10 Times Star Trek Hit The Reset Button
4. Star Trek Goes Back To The Small Screen
Venture near the internet and one is sure to find many passionate opinions on Star Trek: Discovery. Since the initial announcement of the new prequel show, there has been a lot of intense debate as to whether or not its good, great or absolutely terrible. That is a question best left to the gods. What it is, however, is a hard left turn in the direction of the franchise.
Much like Star Trek 2009 before it, Discovery served to reinvigorate the franchise, while bringing it back to the location it had always enjoyed the most success: television. While the Star Trek films were certainly popular, it was and remains the television shows that invite the greatest discussion and following.
In a similar way that The Motion Picture did in 1979, Star Trek: Discovery enjoyed a far higher production budget than much of what had come before. Computer technology had also advanced significantly since the days of Matt Jefferies' Enterprise, meaning more could be done with the ships and universe it attempts to depict.
The designs on the show are deliberately different from what came before, making it a new era of Star Trek in an old era of history. This is really a question of personal taste. Gone are the days of the old Constitution class ship, here to stay are the more angular, sharper designs by John Eaves and the rest of the crew behind the camera.
Each season is serialised, character decisions have consequences (most of the time) and the galaxy certainly feels like a more dangerous place (although that may just be the Twitter comments).