![]() ![]() After two years struggling to break free of the expectations set by all those Federation Captains who had so boldly gone before, Discovery had finally succeeded, with the start of its third season, in staking out a narrative territory all its own. Gone, maybe most importantly to me, were all those overly prostheticized Klingons. All it took was one deus ex Michael wormhole, and bam! Gone was the confusion surrounding Discovery’s place in “classic” Star Trek chronology gone was the tension arising from the Discovery’s wildly advanced spore drive technology gone too was the increasingly difficult task of wedging Michael into Spock’s well-trod personal history. When I weighed in on it at the time, it was to rave about the wild swing the now Paramount+ series had taken when it flung Michael, Philippa, and the rest of the crew of the USS Discovery forward 930 years into the future at the end of its second season. I mean, they weren’t bad! But nor were they groundbreaking (or even consistently paced) enough to keep some of the franchise’s more fair weather fans engaged.Ĭut to: The fall of 2020, and Discovery’s long-awaited Season 3 premiere. That it also found two women of color in starring roles-Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, the series’ bull-headed idealist lead, and Michelle Yeoh as Phillipa Georgiou, the Star Fleet Captain / Terran Emperor who mentors and terrorizes her in turn-well, that just made Discovery’s future feel all the brighter.Īnd yet, for all the admiration that Martin-Green, Yeoh, and the rest of the cast earned from critics and the wider audience, alike-not to mention the success Discovery had in landing CBS All Access an alleged windfall of new subscribers-the series’ first two seasons were, from a storytelling perspective, just… fine. ![]() The first new Star Trek series to launch since Enterprise took its final bow in 2005, Discovery marked a bright new beginning not just for the long-lived science fiction franchise, but for the Star Trek Originals empire ViacomCBS had gone all in on when it made its flagship subscription service, CBS All Access (now Paramount+), the home for all things Federation. When Star Trek: Discovery premiered in 2017, it was to no small amount of fanfare. ![]()
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