what they are doing on that show and get rid of Kurtzman. That guy destroys everything he touches.
  96. Jackhelix
    Apr 9, 2018
    0
    Amazing graphics, the story is awful and the show has no charisma. Klingons make no sense and the real timeline is gone. Overall a good scifi but not star trek in any way, i can watch any star trek series all day every day and i do every day and night, but this series is not and never will be one of them, i wanted to like it but i simply can't.
  97. Zygzagoon
    Apr 6, 2018
    3
    I finished watching S01 a week ago with Dad. I have always wanted to watch a StarTrek show with him because he loves them. Finally! And ... huh, not what I expected. I mean, I wanted new flashy CGI. I wanted space battles like Deep Space Nine (which were awesome). But what I really wanted was some lovable characters, especially comedy characters who don't understand the way humanI finished watching S01 a week ago with Dad. I have always wanted to watch a StarTrek show with him because he loves them. Finally! And ... huh, not what I expected. I mean, I wanted new flashy CGI. I wanted space battles like Deep Space Nine (which were awesome). But what I really wanted was some lovable characters, especially comedy characters who don't understand the way human interaction work like Data, the Doctor or Seven of Nine. Tilly is the closest to a lovable, positive Star Trek character and she disappeared into the background very quickly. At the end of the series, Dad and I turned to each other and asked the same question: Why do they keep giving Burnham monologues? She is SO boring. SO boring! And, dare I say it, I miss the space jargon! It made the show sound smart and I felt privileged for watching it! I learned the word "isotope" listening to them talk. All I learned from this one is "boohoo, our relationship is failing". Its sci-fi, not drama! Ugh! I MIGHT watch the second season.… Expand
  98. Vespin_Feebler
    Mar 23, 2018
    0
    This is not Star Trek. This is a cold, dark, angst-ridden, unfriendly, morally gray, M-rated drama with enough in-fighting between the characters to make Gene Roddenberry roll in his grave. I call it "Dark Trek". It's an abomination. I gave it ten episodes because it's (supposedly) Star Trek, but couldn't stand to watch any farther.
  99. Artimecion
    Mar 15, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (some spoilers if you haven't seen the first season.)

    Firstly, I should probably point out that I've seen all of the other Trek series and must admit that I'm not an Enterprise Fan, nor am I fan of the newer reboot films. This may help to explain some of my views with Discovery.

    Discovery is a tedious mess of a show that just doesn't feel like Star Trek. Unlikable, dumb characters and unnecessary changes to established design (Especially the Klingons) really stand out in the absence of an engaging story. The characters are emotionally very one-dimensional and make absolutely baffling, and often unrelateable, choices. I often found myself thinking "in what possible scenario was this choice a good idea?'. Compounding the issues with the story and characters is that there are very few consequences to actions. Major plot elements happen with no feeling of gravity (except perhaps the start of the klingon-federation war that the series mostly focuses on) and people get injured or 'die' with relatively little impact.

    The characters are a particular annoyance. The formula is usually a) the character 'dies' only to reappear later or b) the character is actually not who they claim to be. This is fine when these thing happens once, but it becomes groan worthy when yet another character is masquerading as something else. This is to the point that, by the end, most of the remaining cast are either not what they appeared to be in the opening episode and only one of the 'deaths' appear to be permanent. The cast is also pretty unmemorable to the point that I can only really remember the names of Burnham and Lorca - the others just become 'the klingon lady' 'the annoying scientist' or 'the awkward ginger one'. Compare this to Deep Space Nine, for example, where the characters are relatively complex and memorable from the get-go.

    The show also suffers heavily from being a prequel. Technology exists where it shouldn't in the Trek timeline, but this sits alongside an awkward attempt at continuity (backwards and forwards in time). These issues really impact on this being an engaging star trek show when you're constantly trying to figure out where things fit because it is a prequel. Then there are weird anachronisms, such as the 'disco' sweatshirts and the nightclub on board the ship which feel out of place and pop-culturey. I'm really hoping the series gets better, but the cast needs a complete overhaul and they really need script writers than can write an engaging sci-fi story that fits the star trek universe.

    To give some credit, it does look pretty and the story picks up briefly about 3/4 of the way through with an unexpected jump the alternative universe. However, this is short lived and the last few episodes become a tired return to 'oh look, another character isn't who they say they are' and 'oh... that character is back...'.

    The writing is very poor and is probably the element I take the most issue with. Dialogue is generally awkward and people don't really speak 'naturally'. Plot points are introduced for temporary convenience and forgotten in a drive to move the story along. Albeit minor, one problem that highlights this (and irrationally infuriates me) is how they deal with the difference between Terrans from the alternative universe and Humans in the federation-verse and the framing of this. They mention that there is a difference in people's vision, with Terrans being more sensitive to light, therefore explaining Lorca's optical affliction. However, nobody else seems to demonstrate this (particularly the empress when she is bought back to the federation-verse). In addition, this fact is dealt with in the alternative dimension, not within the federation-verse. Therefore, surely it should have been explained that the Federation Humans are less sensitive to light, with the Terran sensitivity being normal in their universe? It's probably ridiculous, but it does bug me that a Terran described themselves as having an 'affliction' that would have been entirely normal to them in their universe. Maybe i'm nitpicking, but the culmination of poor story and character elements mean that Discovery is a miss for me.

    I'll gladly watch season two, but if the characterisation and story remains dull, I do not see myself going out the way to watch any future seasons.    … Expand
  100. fotograf
    Mar 8, 2018
    1
    what the??? What happened to the Star Trek universe? What happened to Klingon Warriors? Where is the honor in this psycho babble nonsense that they came up with? Spores? Seriously? Whats with Lorca? Who is this man? Terrible acting. He should have been a woman to fit the rest of the narrative. Just terrible! Another dead franchise! Shatner must be so pleased he has nothing to do with itwhat the??? What happened to the Star Trek universe? What happened to Klingon Warriors? Where is the honor in this psycho babble nonsense that they came up with? Spores? Seriously? Whats with Lorca? Who is this man? Terrible acting. He should have been a woman to fit the rest of the narrative. Just terrible! Another dead franchise! Shatner must be so pleased he has nothing to do with it and Leonard, DeForrest and James must be rolling in their graves. And as for the critics? Are they paid these days by the studios? How on earth can you praise this nonsense.

    I am a real fan of many years having watched every episode (even enterprise) many times over but
    this is not Star Trek. Its something... dunno what... but Star Trek it aint.

    Orville is closer! How sad!    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Oct 19, 2017
    50
    Discovery feels like it’s adrift between the adventure-of-the-week format of its network-TV predecessors and the kind of complex serial favored by cable and streaming.
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  2. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Sep 26, 2017
    60
    Star Trek: Discovery feels like it's just finding its footing. On the promising side, Doug Jones is already a standout as Science Officer Lt. Saru, who's from an alien race called Kelpiens. And James Frain is perfectly cast as Sarek, the Vulcan who veteran "Trek" fans know as the father of Spock. The relationship between Burnham and Sarek is one of the more intriguing aspects of Star Trek: Discovery.
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  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Sep 26, 2017
    80
    Happily Star Trek: Discovery strikes a balance between what diehard Trekkies love about Roddenberry’s universe and what J.J. Abrams injected into its theatrical resurrection. Ethical dilemmas and a clash between cultures and traditions comprise the fore of the narrative, but the hours don’t skimp on phaser blasts and broadcast-appropriate carnage.
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