Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Scorecard

Posted by Payton Wilmott On Monday, February 19, 2018 0 comments

The first season of Star Trek: Discovery ended on Sunday, and audiences, as with many Star Trek shows before it, find themselves facing a mixed bag. We should recall that this was also true of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation: While it introduced a cast of indelible characters that would eventually prove to be more than worthy successors to Kirk and company, the storytelling was slow, and the tone was shaky. This also goes for Deep Space Nine, a show that struggled to find stories for its first season but hit a pretty powerful stride a little later. Voyager and Enterprise also started shaky, and eventually found their feet. Arguably.

Discovery has had 15 episodes to prove itself, and like its forebears got a lot of stuff right and a lot of stuff wrong. The highs were high and the lows were low, and it's time to consider whether or not the season was, overall, a net gain. Spoilers, of course, follow for the season.

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