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Star Trek: Discovery Season Premiere Review

Well by now it's on its sixth or seventh episode, but when Star Trek: Discovery's premiere came out I did review it like I did with The Orville because hey, I'm a huge Star Trek fan and I had to at least give it a shot despite my poor first impressions from trailers and such.

Like with The Orville, I did my level best to give it a chance to prove me wrong.  Despite the tone, the weird look with the Klingons, the SJW nonsense with the casting decisions, and the political commentary by the cast and crew, I went into it hoping for a good show because I wanted to see good Star Trek again.

Sadly, Discovery is not good Star Trek. Frankly this show isn't Star Trek at all.  It doesn't even fit in with the JJ Abrams reboot, which itself already turned Star Trek's corpse into a mindless zombie searching for brains, and unlike the reboot which could at least claim to be paced well enough to make you forget how stupid it is, Discovery fails on just about every level.

Fortunately for me though, STD is locked up inside CBS All Access so even though they're going to give it a second infection...er...second season, this will probably be the last time I'll ever have to talk about it:



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  1. LLOctober 26, 2017 at 12:57 PM

    I watched the premier but refuse to pay CBS extra to view it. It wasn't that good.

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  2. CTROctober 27, 2017 at 1:42 AM

    That seems to be a fairly common response, even among the people that liked it.

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