Star Trek: Discovery - My Review (so far...)
I suppose I should start this by saying where I'm coming from. I do like a bit of Star Trek . I even quite like the bad films - like Star Trek 5 (the one where Kirk meets God and calls him a git). Its not that it always good science fiction, or even that it is always good fiction. But is has always been something different to most other television sci-fi. An ensemble based fiction built around optimism for the future, something Gene Roddenberry visualised from the outset. Through 5 different series the program has tackled issues associated with race, gender, trans-gender, disability and social exclusion. It isn't about diversity, but diversity is in Star Trek DNA. Its a hopeful, positive future where humanity is constantly striving to be all it can be in an occasionally hostile but always dangerous universe, and that is what makes Star Trek unique. It has also taken great pains to stay, roughly, internally consistent. Really we've only got Doctor Who and Star T