Travis, thanks so much for this excellent news! What a pleasure!!

It was a 95% certainty to be honest. How the second season goes is crucial to the shows success. It needs to keep its viewers and it also need to generate some word of mouth interest in fan circles and in entertainment circles.

Enterprise's fate was arguably sealed in its second season, with its lack of good anything. No good narrative, lack of originality, boring stuff that has been done much better.

👍 Good news. Really enjoying the direction this show has been heading after the first couple of episodes.

Interesting to see Lorca's different take on the Captain's role...

@The Midi-chlorian Count said:

👍 Good news. Really enjoying the direction this show has been heading after the first couple of episodes.

Interesting to see Lorca's different take on the Captain's role...

Let us hope Lorca is still here for Season 2.

given up already.

The honeymoon period will be over after season 1. They'd better get their act together by season 2.

How could they undo all the damage? Pull a Dallas and say that season one was just someone's bad dream?

Time travel ? Yeah, time travel is played out, but if it'll salvage this show, go for it.

If you feel like you need this show to be "salvaged" in some way, rather than time travel, have you read the dimension jumping theory?

Someone put forward the idea that the spore drive, as well as causing spacial movement, is actually causing trans-dimensional jumps and that they will eventually land up in the TOS universe with the device broken...

Interesting idea but personally I'm happy to watch this as a complete stand alone series.

@The Midi-chlorian Count said:

Interesting idea but personally I'm happy to watch this as a complete stand alone series.

I wouldn't have minded that either, but THEY went and called it Star Trek, and said it takes place 10 years before TOS. So all the problems are their fault, and nobody else's.

@Knixon said:

I wouldn't have minded that either, but THEY went and called it Star Trek, and said it takes place 10 years before TOS.

Can't argue with that, certainly true... However, it was pretty obvious from within the first 10 minutes of the very first episode (in fact before - the trailers) that this show had no place alongside what you might want to call the exisiting "canon". So really the choice lies with individual as to whether they want to be constrained by that...

I view it in the same way as the Star Wars prequels - it's possible to "make peace" with them if you just view them as a retelling and nothing to do with the OT. Only difference is that Discovery is miles better than the prequels 😂

I read a pretty good article about this on The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16535404/star-trek-discovery-canon-continuity-spock-michael-burnham-technology-klingons

I tend to agree with the general point at the end which is to not worry about it and just enjoy STD as a new thing.

@Knixon said:

@The Midi-chlorian Count said:

Interesting idea but personally I'm happy to watch this as a complete stand alone series.

I wouldn't have minded that either, but THEY went and called it Star Trek, and said it takes place 10 years before TOS. So all the problems are their fault, and nobody else's.

Maybe in upcoming seasons, there's going to be a space virus that affects humanity and makes them slightly dumber and forget a lot of things. That's why technology seems more primitive in TOS.

After 7 episodes of "The Orville," I'm ready to stick a fork into "Star Trek: Discovery" and say "It's done." NCC-1031 may have a Spore Drive that can cross light years, but they've moved about as far as S.S. Botany Bay in terms of character and story development. It is a quadrant at war, to be sure, but even a movie like "Wing and a Prayer" had more going on as "Carrier X" cruised hither and yon, just before the Battle of Midway. I see few reasons to sign on to CBS next season; I get better results renting and viewing new/old movies on YouTube. (And some of the best of the mixed bag available on YouTube have been free and very interesting.)

I wonder how much of a subscription drop-off CBS is going to have after season 1 ends (maybe even before then), if they'll be able to see that it's because of Discovery, if they'll be honest about it in reporting figures...