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Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com)
Engaget reports that CBS' Star Trek: Discovery series is being renewed for a second season. The show has reportedly been enough of a success to justify a second season of episodes. From the report: The move comes as a vote of confidence for both the show and its platform, since it has recently aired the sixth of its fifteen-episode first season. Now, a second run of Discovery will air, presumably at some point toward the back-half of 2018. Discovery has certainly benefited from plenty of hype, since it's the first Trek show to air as a TV show since 2005. The pull of the Star Trek name was always going to be a draw, but it wasn't clear how much of a draw given the saga's lackluster popularity at the box office. CBS refused to offer numbers, but did boast that Discovery's debut lead to the highest number of sign-ups in the history of its All Access service.
Yeah, you might as well wait. Everyone outside the US gets a better deal.
Canadians get it through the Space channel with surround sound.
Everyone else gets it through Netflix, presumably with surround sound.
Americans get it through a streaming service with crappy stereo sound.
I'm presuming there's actually a lot of viewers outside the US that's causing a lot of the interest, though I know of a few people who really did sign up for just one show.
It's a solid show but this pay channel crap screws everything up. paying for one show is dumb since folks pay a ton of money for channels they DON'T watch.
I'm surprised that there are folks that would pay for another channel for what, a single show?
They really don't have to make much money from AllAccess to pay for Discovery. From what I understand, they made a profit on Discovery just by selling the rights to Netflix to show overseas. They could get 20 people sign up for their crappy streaming site and still the show has already made a profit.
Of course they're going to sign the show for a second season. The fact that they haven't released numbers probably means that All Access didn't do nearly as well as they had hoped.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Holodeck Pre-TOS: It was supposed to be new in the Era of TNG.
Holographic Displays everywhere: Was there *EVER* any in Trek?
Transporters like they're safe!: McCoy was still concerned about transporters in TOS, and the tech was still known for mishaps in the TOS era. Yet they use them in EVERY POSSIBLE SITUATION they could be dangerous. I mean beaming them off a small fast moving fightcraft being fired on by the Klingons? That sure seems like the sort of situation a 'new' technology would have mishaps with.
The biggest issues so far were believing Michael had ever passed for Vulcan, that the commander woman who was sleeping with the Captain and died on Discovery was that stupid, and that Tilly/the Admiral were that touchy feely emotional as a recruit on a Black Ops ship, and an Admiral in the Federation. The Admiral sleeping with the Captain just felt like something out of The Orville, which makes wonder if the fraternizing in that show was a jab at ST:D (even more apt giving all the sleeping around.)
Here is hoping at 2 seasons, it will also be notable for being the shortest Trek series ever and not get a third...
Having said that, the Captain, the gay scientist, the doctor, and a few other characters have all been top notch, if not what you'd expect of Trek figures. Honestly if they had spun it as an original show and omitted the Trek aspects I might like it, but too much of it feels JJ Abrams inspired, rather than post-Enterprise or strictly pre-TOS. Personally I think it would have been a lot better if they had done it in retro motif with TOS style sets and uniforms and kept the budgets small. Oh and make an intro that seemed like a Trek instead of an evolution of the crappy intro in Enterprise. Trek is about *SPACE*, show a starscape, show a ship. Don't show a crappy montage on a sepia colored screen.