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Star Trek Discovery’s Biggest Problem (Spoilers, of course)
As of right now, we’ve seen the first two episodes of Star Trek Discovery.
Well, not really.
What we’ve actually seen is the two hour prologue to Star Trek Discovery.
Or if you didn’t pay for the honor of seeing the second half, what you saw was only the first part of the two-hour prologue to Star Trek Discovery.
The third hour of Star Trek Discovery is actually it’s first episode.
This is a major problem.
Whether you thought those episodes were boring, monotonous misfires of wasted CGI, or brilliant revolutionary reinventions of the genre is irrelevant.
CBS wanted people to watch the first hour and be so hooked, they’d fork over money to pay for a channel that has been free for 90 years to see the rest of the 15-episode show. But we haven’t seen the show yet!
CBS literally lied to its audience.
I understand that this is not a classic Star Trek setup: the adventures of one ship and crew. This is a single-character-driven story arc more in line with the Marvel Netflix dynamic. Except Daredevil doesn’t start with Matt Murdock in his senior year sociology course, it starts with him kicking villains’ asses in present day. Flashbacks and good…
