Star Trek Discovery: Eps. 1/2 Review

John E. Price
7 min readSep 25, 2017
Why is the delta different? Why are you using the Enterprise’s delta in the first place?

The worst sin a piece of entertainment can commit is to be boring. For all its sweeping vistas and dutch-angled jump cuts, the premiere of Star Trek Discovery is, above all else, boring.

Everyone knows going in that this is a story about a single character, not a ship or crew like previous iterations of Star Trek. And that’s fine. I appreciate that they’re trying to not be stale. But in order for…

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John E. Price

Academic and Trekkie. I talk about the politics of culture, review nerd stuff, and golf a lot. Co-host: @podmeandering, #TopFive, @folkwise13