A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.A prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, the show follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 9 wins & 32 nominations total
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- TriviaBruce Horak, the actor who plays Hemmer, is legally blind, just like his character's species, the Aenar, who are also blind.
- GoofsThere are some rank insignia mistakes. Number One is introduced as "Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley" yet she is wearing the rank insignia of a full commander: two full stripes. A Lieutenant Commander's rank insignia is a full stripe under a thin stripe (in TOS it is a full stripe and a staggered stripe). It is not uncommon for a ship's first officer to be a Lt. Commander if they have not been in the position long.
Spock at this point is a Lieutenant but he is wearing Lieutenant Commander's stripes; a Lieutenant just has one stripe. La'an is the ship's chief of security and the ship's second officer. She is also wearing Lt. Commander stripes but is addressed as a Lieutenant, but it would make more sense for her to be a Lieutenant Commander. Either way both of their rank insignia are not matching the rank they are addressed by.
Ortegas is addressed as a Lieutenant but is wearing Lieutenant Commander's strips. A Lieutenant Commander may be addressed as a Commander or Lieutenant Commander but never as just a Lieutenant, so either her rank insignia or the manner she is addressed by the rest of the crew is in error.
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[opening narration]
Captain Christopher Pike: Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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Strange insubordinations
In general, season 1 was quite good and promising. I liked the retro stand alone episodic approach. Season 2 however has removed all of my promise.
The reason being, none of the characters behave in a believable way, and are all too far up themselves for me to care about them.
The crew, especially the bridge crew, are working under a chain of command, in potentially dangerous situations. Yet they show their superiors zero respect, in fact quite the opposite, they often talk down to them with sly remarks and belittling comments, which the senior officers then happily accept. Someone of the same rank would not stand for these remarks, let alone a ranking officer, and on the bridge in front of the other crew for all that matter. It's just completely unrealistic and the ship would have descended into complete chaos within weeks in reality.
This has to be my biggest complaint so far and it is hugely putting me off the show. We don't need to go back to the largely rigid environment of TNG, but the current trend completely takes me out of the emersion of the show and leaves me eye rolling.
For some reason, the writers have decided to write the crew as negative, moany, childish characters who seem to think of themselves as quite infallible, often making smug remarks... until an episode calls for some random past event that is shoehorned into the episode to explain why they are acting scared/shy/timid etc. Which is completely out of character or context at the time.
It's become a cheap writing trick used to avoid any actual intellectual character development or real emotion the audience can connect with for more than a couple of minutes.
The show is not terrible, but it's becoming more and more of a cheap emotion grab with weak character back stories, of characters who have been written as very unlikeable people in the first place.
Finally, this show largely came about due to Anson Mounts impact as Captain Pike on Discovery, yet he is barely a bit part character in this. If you didn't know he was the Captain and in charge of the ship, you'd never guess! The writers need to remember why people wanted this show in the first place as currently, my interest in Captain Pike and his adventures before Kirk on the Enterprise is very much waning.
The reason being, none of the characters behave in a believable way, and are all too far up themselves for me to care about them.
The crew, especially the bridge crew, are working under a chain of command, in potentially dangerous situations. Yet they show their superiors zero respect, in fact quite the opposite, they often talk down to them with sly remarks and belittling comments, which the senior officers then happily accept. Someone of the same rank would not stand for these remarks, let alone a ranking officer, and on the bridge in front of the other crew for all that matter. It's just completely unrealistic and the ship would have descended into complete chaos within weeks in reality.
This has to be my biggest complaint so far and it is hugely putting me off the show. We don't need to go back to the largely rigid environment of TNG, but the current trend completely takes me out of the emersion of the show and leaves me eye rolling.
For some reason, the writers have decided to write the crew as negative, moany, childish characters who seem to think of themselves as quite infallible, often making smug remarks... until an episode calls for some random past event that is shoehorned into the episode to explain why they are acting scared/shy/timid etc. Which is completely out of character or context at the time.
It's become a cheap writing trick used to avoid any actual intellectual character development or real emotion the audience can connect with for more than a couple of minutes.
The show is not terrible, but it's becoming more and more of a cheap emotion grab with weak character back stories, of characters who have been written as very unlikeable people in the first place.
Finally, this show largely came about due to Anson Mounts impact as Captain Pike on Discovery, yet he is barely a bit part character in this. If you didn't know he was the Captain and in charge of the ship, you'd never guess! The writers need to remember why people wanted this show in the first place as currently, my interest in Captain Pike and his adventures before Kirk on the Enterprise is very much waning.
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- Aug 16, 2023
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