For your own good and sanity ignore her and watch it now, such a cliffhanger at the end of the 1st episode.
Canāt say much more without ruining it all but it is good, although Iām still not over the Klingons.
And Sasha from the Walking Dead makes an excellent Commanderā¦
And her uniform would look great hanging on my headboardā¦
(Which actually was a conversation we had at home - as in blimey, think this is the first time Iāve ever āfanciedā anyone called Michael)
She definitely looks better with shorter hair, less angst in her face.
Sheās tansitioned the roles well,
Netflix - brilliant.
Itās in Klingon 
FUCK
ME.
I have no idea what we have all started watching.
It has all the DNA we would expect from the Star Trek Universe but Episode 3 - the true first episode is just .
Itās just.
It aināt Star Trek.
Itās just.
Fuck, I canāt even think of the right adjective.
Bigger, Darker, Intenser, Gruesomer, beyond the next leveler?
We lucky few have slipped down the rabbit hole and didnāt even know it.
It kind of makes The Expanse seem like Red Dwarf, and no offence to either show. It makes Enterprise look like Bill & Ben, TNG look like East Enders.
I have no idea what I watched but it aināt Star Trek maybe it is Star Trek Beyond at last?- Jeez it even got Mrs D_P to sit down and exclaim FUCK half way through.
They cannot possibly keep this up, surely.
And the best bit? The actual STORY was almost inconsequential, yet it showed straight away a direction they can explore without affecting any of the āStar Trek Canonsā
Wow.
Iāve just watched the third episode, and have met USS Discovery for the first time. Hands down, probably the most interesting ship ever to front a Trek show, and also very aptly named, for the show and the audience. The decision to do the normal fiction thing, and follow just one character, pays even more dividends here than it did in the two part pilot.
TNGās pilot was a big exposition bomb. Hey kids! Hereās the holodeck. Ooh look, we can separate the saucer section. Here are all the characters youāll see each week!
On Discovery, we continue to see nearly everything from the perspective of Michael Burnham, Starfleetās first mutineer, who finds herself on the eponymous starship this week. While some answers are provided, Discovery is still something of a mystery. Itās a science ship focused on the war effort, and a big part of this episode involves Burnham trying to determine just what sort of stuff itās involved in.
I get where @dubai_phil is coming from when he says that itās not Trek, but Iād disagree to an extent. This feels very much like the Dominion War in Deep Space Nine, a show that deliberately went out to break nicey nicey Trek conventions from the start. So itās unusual, but so was DS9 - and I think itās the āTrek with conflictā bit that Discovery was interested in pilfering.
TNG shows the Trek world in relatively good times. Ds9 and Discovery are all about what happens when the Federation is in an existential struggle. The morally ambiguous and ruthlessly pragmatic Captain Lorca is perhaps the personification of the conflict between Federation principles and what you need to do to win a war, a theme artfully explored in this weekās episode.
Just to be clear Pap.
We love this. My only complaint is that it is STILL visually a bit dark - that helped the tension when they entered the Glenn but also was difficult to make out some images.
As a show it already has 11 out of 10. As Trek it shows just what they should have done with the Kelvin reboot movies.
Characters script implications interaction and visuals are just so good.
But for me fuck that idea of a shuttle with Windows- barf! Brilliant visually but made me feel travel sick just watching it 
MY ONLY gripe? Why havenāt they booked S2 already!
A proper review by Star Trek Geeks
Contains some minor spoilers so best to read AFTER watching episode 3
I pretty much agree with it btw
OK. Ep.3 done.
Marvellous
Unbelievable. PC gone mad? ST have to issue an āapologyā because they only kill off Asian womenā¦
There will always be someone thatāll be offended what ever you do, regardless of good intentions. Social meeja just gives them a disproportionate level of coverage. I suspect in this case most people were interested in the storyline and werenāt aware of the āissueā even most āpocāā¦
More seasons "likely
Havenāt done a review of episode four yet.
Iāve seen a lot of people say that it wasnāt quite the rollercoaster the first three episodes were, and part of that is inevitable. The first three episodes were spent getting Burnham onto the Discovery. Now weāre here to stay, Thatās not unusual; even the Expanse eventually settled their crew into a ship, and that is where we see them.
Burnham still isnāt liked when the episode begins, or trusted. She has uniform, but no rank. The win-at-any-cost Captain Lorca tasks her with investigating the creature he secreted off the Glenn in the previous episode. The science team are still trying to crack the secrets of the insta-travel spore drive.
There are a lot of uber-nerds losing their shit over some of the Discovery āchangesā, but I canāt help thinking theyāre going to end up having to eat their words. Two examples; the look of the Klingons and perhaps more importantly, the existence of this super travel device that would have turned Star Trek : Voyager into a padded two-parter with a lot of character moments.
Iām also on record as saying that I donāt really care what they do with the Klingons cosmetically, as long as they fit the warrior cultured personified thing, and that the writers should just do their own thing and not pander to fans.
