Star Trek: Discovery

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  1. 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!
  2. Goreminister
    Oct 2, 2017
    0
    SJW Hollywood claimed the next classic franchise and turned it into disgusting propaganda. I´m sad to see that one of my beloved TV Series lost everything of the original message. On top the 90s called: They want their SFX back. Terribly executed! :(
  3. JoeSaid
    Oct 4, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. For a long time I thought that nothing could be more of a train-wreck than Star Trek Enterprise..until I watched Discovery. To say it simply this show is not Star Trek. It may be called Star Trek and it may use names like Klingons but it is not Star Trek. First let me address the Klingons. They aren't Klingons, they're Orcs that were dressed by Lady Gaga. This brings me to the uniforms that don't look anything like TOS uniforms and are nonsensical since all of them appear to be blue. The acting is horrible, and the lines are horrible so there is no saving the dialog. The plot is nonsensical as well "Space fungal spores"...what is that? The idea seems so stupid that I must have misunderstood the concept. Why don't we hear of anything...ANYTHING like these "spores" ever again in any other series? NONE of the characters are interesting. I watched 3 episodes and I couldn't say "I like this character or that character". All of the characters were flat and 2 dimensional with very little interesting backstory. I remember watching TNG for the first time and thinking "Cool there's a Klingon and an Android and a telepath, and the Captain is cool...." no....what you get in Star Trek Discovery is Sasha from Walking Dead reading her lines like shes bored...Also why is her name Michael? I mean I know this is the future where there are "no male or female names" but this is hitting me about as well as the men's skirt unifrorms on season 1 of TNG. There is the.effeminate Sheldon alien that apparently CBS thought would be a good fit for the show....everyone likes Sheldon...slap some make-up on this thin guy and make him act like Sheldon that will help carry the show.....CBS...it doesn't carry the show. Whiney Engineer that felt like that annoying co-worker everyone has that you hate being in a conversation with...I don't remember his name but with this show lets call HIM Alice or Susane...I can't think of a single crew member that I like. Oh yea and "Michael"'s roommate the girl that seems like she should be in the movie Mean Girls not a Star Trek show. I waited 10+ years for a new Star Trek show and this is what I get for my wait......I hate this show.… Expand
  4. KingDonald
    Oct 9, 2017
    0
    SJW RUBBISH. They just killed a franchise for no reason. The continuity of the show has been ignored with the appearance of the klingons. You would be better off watching Star Trek Continues on YouTube, that show is faithful to the Star Trek ethos. Star Trek Discovery is rubbish.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. Cloudstone10
    Mar 18, 2019
    0
    Don't you think I am able to read and write?
    Without Tilly it is just a ****
  8. marzDK
    Jan 13, 2018
    0
    I really looked forward to this show. I have been an Star Trek fan since childhood. I love the show for, the exploration of the unknown, The Science facts and theories, and a future free of Donald Trumps, greed and money.
    The sole purpose of understanding the unknown, instead of bombing everyone that doesn't agree or look like us. The focus on exploration and the curiosity instead of    I really looked forward to this show. I have been an Star Trek fan since childhood. I love the show for, the exploration of the unknown, The Science facts and theories, and a future free of Donald Trumps, greed and money.
    The sole purpose of understanding the unknown, instead of bombing everyone that doesn't agree or look like us. The focus on exploration and the curiosity instead of 'oldtime' (ourtime) human pettiness. The show used to give me hope and positivity, a one of a kind show, now it's just looks and feels like every other american show.
    If I want the feeling of yesterdays Star Trek today, I'll watch The Orville instead.    … Expand
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. farmerfan
    Dec 28, 2017
    0
    This abomination is so disgusting it's hard to believe. It's basically an attempt to make a sci fi show that is PC, SJW etc for radical feminists and LGBT community. So if CBS wants to appease these minority groups and make a sci fi show for them, all well and good, but why destroy the beloved Star Trek franchise to do it?? I'm sure that I speak for the vast majority of sci fi fans outThis abomination is so disgusting it's hard to believe. It's basically an attempt to make a sci fi show that is PC, SJW etc for radical feminists and LGBT community. So if CBS wants to appease these minority groups and make a sci fi show for them, all well and good, but why destroy the beloved Star Trek franchise to do it?? I'm sure that I speak for the vast majority of sci fi fans out there when I say that a badly acted, laughably plotted Star Trek wannabe show for LGBT and radical feminists is NOT going to appeal to the majority of viewers. Using the Star Trek canon to push this PC message down our throats is just so wrong, on so many levels.
    And in any case, the plot, acting, script and behaviour of every actor is just abysmal, no one could possibly be interested in the actual storyline, surely?
    This should have been kept off the TV and shown in a tent at the Mardi Gras maybe, but please spare the rest of humanity from more of this garbage.    … Expand
  12. rjc241
    Jan 30, 2018
    0
    I find it hard to believe this star trek takes place before Kirk and Spock its too advanced it got off to a somewhat slow start but now having watched all ten episodes i believe it deserves to be up there with the best all true Si Fi fan will love it is mind boggling and takes place in the multiverse what more can one ask keep up the good work writer and if you get half as good has theI find it hard to believe this star trek takes place before Kirk and Spock its too advanced it got off to a somewhat slow start but now having watched all ten episodes i believe it deserves to be up there with the best all true Si Fi fan will love it is mind boggling and takes place in the multiverse what more can one ask keep up the good work writer and if you get half as good has the writer's of start trek voguer you should be proud of yourselves i am 68 and have been a Si Fi fan most of my life. many thanks… Expand
  13. Ysegrim
    Nov 13, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (Sorry for my English)
    The first and second episode were really not bad and the actors does their jobs, but then it becomes a joke. The plot is just meaningless and absurd.

