Star Trek - Discovery

[Robin Winter]

One season and this is already my favorite Trek series.  It has some LGBT representation, which is awesome, and it's just dark and amazing.  It's a nice change from the stuffed shirt crews in series gone by.  Tell me I'm not alone in this???

[Carolyn Marie]

I've enjoyed the show, too, Robin.  I with you on the dark aspects of the show, and the LGBT stuff.  But I do wish it had just a tad more humor.  The characters are VERY stern and mostly one-dimensional, with the exception of Cadet Tilly.  But I'll continue watching.  One thing that's confusing is how the technology of this prequel to the original series makes sense, given what the crews on the original had?

 

Carolyn Marie

[Robin Winter]

Yeah, the inconsistencies had a lot of people up in arms, but the most accepted reasoning is that it's an alternate universe, so maybe technology developed differently.

As for humor, I think once the actors grow into their roles it'll pick up.  Just about any series is a bit flat in the first season but once the actors get to know their characters a bit things loosen up.  Also, the entire first season was pretty tense, stress would have been high and humor hard to come by.

[RikkiWilson]

Is this the Star Trek that is only available on CBS Access? 

[Robin Winter]

On 5/16/2018 at 2:54 AM, RikkiWilson said:

Is this the Star Trek that is only available on CBS Access? 

I think it must be available on other formats depending on your location.  We just stream it tbh.

[RikkiWilson]

On 5/19/2018 at 12:32 PM, Robin Winter said:

I think it must be available on other formats depending on your location.  We just stream it tbh.

 

I'll see where else I can find it but if that's the only place I can I'll legit pay for a subscription just to watch 

[Robin Winter]

I found a legit source other than cable here in Canada.  Crave TV has it (Canadian Streaming service owned by Bell).  I know that isn't helpful to you, but in case any Canadian members are looking.