Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where no Star Trek show has gone before
There’s never been a Star Trek show entirely like Star Trek: Discovery.
It’s been more than 10 years since Star Trek: Enterprise left the airwaves, and in that time, television as a medium has changed a lot. And for a Star Trek show to survive in today’s day and age of so called “peak TV,” Trek was going to have to change too.
Fortunately, it seems Discovery is up to the task, both as a successor to the Star Trek legacy and as a new TV show in its own right.
Spoilers for the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery follow
First things first. At this early stage, at least, Discovery is surprisingly satisfying, to the point where it’s easy to forget the hubbub of chaos that surrounded the show’s…