Star Trek: Discovery

Go fornicate yourself with a metal stick, Kurtzman.

I hated everything about this and seeing all the high scores for this Game of Thronesy Shit In Space Which Never Feels Star Trekky just makes me feel old and depressed. A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Really did try to give this a fair shake, but it felt like getting repeatedly spit in the face. Has that faux-woke air of trying to finding fault in its own history to be "modern" so it demeans or retcons everything that made *what it is based on* worthy of renown and appraisal, and does so lazily, which is a different level of hurt. A whole show focusing on the negative instead of the positive, which is as anti-Trek a mood as possible.

[Based on 11 episodes] As a life long fan, this is so terrible that I'm personality insulted. It's like a TV version of ID4 resurgence with TNG sound effects and more clichés than you can imagine possible in 46 minutes. Terrible performances. Boring unlikable Mary Sue that never loses lavished with praise. watch The Orville instead. Update for S2: it's even WORSE. lt. mary sue saved the day 4 times in 45 minutes, continuity errors and basic logic problems throughout. i'm gonna start drinking.

Please note that this is only based on the first season and I will not watch any more. Everything about this is wrong. The fact that it bears the title Star Trek is theft at best and slander at worst. This is a dark nightmare land where bad writing is the norm and there are no moral debates to be had because everything is constantly blowing up and everyone is screaming at each other. Gene Roddenberry is spinning so fast in his grave that his corpse might form the first warp engine.

So many cliches and tropes. The technology is supposed to be ten years before Kirk era but is light years ahead of TNG. Watch The Orville instead.

I don't mind that Discovery tries to do its own thing. I do mind that it feels unfaithful to the predecessor works- which, on a continuity line, will happen in the future unless we're talking an alternate reality. Why the wrinkled grape Klingons? That said, it's got wonderful graphics. It tries too hard to address the lack of action in other shows and so it hurts the philosophical pensiveness for which Trek is known. Worst of all, most characters in here are just unlikable.

I unashamedly love this version of Star Trek. 2 seasons in, it's bridging the gap between the old & the new. The pace is faster; the characters more intentionally flawed; the Klingons... different. The designs, effects & action are all noticeably higher budget which works. Old Trek may have been more cerebral, but it often came across as grandstanding. While Disco hasn't yet encountered that problem, it has delivered fun characters, compelling drama and good sci-fi. The writing in S04 nosedives.

Isn't Starfleet a military-type thing? Why is it populated entirely by high school drama club prima donnas and cowboys? Fortunately, I like Trek just enough to give this the benefit of the doubt, but not so much to be much bothered by the multitude of minor heresies here. I'll probably pass on season 2.

The problem with this one is that it is not Star Trek at all. Star Trek is supposed to be light-hearted and optimistic about the future of mankind. This show is dark and not just in mood. The lead characters' morality is questionable at best. So far every captain we've seen were role models for leaders. The characters here are flawed. Very flawed. In the end they tried to give us something so new that they forgot that they need to be Star Trek as well.

This is so painful to watch. Feelings, feelings everywhere. Even the computer develops feelings. It's a goddamn soap opera. Who ever wrote this crap should be dumped in a big black hole. What a waste.

All in all, after more than 10 years of waiting for a new Trek TV show we can be happy. Instead of nitpicking and finding mistakes all the time lets appreciate the fact that they started this new Trek show with great style. Visuals are awesome, story pacing is great and season as whole is well rounded. Characters are well developed and have good story arcs and ending is a great tease for all who love Star Trek. I wouldnt be far from truth If I sad this is the best first season of a Trek show.

This isn't Star Trek, it's badly written melodrama.

As a huge Trekkie the continuity issues make my fingers itch, I could complain about it all day. It's also so inconsistent in every respect. Some of the cast are great, some of the themes are great, some of the episodes are great, but on the flip side some of all of the previous are frustratingly poor. Early seasons are easier to get on with, but as it has gone on the saccharine emotion, lack of character development and inconsistencies have become frustrating. S1:70, S2:71, S3:59, S4:50, S5:64.

Probably the best first season of any Trek series?