    SPOILER!
    The 4. Episode you have to see! It kills the serie but you can laugh, when you ask yourself the following questions:
    1. Why is there only a shield and not a single ship for defending a such strategically important colony? They makes 40% of the fuel of the federation and there is not one single ship?
    2. How dumb is the security officer who open a cage of an animal who has killed easily 6 Klingons, after she waits about 2 seconds until the narcotic work? i mean she has already seen that her gun will not work, but thinks she can cut it with a knife?
    3. WTF thought the writers when they came up with this pseudoscientific galactic mushroom **** with a super computer bear?
    And last but not least: Do they hang the clamps on the nipples of the bear???    … Expand
  14. BillyBWilliams
    Dec 10, 2017
    0
    God awful and family hating agenda. The woman/man relationships are vicious, no heterosexual love if family, it's all homosexual devotion and we hate it. This is a homosexual show, NOT star trek, Gene must be flipping over in his grave.

    Homosexual and family hating agenda.. SJW trash. Its gross and disturbing to watch a show filled with the homosexual propaganda. I refuse to watch    God awful and family hating agenda. The woman/man relationships are vicious, no heterosexual love if family, it's all homosexual devotion and we hate it. This is a homosexual show, NOT star trek, Gene must be flipping over in his grave.

    Homosexual and family hating agenda.. SJW trash. Its gross and disturbing to watch a show filled with the homosexual propaganda. I refuse to watch it in my home and my children will not be watching it as well.. Gene Roddenberry would be flipping in his grave to see that Star Trek has turned into a family-hating homosexual/LGBT interest with men kissing men on TV.. Do these idiots really think we want to watch men kissing men? Is this Star Trek or gay-man porn?

    There are 2 types of people who will like this show, the SJW's and homosexuals, everyone else will hate it. The ratings are dropping into a trashcan, it wont last to season 3. BTW, The Orville is much more like Gene's vision, Star Trek Discovery has missed the mark and an embarrassment to humanity because all the actors and actresses are awful and act like spoiled little brats. It's really sick because the target audience is about 10-15yo...

