Yet one would likely have to be a true “Star Trek” completist to feel sold, based strictly on the opening flurry, on signing up – and anteing up – for “Discovery’s” full tour.
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IDW’s four-part Discovery comic is set before the events of the rapidly-approaching TV series, and will explore the background of Chris Obi’s character T’Kuvma, the leader of the faction of Klingons we meet in the show, and how he’s come to stand a little separately from his fellow Klingons in the Empire.
The third through eighth “Star Trek: Discovery” episodes will be streamed Sundays, from October 1 though November 5, with the new “After Trek”, episodes streamed at 6:30 p.m.
As you may have heard, Star Trek: Discovery is also available to stream on Netflix but not for everybody.
But, despite a reportedly troubled gestation, they’ve somehow managed to deliver, audaciously using their first two episodes to set up several seemingly key characters before wiping the slate clean in the closing moments. And we also frequently visit the upstart Klingon leader T’Kuvma (Chris Obi) as he attempts to unify the 24 Houses of the Empire with a unsafe plan of aggression.
In fact, there may be no better description of this theme than returning to its roots. The show offers up a fair amount of background, some of it ultimately unnecessary, and balances that with a massive helping of Klingon ritual and ceremony, most of which will prove wasted effort by the time the series really gets underway. Newman even mocked Star Trek fans on air when they wrote in to complain about the contempt Nine showed for viewers. Sci-fi fans pining for Battlestar Galactica’s Starbuck will surely thrill to see the Vulcan-raised human First Officer holler with joy, rather than fear, as she floats her way into the middle of uncharted space. That said, those same actions are also a bit tough to buy into as a viewer, and considering how important they are, the pilot rushes through them too fast.
Soon enough, Michael is redeeming herself by accompanying Georgiou on a suicide mission to capture T’Kuvma on the Klingon ship, ticking the Trek checklist box for senior management’s consistent failure to delegate the most risky missions. On the other, it makes flawless sense to talk about them together: I can’t think of another time when a new TV show has launched and, after less than an hour, asked viewers to pay for a streaming service they probably don’t want in order to continue. Instead, the show has opted for an illustrated and design-intensive sequence.
Star Trek: Discovery debuted to positive reviews.
Have you watched Star Trek: Discovery yet? So why do their two worlds look so different?
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There’s also a neat visual reference to JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek movie.
