Discovery S1E01

ugh, bad new show, imo. it's starts almost cool, Klingons, but they speak very slowly....

Then we get to the dull Bernam lost on a desert planet with Giorgio. They open up a water well to save a community, probably violating the prime directive....if that exists at the time.

Giorgio starts walking, as if she somehow can plan the foot paths to make a combadge visible from space....even though their footprints could never be seen. Absolutely ridiculous.

And then the ship comes down and floats a few hundred feet above the planet's surface....very unrealistic...even for sci-fi.

Theme - very cool graphics, not a ship flying through space, I don't like it. If my memory is right, a former housemate of my sister's and her then boyfriend and eventually husband worked either on the Discovery intro or the Enterprise intro, I don't remember which, but I do remember the discussion of hating the intro as a Star Trek intro, but absolutely praising the graphics and what the intro is for itself regardless of what I want a Star Trek intro to be, which is a ship flying through space...not the tech....

Cool new aliens, odd uniforms that don't fit anything we've had before, remotely.

Bernam has no emotion, which being raised on Vulcan might be expected, but it makes for a dull character this early without that information of her upbringing.

"Something's out there but no one can tell me what or where it is." cliche. ugh.

Sensors don't work, so they use their eyes and a telescope. Cool use of telescope, but poorly acted scene from Bernam and Giorgio.

Curiosity killed the cat.... They fly out in a space suit to the unknown object, no shuttle, very dramatic.

Computer voice is bad!!! ew. it's like a video game mission, and bad!!

Attempting to be like The Motion Picture, and failing miserably

radiation is bad....messes up tech....creates health risk...cliche....

communication failure.....cliche....