Star Trek: Discovery 3.1 Review - Ups And Downs From That Hope Is You

10. It Is Beautiful (Up)

Star Trek: Discovery has, since its first moments, shown the audience what Star Trek with a budget can really do in depicting the galaxy around it. That Hope Is You continues in this vein, depicting not only an oddly stunning debris field that Book and Burnham fly through in the early part of the episode, but also utilising the vast, lonely beauty of the Icelandic backdrop as well.

Though this is not the first time that Star Trek has visited Iceland, with the black terrain featured in Star Trek Into Darkness, it is however a beautiful display of the enormous potential that Iceland has in depicting strange new worlds.

The rivers and the waterfalls, the lakes and the rocks - the combine to make a surface unlike any the audience has yet seen, appearing truly alien, with the help of a little CGI, while still remaining firmly grounded on Earth.