Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

There is a large argument to just leave Discovery in this place and scoot on to the entry. The level of vitriol that the detractors of Discovery have thrown at the show has been staggering. The season has a much higher critical rating than audience rating, with several reasons as to why.

There have been comparisons with the reactions to Discovery as to the reactions to The Last Jedi, which similarly polarized opinions. There were those who loved and those who felt it had no place in canon.

One this is irrefutable: Discovery is beautiful.

With a budget of somewhere between $8 - $8.5 milion dollars per episode, the effects are staggeringly realised. While it is true that some of the effects shine more brightly than the writing, consider the opening to the show. The producers took the risk of waiting until episode three to even introduce the USS Discovery, centering the action on the doomed USS Shenzhou instead.

The Battle at the Binary Stars was a stunning piece of art, even if this would have railed against Roddenberry's idea of a peaceful future.

Therein lies the greatest argument against Discovery season one - it was so jarringly different from everything that had come before, it was quite easy to cry 'Not My Trek!' and leave it at that. However, as the season progressed, the characters began to grow more hopeful and closer in spite of the darkness that face the early Federation.

While its ambition may have outstripped its reach in the first year, Discovery has rapidly improved.