Star Trek: Discovery - 8 Reasons Why It's The Best Series Since TNG
5. There's A Budget To Back It
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Although it would seem fairly facile to implicate the budget and the budget alone in raising Discovery's stakes, it's truer now more than ever that Star Trek needs to be backed in a big way in order to compete on a variety of different fronts.
That's not to say that previous shows were cheap either; The Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager were all given the finances to tell the story they had to, but Enterprise wasn't as fortunate. That show, situated at the beginning of Starfleet's existence, suffered from a plethora of different ailments, but the fact of the matter is that it just didn't look that good.
Discovery, on the other hand, looks fantastic, and is able to portray the scope the franchise demands with space sequences and action set-pieces alike looking convincing on all accounts. It's a breath of fresh air for a franchise that has so often been constrained by technological limits - particularly on the small screen - and again reiterates Discovery's ambition to portray the mythos to the best of its ability.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