I appreciate the feature film quality production values, but this Trek is a bit dark for me. I miss the TNG humour. Enjoyed the twist, but...well...it's okay. Found myself surfing the Internet and "half-watching" about half-way through season 2. Not a good sign. It's like a movie that will never end. Honestly I barely know anything that's happening or what anyone is talking about anymore. A couple of episodes to go but 2 seasons and done for me.

They never just have an encounter and approach it with intellect. They're always saving the entire universe on a passionate whim. With thick makeup on. And every episode begins and ends with tender snuggles and whispered sentimentality.

The first couple of seasons show us some pretty great space fantasy action. Drop the canon though, this is Star Trek only by name for the most part. Later seasons are an abomination though. Not sure why Michael whispers that much, probably lost her voice from constant crying. Anyway, first two seasons can be wathced as a whole and my rating is for those. Ignore the later seasons, really no need to watch that and ruin a good show for yourself.

[through season 5]

A very messy show, season one sucks, but then it develops into something still messy that I kind of love. Seeing Michael Burnham transform from gloomy and grimdark to someone whose smile lights up her face is beautiful (the tone of the show changes in a similar way). And all the 'this team is a family' thing lands really well and gets emotional and earnest and quite fun. Season 3 finale is kinda Space Die Hard (complete with Michael shoeless and bleeding).

Enjoying the story, nice series!

Season 1 is a bit of a rough start, S3-4 have been a lot more what I enjoy about Star Trek!

Not my Star Trek, man, just not it. Burnham is such an uninteresting nothing of a character - with the same applying to all the cast except Saru. Season 4 shows me a glimmer of hope, but it’s not worth getting there. And Picard is even worse......

Starfleet: The best of the best of humanity ST Discovery: Desecrate another people's holy site and commit mutiny in less than an episode.

Actually a good series all in all. Very progressive and thus close to what Star Trek has always been about. I personally don't care that much about continuity. What I do care about is a good plot though. And I feel like the first season was ruined by having every episode end in a major shocking and "surprising" twist. I believe what makes game of thrones a great show was tried here as well. And it failed. I hope they learned from that in season 2

Great, action packed S1/S2 with interesting trope. Barely OK S3. Unwatchable S4 because it's packed with melodrama. Rating for S1/S2 only.

I really tried to like this. But the longer it goes on, the more it feels like the producers just try to shove us their moral lessons down the throat so far they pop out the other end, and that at least 5 times per episode. This has nothing to do with Star Trek, this is a CDO self pleasure fest. Better watch "Strange new worlds" or Orville instead.

Not as good as it probably should be considering the production quality that goes into it, but it's still interesting enough to keep me watching. I did like the inclusion of Pike and Spock in Season 2.

Entertainment: 4/4. Spirituality: 2/3. Sustainability: 1.5/3. Family: 0/1.

The best Star Trek since Next Generation.

Più che una serie canonica di Star Trek sembra una generica serie fantascientifica, con dei riferimenti qua e là per far felici i fan. Col passare delle stagioni si è incartata su se stessa volendo sempre eccedere ed ha perso credibilità e verosimiglianza, ma resta un prodotto avvincente che non ha mai cali di ritmo.

Varies greatly from episode to episode. Overall decent. Season 1 - 55

Season 1

First Star Trek series I've actually sat down and watched. It has the seemingly requisite mix of cheesiness and seriousness that I expected, and some interesting episodes, but I slowly lost interest as the season progressed, especially once the Mirror Universe came into play. The writing and character interactions can be quite painful at times, as well.

Good so far.

Terrible. This show is the perfect example of the transition from the high-minded, cerebral progressivism of the Rick Berman-era Star Trek to the absurd, soapy straw man progressivism of today. The touchy-feely crap makes me want to puke like little else.

Michael is a great lead and the show is very ambitious and somewhat successful. Season 2 is the better season with Anson Mount being my new man crush. (2 seasons)

The pilot goes heavy on the symbolism and is full of analogues and mirror images, with a strong theme of duality (though setting the action in a binary star system is perhaps a little heavy handed). This kind of thing has become a little unfashionable in modern TV, but it's typical for Star Trek - and for Bryan Fuller shows. The rest of the season will show whether the Fuller-less creative team are capable of building on this foundation.