The Vulcan Hello

It will be a while before I see the second episode. I'm already overloaded with extra charges for features. Anyway, this first offering has a strong female character who rants and raves and pays no attention to orders. I know she is strong willed and is going to take over soon, but she is downright insubordinate. First, she talks her Captain into letting her go on a reckless flyby. When there, she ignores the realities of her situation and the possibility of no return. When she gets back (through the intense work of the crew) she jumps out of the device that is saving her. She starts making demands. Meanwhile the Klingons are intent on waging war because she killed one of them. I just flat out grew tired of her. When this becomes available on DVD I guess I'll check it out. First episodes and pilots are always stiff and sometimes badly acted. I just found this whole thing boring. Beyond the great special effects, the story seems really tired.

1. The Klingons were stolen from Galaxy Quest,from a scene with character doing cosplay. 2. The uniform was stolen from Killjoys,because the poor producers and even Abrams don't know the fans don't like tight uniforms. 3. The nevrotic behaviour of the main characters was stolen from nu BSG,even this was the only flaw of the show ,excepting the female Starbuck. 4. The bathroom scenes were stolen from B5,last seasons. 5.The LBGT kiss scenes were stolen fom Torchood. 6. I come to peace phrase was stolen fom Dark Angel ,one of the best movies with aliens as good as Predator. 7. Emperor's weapons were stolen from Season Of The Witch and Dark Angel. 8. The Cyborg girl was stolen from Guardians Of The Galaxy (Nebula),a movie full of stolen ideas fom Star Trek (which is ironic is in't it ?..) like Andorian's anr Orion's look and they also stole the blue guy's look from Farscape ,from a plant alien. 9. The Klingon prequel conflict with the Klingons was stolen from A Prelude To Axanar,there is no wonder they were against that production so badly. 10. The ship's name and the encounter with Enterprise from the second season were stolen from Star Trek Horizon,which is also a fan made production. 11. The Tardigrade idea was stolen from an youtube LBGT sci-fi cartoon fan production ,Captain Tardigrade ,Defendor Of The Multiverse,created in 2015. 12. Kayla Detmer's Cyborg's character is a pale copy of Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. 13. The blink jumps and blink drive was stolen from Dark Matter . 14. The Star Trek Discovery shorts were stolen from the numerous short gif anti or pro Star Trek Discovery movies from Tenor.

I give it a 4 based entirely on the CGI.

This is going to be another war and explosions Trek.

It is tailored for fans of the movie reboot time line. A real letdown.

The story is not very Trek-oriented.

Read the critical review posted here. It sums it up well.

What an intergalactic mess, Please make it not so.

I am a devotee to Star Trek. I love it, I've watched every episode from each production many times over.

During those decades of watching, you build an affinity to the theme and vision of the overall story, the structure, the characters, the forward movement—to boldly go where you haven't gone before. So why in the heck, has Star Trek put on the brakes of going forward and has started going backward with the wonderful universe they have created.

The TV show Enterprise, the three new movies and now Star Trek Discovery, all have gone backward in time. And all lack the freshness, the adventure, the unknown of the other shows.

Can you imagine if lived was like that?

My family had the old black wall wired phone when I was going up. We graduated to a modular phone with color, then wireless phones, cells and now smart phones. Would anybody like to back to those old obsolete phones?

So, why is a sci-f- show created to give us a positive glimpse of the future, constantly going backward?

OK that's bad enough, but the new ST Discovery doesn't even feel like a trek show. While Spock was brilliant and courageous, their science officer is a coward. Kirk and Spock, Picard and Ryker, Sisko and Kira, Janeway and Chakotay were tight. In just the first episode of Discovery you have the first officer committing mutiny. The Klingons look like a cross between turtles and large pieces of liver. They can barely move with all the make-up and bulky costumes. Overall if you take away the trek badges and emblems and I wouldn't have any idea what the show was about.

The sets and effects are terrific, as they should be with 2017 technology. However, they are used in a vehicle that bears no resemblance to the Star Trek I have loved for a half century. Why work so hard to build a great story structure, then ignore it.

And of course, the final insult, showing one episode on regular TV then hiding the rest of them on the Internet. Some say the show has a "cinematic look." Yeah, a cinematic look that's doomed to laptops. It's quite clear that CBS is not interested in making true Star Trek, it's interested in making millions of dollars and it's using trek to establish that money base.

Overall, I think Gene Roddenberry would be turning in his grave over this money-making contraption they call Star Trek Discovery.

Never watched Star Trek before, so I can't comment on whether this is or isn't Star Trek. However, I found it pretty weak. It's lavishly produced, with convincing effects, but for a pilot episode it starts in a weird place, thrusting the characters into the thick of the action before we've even got to know them. The only characters we get to know at all are Michael, Saru and the Captain. None of the other characters get any screentime at all, not even a chance for us to find out who they are. It's like there are only three characters. If the episode had just taken care to set the scene, develop the characters and gently set up the plot it would have been much better. Instead, we're thrust into a dramatic plot with no reason to care. As someone who's never watched Star Trek, I know very little of its universe. A little bit of an introduction would provide some context to all of this. As it is, I don't even know what exactly is at stake, which robs it of suspense.

Additionally, the Klingon internal politics is weak. Their arguments against each other boil down to very simple sentences that came straight out of a Hollywood textbook. The Klingon design looks pretty bad too, like they're made of plastic, as does their ship. None of it is convincing, which is weird because apart from that the visuals of Discovery are stunning.

Not that there isn't anything to enjoy here. The way the plot thickens and the arguments between Michael and the Captain about how to tackle the Klingon threat add complexity, as well as Michael's perceptive comments about race not being the same as culture (something EU politicians need reminding of regarding the migrant crisis)...

But overall, it feels like they were trying to cram a season's worth of story into one episode. There's a reason why there wasn't a battle in episode one of Game of Thrones, maybe the creators of Star Trek Discovery should learn from that.