The Vulcan Hello

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.

Sorry but this first episode of the new Star Trek series was absolutely unwatchable. As bad as the J. J. Abrams Star Trek universe already is on the big screen, this episode was like J. J. Abrams on steroids:-) Star Trek is an intellectual chess game-- not a shoot em up action series.

And to make matters worse, the main character (Sonequa Martin-Green) won't stop talking-- ever!!! And no military, on Earth or in space, would ever run a crew like this.

The producers of this series act as if they're totally unaware of the new age of quality science fiction and fantasy television and its style: Syfy's Battle Star Galactica, Game of Thrones, Westworld, Humans, the Man in the High Castle, The Walking Dead, the Handmaid's Tale.

They really need to end this mess and start all over, IMO.

I absolutely love Star Trek Discovery, yes things may have changed, ideas updated, modernised, but it is all so exciting and uplifting especially in this present time so I keep going back to re watch. I am a serious trekkie, have been all my life, this new take is refreshing and awe inspiring, it feels like family right from the start and I am totally addicted and cannot wait for the new season.

Ill be honest, I'm not someone you'd class as a huge Star Trek follower, the only show I did watch without fail, was Deep Space None, though I am trying to watch more, this came up as a suggestion, I thought I'd give it a try. My review is an outsider looking in.

Those desert visuals look incredible, I was blown away by just how incredible it looks, question though, was it all style over substance?

In some ways no, in some yes. Overall, I didn't mind it, I find the conflict and setup interesting, I am intrigued to learn more. On the downside, I don't feel I got to know any of the main characters, in this early episode, they could have spent some time introducing them.

Let's see if we get a bit of substance from the cast pretty soon.

Did The Klingons look this this? I don't remember this being an accurate look, I may be wrong. Shows, Dr Who included always think that as time passes, it calls for aliens to change in appearance.

It's not bad, I want to see more, I understand why so many reviews are so passionate, it's a franchise people care for.

Decent, 6/10.

They should have been One Ep anyway, not broken up into two. Because its basically setting up who is to be a Main Character, a girl raised by Sarek, and her unusual outlook on things. So it all happens on a ship that's not discovery, with a bean counting Captain whose religious adherence to the Prime Directive ends up starting a war.

These Klingons are Klingons. When One of them Dies, they all do the Klingon Death Ritual which Worf demonstrated in "Heart of Glory".

And these Klingons may look slightly different, but they are Klingons. Just missing some hair and a bit meaner looking.

The Story is what makes this Trek. It's not just the gadgets or the ships, or the aliens, it's the social commentary.

Imagine, a White Klingon. Who has no Family Name. Imagine an androgynous person who was raised by Sarek to think critically? These are very relevant things, relevant to us. In all of these years, nobody ever considered that Klingons also have Races.

The Klingons here, react as to "The Other", as "Us vs Them", in fear of losing their culture. Because Michael, our main character, happened to accidentally kill their Torchbearer.

That's another concept, "The Light of Kahless", it's as if this is something Holy to the Klingons, and Michael inadvertently contaminated it. It's like one of us, touching a Muslim's Quran. We can't make any progress until we start respecting other people's belief systems, and that includes Atheism as well as our 3 world religions and the many others.

That's what Trek really IS, it's not how their Communicators and Tricorders look, or how their uniforms look, or how their ships look. It's all about a different way of thinking. And that was why Michael failed to convince her Captain to dole out the Vulcan Hello, because The Prime Directive was being treated as an Absolute.