Star Trek: Discovery

[gothwalk]

So, what do you think of Star Trek: Discovery?

Comments may contain spoilers. Since it's available worldwide at a time of your choosing, and if you can see any of it, you can see all of it, I have less than the usual level of sympathy for spoiler complaints.

Comments

[malinaldarose]

I am enjoying it. I haven't seen this week's episode, yet. I had thought to watch it tonight, but that didn't work out. Tomorrow, maybe. I am hoping that when they finally do have Michael run into her foster brother (in the second or third season), they do not waste the opportunity to use Zachary Quinto.

[bastun]

My first ever Dreamwidth comment!

I'm enjoying it - a lot.

Sure, it's not perfect. It's not like old Trek - and it shouldn't be. Television as a medium has moved on, even from when ST:Enterprise was live.

Some things are jarring - the new, new Klingons, for example. As I remarked to Anna in the pub, their spaceships look like Icecrown Citadel turned on its side, yet they're supposed to be (I think) the same prime-universe Klingons we know and love, and one of their ships was identified as a D7 Battlecruiser... but no explanation forthcoming as yet, anyway, as to why they all look different.

But Enterprise changed things too, and I hated it for doing that. No, Qo'nos *isn't* a day or so away from Earth, even if your ship is powered by narrativium. Some of the changes Discovery has introduced are, as I say, jarring, but I'm willing to stick with it to see if there's an explanation, and, more importantly, to find out what happens next. Whereas with Enterprise, I gave up about 6 episodes in.

I'm enjoying it, mostly, because they're telling a good story, with good, flawed characters.