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Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the come-and-get-it dept.

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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  1. Re:whatever by cyberzephyr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
  2. The Orville by Jezral · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Positive here by AntiSol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.