10 Reasons To Stop Hating Star Trek: Discovery

We've touched on this, but there is most certainly one thing you can't hate about Star Trek: Discovery, and that's its all-round everything bagel of outstanding talent everywhere on- and off-screen (please don't boo me all at once for those puns). Discovery has attracted exceptional actors from the get-go, with Sonequa Martin-Green, well known for The Walking Dead, as Michael Burnham, and movie star Jason Isaacs as Captain Lorca. Sci-fi worlds then collided when renowned director David Cronenberg came aboard in season three as Doctor Kovich.

For real-world science, the theory of parallel universes is just that, a theory, but in science-fiction the idea has long been a boon to storytellers, and most importantly here, it gave Discovery two versions (if one all but brief) of Philippa Georgiou for Michelle Yeoh to play. Unless you have been living in the Mirror Universe all this time, you'll be aware that Yeoh recently won an Oscar for her performance in another universe-hopping tale and will be returning to Star Trek in 2024 in the 'Section 31 Original Movie Event'.

The behind the scenes talent and creativity on Discovery also spans universes. Just as gaudy medals had adorned the chests of The Original Series and Enterprise's despotic counterparts, for Star Trek's return to the mirror universe in season one, the props department created a whole list of dastardly Terran commendations, and the regalia pins to match, including "Master of Poisons," "50 Kills," 100 Kills," and "Mortal Wound Survivor".