10 Reasons To Stop Hating Star Trek: Discovery

No matter what you think about Star Trek: Discovery, you can't say it doesn't look good. In fact, with the boost in CGI technology since Star Trek: Enterprise, Discovery set the bar as the most visually spectacular Star Trek we'd ever had on television. Each episode felt like a mini-movie from day one. Perhaps we're all just a bit more discerning, perhaps we're all a bit spoilt?

The sheer amount of love and care that goes into making every frame is undeniable. One (relatively short) sequence alone from the series' debut episode, in which Michael Burnham leaves the Shenzhou to go to the Artefact, represented around 5-6 months of work for the creators. The Vulcan Hello was quite rightly nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) award for 'outstanding visual effects in a photoreal episode'.

The word 'vision' has another, now very loaded, Trekly-defined meaning. 'What would Gene [Roddenberry] think?' has been the natural leitmotif for all those wanting to respect the creator's ethos, but '[this is not] Gene's vision' can also work to dismiss out of hand any element of Star Trek we please.

However, as Gene himself once said in The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next, "I would hope there are bright young people, growing up all the time, who will bring to [Star Trek] levels and areas that were beyond me, and I don't feel jealous about that at all. […] It'll go on, without any to us, and get better and better and better, because that's the… that really is the human condition. It's to improve and improve."