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- CBS
- Sep 24, 2017
- CBS
- Sep 24, 2017
Summary Before the Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery set out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. The first episode will air on CBS, subsequent episodes will air only on CBS All Access.
Created By: Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman
- CBS
- Sep 24, 2017
- CBS
- Sep 24, 2017
Summary Before the Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery set out to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. The first episode will air on CBS, subsequent episodes will air only on CBS All Access.
Created By: Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
25% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s even more beautiful watching two women of color, black and Asian, navigate a realm that traditionally hasn’t included them. It honors sci-fi’s history while giving it a bold new future to stake claim in, making Star Trek essential television for the first time in decades.
Listen up, Star Trek fans: sign up for your CBS All Access account now, because the most exciting and daring take on the franchise is happening there, and even if you don’t love it right out of the gate, it’s going to create conversations you won’t want to miss.
User Score
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Based on 1,331 User Ratings
4.5
40% Positive
530 Ratings
530 Ratings
12% Mixed
161 Ratings
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48% Negative
640 Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 1,331 User Ratings
4.5
40% Positive
530 Ratings
530 Ratings
12% Mixed
161 Ratings
161 Ratings
48% Negative
640 Ratings
640 Ratings
Another great show being review-bombed. Many of the 0 reviews I have read obviously aren't even watching. They did so much to bring season 2 back in line with cannon and explain how everything recovered from the events that took place on Discovery.
On top of that, the budget has been increased to create 3 Star Trek shows. Something tells me that Discovery is a big success. Producers are just throwing money at them.
Picard Series
Pike Series
Discovery Series.
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SEASON 1
I'm half way through the second season and I love this show. It has amazing twists and turns and keeps you guessing. Science Fiction at it's best. Great CGI, great stories and deep complicated characters.
Is there a problem? Only if you are a gate-keeping die hard ST fan because the look and feel of the series strays from Roddenberry's creation. That said there are enough intertwining story arcs from the original series (Captain Pike, Talos 4) to keep ST connoisseurs entertained.
I am a big ST fan - love the original ST, loved TNG - so-so on DS9 - loved Voyager and Enterprise. Although not 100% Star Trek it is a great Sci-fi series. Well done!
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SEASON 1
Discovery is action-packed, has its main narrative set around a Federation-Klingon war, and heavily borrows from the visual style of J.J. Abrams’s rebooted Trek films, replete with lens flares and metallic set dressings, far from the day-glo delights of the original show.
It’s the moral murk that Burnham must wade through that gives Discovery its tantalizing possibilities.
One of the things that makes Star Trek so good is that it really believes in peace and inclusion and all that good stuff. It really wants to create a world where these ideals have become the guiding principles of humanity and its many interplanetary allies. Star Trek is best when it’s hopeful, but hope shines brightest amid horror. On some level, Discovery knows both of those things, and that’s why it’s a show I’m eager to keep watching.
Star Trek Discovery is perhaps a little too dull and a little too indistinguished to really make that impact. The performances are all routinely good, and there’s nothing about its production values that’s easy to fault, but it’s also hard to find a lot to celebrate in full. That said, the leads definitely have fine chemistry together, particularly Martin-Green and Yeoh.
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.
If you are a gate-keeping Star Trek fan, there's no doubt you'll hate this show because it's not the same exact show that you grew up with.
That said, that's what makes this show so brilliant. Too many Star Trek reboots have tried to play on ToS or TNG success and created cookie-cutter series with almost identical plot lines and characters. Thank GOD Discovery changed the way it did.
While some of the pseudo-science sounds hokey, in the larger Star Trek canon, it's really not that bad.
The characters are deep, flawed, vulnerable, well-developed, and evolve throughout the series. The writing is incredible, and every time you think you've got one up on the writers and that they might be going in a predictable route, they turn the entire thing on its head and disrupt your expectations entirely!
The show doesn't shy away from its dark plots, but it also doesn't paint a dreary depressing galaxy like many of the semi-recent sci-fi successes (i.e. Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis). Hope and adventure are always right around the corner and every episode you're left at the edge of your seat eagerly waiting to find out what happens next.
Again, if what you like is the shallow, feel-good, low energy writing of past Star Trek series, you're going to hate this. If you hate the fact that the only straight white male character on this show is essentially a side character even though he's the captain because you HATE representation and diversity, you will hate this show (and you're a piece of crap human being). If you feel like no one has any right to EVER change or update any media from your childhood memories (OMG MAH KLINGONS!) you'll hate this show. But if you're actually open to what is a BRILLIANTLY written show with amazing characters, writing, and acting, you will NOT be disappointed. This is one of the best sci-fi shows out there right now, right along with The Expanse.
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SEASON 1
Season 1 part 2: While the second part of season one started out pretty strong with a fun premise and probably the most enjoyable episode of the whole show (episode 10), it quickly went downhill. The showrunners pretty much wasted the concept's potential and made it into a schlocky space war, yet again, not really keeping with the spirit of Star Trek. As a whole Discovery is a decent show with fantastic high quality production and some fun characters, but unfortunately it's second half was just as underwhelming as the first, without any kind of improvement really.
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SEASON 1
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 correct **** love the show and the new twists and turns but will have to stop watching and subscribing if this issue is not corrected.
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SEASON 1
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.
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