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.

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Re:whatever

[cyberzephyr]

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?

I see the Production value and it is very good but. That is not the Trek way.

I feel that the only folks getting this show are wealthy fans and Pirates.

The Orville

[Jezral]

They should fire the writers of Discovery and hire the Orville team instead. Marry the solid writing of a real Star Trek show (The Orville) with the high production values of the knock-off (Discovery).

The Orville is a true to form Star Trek show disguised as generic sci-fi.
Discovery is generic sci-fi disguised as Star Trek.

Re:The Orville

[Rockoon]

Just think about the SJW-Trek bullshit that The Orville has been putting out:

Ok lets see your examples of SJW stuff...

Away teams consisting of three women, one man and one robot, and the women spend many minutes of screen time talking about their feelings

No, thats not SJW stuff. SJW stuff is not "stuff that old people may not like" ... SJW is making it gratuitous. For instance your next point fits the bill, because the homosexual scenes were gratuitous, they were the plot.

Multiple domestic conflict situations, including an overtly gay couple and an episode where the captain and first officer spent most of the time together in an apartment talking about their relationship

Star Trek didnt make Kirk kissing Uhura the plot. Star Trek in fact *downplayed* its significance. Meanwhile the homosexual scenes in that other show *were* the plot. It was gratuitous. Instead of just being there to show how normal it was in the future, instead it consumes the episodes to show how abnormal it is today. Its needlessly gratuitous bullshit. Full blown SJW crap.

An entire episode about a society that thinks women are inferior and forces gender transitions on infants

Nothing SJW about that.

The old "religious zealots" plot line, an obvious dig at religious conservatives

Sure, not a dig at the religious liberals. Your true intolerant colors are showing.

Re:It kinda sucks.

[Rockoon]

"SJW"? Star Trek has always been a show with liberal values.

Star Trek never made it gratuitous. Liberal values yes, but not SJW. That "fan" show with the gratuitous gay scenes were *about* the gay scenes. Star Trek on the other hand was always about something else... with the liberal values just being there, rather than the whole point of the whole show.

Re:Positive here

[AntiSol]

That's precisely why this is not Star Trek. The crew are supposed to be "infallible and near-perfect". The whole point is to show an optimistic future where humanity has overcome its petty differences and started actually working for the betterment of all. This is the core principle of Star Trek. Everything else is a side-effect of that. If you want to watch people squabble over inconsequential things and torture animals for their benefit, go watch something that isn't Star Trek. There's tons of it, and lots of it is great if that's what you're looking for.

This isn't Star Trek, this is "Generic action sci-fi show #48911" with a Star Trek sticker slapped on it so that people will buy it.

Oh, I signed up, all right

[fyngyrz]

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.

I signed up. I watched the premiere. It was terrible. That was the end of my signup.

I don't know WTF is wrong with having a damned science advisor on the production team, and listening to them. But apparently there is something wrong with it. Because they either didn't have one, or they didn't listen to them, either of which is deadly for producing something that purports to be SF.

I'll grant you that trek has always been some kind of broken, science-wise, but this version, the premiere anyway, was near maximum suck.

And then there were the long angsty conversations in the captain's ready room when there was a bloody emergency going on.

What a load of CGI-shiny poop.

Re:whatever

[Joviex]

Thats your opinion. My wife even likes it, which is not true of any previous trek series.

That should tell you 100% who its aimed at: NOT TREKKIES.

Congrats for making our point.