I love this movie so much

Too much of everything

Best movie ever!

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

From the opening expose of Klingon..reminiscent of the 1st ST film..this series had me riveted. The production quality..the extremely imaginative and well constructed story lines.. and the culmination of the full story arc.. which made me go back and watch it all over again.. all these factors plus the characters and great acting has me chomping at the bit for series 2.

I find the alternate universe premise both interesting an worthy of further edploration. I admit the visual digression of Klingons into an orc like species is odd however i suspect, as the storyline unfolds, to learn more about Klingon evolution; mostly their near human appearance 10 years later in "StarTrek: Original Series." In closing, i found the first season to be an exceptional addition to the StarTrek cannon which is why I chose to write this my first review.

Where, o where is the Zero rating that IMDB needs to add? This would certainly rate it. This absolute trash of a show takes fifty years of Star Trek (I've been watching since 1966) and flushes it down the toilet. There wasn't one episode worth watching in the entire first season. Not one. Let's see what's bad about this show. 1 - It seems that the show runners/writers know nothing about Star Trek. If they did, this wouldn't have been created. They also lied, claiming that this takes place in the real or original time line. No way. 2 - Here's the biggest question: If this is the prime time line, where has Spock's 'adopted human' sister been for FIFTY YEARS? In a coma? An alternate reality? This is one of the absolute dumbest ideas ever. So because she was raised on Vulcan, does that make her able to be a Vulcan? 3 - Designs. The Discovery is one of the ugliest ships ever. It should be a Klingon ship. And since when to Federation ships have golden hulls? Which pinhead designed those horrible uniforms that look like they'd be rejected at Studio 54! As for the Klingon, Glenn Hetrick should be ashamed. Where the hell did they come from? They look like the only warring they would do is under a disco ball on a dance floor. 4 - Continuity. Let's just toss that to the winds. So the Federation knew about the Mirror universe at least ten years before Kirk discovered it? Why wasn't this in the databanks? Oh, we just wanted things to be cool. Yeah. ok. 5 - the cast. Sorry but the guy playing the doctor looks WAY too young for the role. Perhaps he he were an alien, that might be different. Doug Jones is great, but the character he portrays is one of the sillier aliens. Oh, he can sense death can he? So can I - just put someone in a red shirt. Oh that's right - everyone's in those ridiculous disco uniforms. This show is nothing but an obscene money grab for CBS. The sad part is, that those deluded fans who say "All Trek is Good Trek" may keep this alive for a while. I won't be one of them. I like quality writing, something this show is missing.

CBS . . . You do realize, don't you, that some of us have actually watched TOS, and the Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine and Voyager and Enterprise, and the movies, etc? This dark, dystopian, hellish series doesn't resemble the Star Trek I know and love in any way. It becomes so dark at some points that they actually have to go to the mirror universe and join the Terran Empire to make it make any sense. This was painful to watch. And I've been watching Star Trek since it was in syndication in the 1970s, and the only reason I started watching that late is because I was born in 1968. The Klingons aren't Klingons anymore. I had a hard time when they revamped the Klingons completely in 1979, but after a while I understood the reason for the changes made. Now the Klingons are just insane monsters, not a noble warrior race. All the characteristics they had in the movies and in the series from Next Generation onward are simply absent. Many of the characters have significant moral failings, and the characters do not have strong relationships with one another as they do in previous versions of Star Trek. They have this "spore drive" which is basically a magical way to travel instantly anywhere you want to go, but they still can't resolve their conflict with the Klingons.STD is aptly named; it's like a sexually transmitted disease. In other words, painful.The sound people on Pahvo look almost identical to the spores being used for the spore drive. This smacks of laziness.And it also violates canon in many instances. Harry Mudd's wife, Stella, was not young and beautiful. She was an elderly nag when Harry Mudd was approximately the same age as appears to be in STD. In fact, he had an android version of her made simply so he could tell her to shut up. So if you wanted to include Harry Mudd in the series and give him a young, beautiful wife, you simply should have had him divorce Stella and marry someone else.Sarek had always seemed a bit cold. He did, after all, have an 18-year rift with his son Spock over his decision to join Starfleet. But in STD, Sarek seems like a child abuser. He takes a traumatized child, and instead of helping her to heal from the horror of her parents' murder, he pushes her to succeed in school and criticizes her emotional reaction upon being forced to watch scenes of the massacre, instead of protecting her the way he was supposed to. There's nothing illogical about providing proper care to a developing child, or recognizing that a human being is a human being. Captain Lorca seems to be deficient in many respects. For example, he chooses a mutineer as the go-to person to run important missions for the Discovery. At one point, Michael Burnham (why give the female protagonist a male name) actually stands idly by while Lorca is killed, then saves the mass-murdering emperor just because she reminds her of the captain she failed to save. Michael has an argument with Ash Tyler, her erstwhile boyfriend, because she simply can't come to the terms that he was possessed by Voq when he tried to harm her. It's just one of many scenes that seems childish in the extreme. These people can't even resolve basic interpersonal conflicts. If you do come back with a second season, and you want to keep calling it Star Trek, you'll have to do better than this ratings fodder.