Thing is, after watching episode four, I think weāll end up seeing human looking Klingons and the abandonment of the spore drive technology. This isnāt a spoiler, merely speculation, but I saw plenty in this episode that reminded me of the writers imploring the fans to have a bit of faith.
The Discovery is a special ship. With the destruction of the Glenn last week, itās now pretty much a one-off, a bleeding edge science vessel cum warship that is going to use bleeding edge technology. Itās a very smart move by the writers, because it allows them to sort of violate canon but then say, āha! we didnāt really!ā. Many of Discoveryās discoveries will end up on the cutting room floor, the spore drive among them. This episode illustrated that it doesnāt come without a cost, and has set up a robust future ethical debate. Is the suffering of one creature justified if it helps win a war? I expect the show will get to post similar dilemmas as it comes across new things.
The albino Klingon back this week, and itās his last scene that makes me think weāre going to see the human looking Klingons emerge, and that he may well be the first. Hope it ends up going that way. Apart from silencing the fanboys, itās also another interesting dilemma to put on screen. How much will he sacrifice? āEverythingā, apparently. Telling that āRemain Klingonā is their mantra.
Excellent episode. Not the wild ride weāre used to, but lively enough, and it has probably planted the seeds for bigger things.
Just watched Ep.4. Really good. No, actually really, really good.
The best thing was that it carried on from the last episode and spoiler alert, it carries on in the next episode.
Just watch it, enjoy it, thatās all there is to it. Donāt over analyse guys.
Edit: Just about to watch the new Red Dwarf, from my perspective just as good as Star Trek, only different.
Ah, cāmon.
Wonāt it be funny if the folk screaming on YouTube about how shit Discovery is get a little comeuppance?
I was beefing with some dude on Twitter a couple of weeks ago that claimed the look of the Klingons retroactively made DS9 and TNG worse shows.
Itāll be fun if the writers make good on their promises.
Iāve watched all of these so far, as i used to like older versions and you lot going on about it has got me interested(a bit).
Itās ok, nothing special, but may grow. Very American(which does put me off), a bit light as far as plot goes(very American) and why is she called Michael(the biggest story in it)?
Her and the first officer seem good(the only two plausible characters so far), no one else, especially not that one she shares a room with. How the fuck did she get a job on a starship? Thatās taking the āfictionā bit too far.
Over all, i think iāll generally stick to books. Flashing lights and explosions(very American) donāt really appeal. That said, i will give it a while(how many episodes in this series?). Itās new and can evolve(itās sci-fi, it can go anywhere) so happy to have this thrown back in my face if they succeed.
Sorry @pap but iām still wondering if youāre review had more content than the last episode.
Hmm. Did you miss Jason Isaacs (Lorca) Smiler? More British than Jean Luc and more off the wall than Kirk so far? 
Star Trek is a TV show so it des need to come down from the ācinematicā level of the opening story telling.
Pap hasnāt given anything away, itās bloody obvious the Hawkings Wall or simply the ādandruffā or electrical charges building up in the uniforms mean there is something more wrong with Spore Tech than abusing a creature.
What we have is the scene set. We are only 10 years in front of TOS after all. Watching the after show (God that bloke has an annoying voice) it seems we will be dealing with the dilemnaās of the Federation that were touched on in the Kelvin Timeline āInto Darknessā - some of the Federation are warriors/war like - and some are science and some are explorers.
I think the fact that Disco is already showing how the crew are torn by Lorca the Warrior fighting for their survival while they debate the ethics of all out war are the key here. (Kind of rammed down us with a sledge hammer in the āWeaponise itā stuff regarding the monster)
Michael as the key character is also doing a fine job of playing a broken soul. But my only worry is that like Spock in the Pilot and first episode of TOS she is channelling that āinner discordā into āWooden Actingā. Iām not sure how long we can tolerate her simply being glum all the time. I like that she is the centre piece, but Lorca is also showing a depth of character, I hope Disco havenāt pinned too much on her ālooksā and that she can actually act.
The positive point is that Mrs D_P now likes it. Doesnāt love it (as she did eventually with TNG DS ( & Voyager) but getting there
So Burnham stop being wooden and someone kill that git on After Trek and life in the Federation Universe will be prefect once a human has made a Klingon Pregnant (or some kind of Augmentation Side story kicks in)
Agree that Michael and Saru are decent characters, but canāt agree that there arenāt any more decent characters.
One of the things I like about Discovery are the characters. Rewatching episodes 3 and 4 with the missus last night, I was surprised at how much I felt I knew Cadet Tilly, Michaelās socially awkward Jiminy Cricket room mate, and weāve only seen two episodes so far.
Sheās the opposite of Cadet Wesley Crusher, a character that TNG made annoyingly competent and clean cut, to great fan derision. Sheās very aware of her own failings, not afraid to vocalise them and yet, thereās an inner strength that makes her desire to be a captain not quite so ridiculous.