    I feel like this show needs a zap back to 1960s and a HIV vaccine.    … Expand
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. addict-insane
    Mar 9, 2019
    1
    There are so many good writers in this world. Is Hollywood allergic to them?
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. AdamKingry
    Jan 11, 2018
    3
    I feel terrible for giving the show a bad review because I really like some of the characters. Rainne Wison was funny and interesting in his role - perfect casting. Also perfect casting is Jason Isaacs as Lorca - completely believable as an experienced, embattled maverick with exceptional leadership skills, dispassionate resolve and cunning, and a moral compass that is a little in the greyI feel terrible for giving the show a bad review because I really like some of the characters. Rainne Wison was funny and interesting in his role - perfect casting. Also perfect casting is Jason Isaacs as Lorca - completely believable as an experienced, embattled maverick with exceptional leadership skills, dispassionate resolve and cunning, and a moral compass that is a little in the grey area.

    The Ash Tyler character is well-acted and well written, but for some reason I'm not buying the chemistry between Ash and Michael yet.

    Sonequa Martin Green does an excellent job as Michael, oscillating between heartfelt emotions and Vulcan reserve. Remember that she hasn't rejected her humanity, and isn't half Vulcan like Spock. She's fully human with all that entails, but can be remarkably focused and calm in a crisis. She has a snappy mathematics ability and has above average combat prowess - evidenced by the fact that she can take down a Klingon who is twice her weight. But she's not a Vulcan and doesn't need to eschew emotion.

    I actually really love her character. She seems like a genuine person and her emotions feel very real to me. Excellent acting. Ash just isn't swashbuckling enough, or stable enough, for me to believe she'd take an interest in him. And I think it's unlikely she'd kiss him with that greasy, scraggly beard.

    Tilly's character is okay. She's quirky and irritatingly upbeat, but she is growing on me. I think her character has potential. She's sort of a Neelix-like character - upbeat, optimistic, overly talkative, and more savvy than she appears.

    I don't like Lt. Saru partially because he's sniveling and irritating, but mostly due to the fact that he's hard to look at. Those tendrals on the back of his skull that pop up and writhe  like little worms when he senses danger actually make me cringe with revulsion.

    I don't like the homosexual couple at all. One is a mean albino and the other is a flat-acting Prince clone with a distracting overbite; but that isn't why I don't like them. I don't like them because their relationship is a propaganda move that was presented to and approved by GLAAD ("a media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people") .

    There has been a systematic and aggressive campaign to pressure production companies to represent the tiny contemporary subculture in numerous, positive, substantive, prolonged, central roles in the media - particularly aimed at markets for families and children, with the central aim of mainstream normalization. I'm not a supporter of propaganda in any form, but I really don't like the idea of special interest groups pressuring production companies, especially when massive overrepresentation is taking place already.

    The matching red pajamas, brushing teeth scene caused me to stop watching for weeks. When I gave the show another shot due to the memorable acting of Sonequa Martin Green, I stopped watching entirely​ at the homosexual kissing scene. I found it to be contrived to the degree that I utterly lost my suspension of disbelief. All I saw was aggressive special interest activism intruding upon a beloved television franchise.

    In typical militant fashion, Wilson Cruz, the overbite doctor, said "We aren't here for [the fan's and viewer's] comfort" and essentially said, if you don't like it, don't watch the show. That's not very business-like, but it may prove to be prophetic if the 200 Metacritic negative  user reviews to 100 positive reviews is any indication of the show's longevity - or the nation's polarization over the issue.

    My suspicion is that the primary fan base just wants to watch the show with their family without any f-bombs or ham-fisted propaganda. I suppose they may need to decide if they want to make a show fans enjoy (and buy) or bow subserviently to the watchful diligence of the GLAAD Gestapo.

    I probably won't watch Season 2 despite the many great performances, interesting storylines and good special effects. Great disappointment from an avid Star Trek fan who has seen every movie and every episode in each incarnation of the franchise.    … Expand
  31. 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
  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. tremault
    Jan 20, 2019
    0
    There's a lot of issues with discovery but this was at least watchable and quite enjoyable at times.
  34. triadne
    Mar 15, 2023
    1
    There's a lot of issues with discovery but this was at least watchable and quite enjoyable at times.
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#80 Best TV Season of 2017
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#1 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017
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#9 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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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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