We’ve been waiting for Star Trek to return to its home (aka TV) for far too long, and now the franchise is back! Now that Season 1 is ending, we’re retiring this hub as a place you can come and check out all of our reviews from the first season.
Here’s our review of the season finale, and here’s what we think that crazy cliffhanger might mean.
Akiva Goldsman Defends “Darkness” of Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode Guide
Click on the blue links for a full review of the Star Trek: Discovery episode…
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 1 — The Vulcan Hello
Original air date: 9/24/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 2 — Battle at the Binary Stars
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 3 — Context is For Kings
Original air date: 10/1/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 4 — The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For the Lamb’s Cry
Original air date: 10/8/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 5 — Choose Your Pain
Original air date: 10/15/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 6 — Lethe
Original air date: 10/22/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 7 — Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Original air date: 10/29/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 8 — Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Original air date: 11/5/17
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 9 — Into the Forest I Go
Original air date: 11/12/17
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Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 10 — Despite Yourself
Original air date: 1/7/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 11 — The Wolf Inside
Original air date: 1/14/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 12 — Vaulting Ambition
Original air date: 1/21/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 13 — What’s Past Is Prologue
Original air date: 1/28/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 14 — The War Without, The War Within
Original air date: 2/4/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 15 — Will You Take My Hand?
Original air date: 2/11/18
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Trailers
If you’ve yet to watch Star Trek: Discovery and want to get a taste for the show, here’s the official trailer…
And another…
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Release Date
Star Trek: Discovery launched Sunday, September 24th.
Moving forward, all new episodes of the first season will be available exclusively on CBS All Access every Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Star Trek: Discovery is All About the Fight For the Federation’s Soul
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Timeline
Star Trek: Discovery takes place ten years before the original Star Trek series. Make no mistake, though, this series is set firmly in the original timeline, not that of the new movies.
Star Trek: Discovery Timeline Breakdown
To learn more about the Star Trek: Discovery timeline and the status of Alpha Quadrant at the time of its story, check out this video from YouTube channel Templin Institute.
Star Trek: Discovery Cast
Let’s break down who all these characters are…
Discovery Crew
First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green)
Sonequa Martin-Green, best known as Sasha Williams in The Walking Deadand Tamara in Once Upon a Time,plays Michael Burnham, a human who was mainly raised on Vulcan by Sarek following the deaths of her parents at the hand of the Klingons.
Cadet Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman)
One of the breakout characters of Discovery has been Cadet Tilly, Burnham’s roommate, friend, and mentee. Tilly is a bit socially awkward, but makes up for it with enthusiasm, ambition, and heart.
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Saru (Doug Jones)
Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth) plays Lt. Saru, a science officer. Saru is a new species of alien.
Speaking to EW about his character, Jones teased:
Lieutenant Stamets (Anthony Rapp)
Rapp is Lt. Stamets, an astromycologist aboard the Discovery who is vital to the workings of the spore transportation drive.
Discovery is first Star Trek series to feature openly gay characters in a relationship. Rapps’ Rent co-star Wilson Cruz plays his character’s partner, Hugh.
Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs)
Jason Isaacs plays the role of Captain Lorca, the military-minded captain of the Starship Discovery.
Lieutenant Tyler (Shazad Latif)
Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful, Toast of London) plays Lieutenant Ash Tyler, a new member of the Discovery crew put in charge of security after escaping from a Klingon prison cell with Lorca. Ash is suspected by much of the internet of secretly being Klingon Voq, on board the Discovery as a spy.
Star Trek: Discovery Cast Talks Season 1 Romance
Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz)
Wilson Cruz (Rent) plays medical officer, Dr. Hugh Culber. Culber is also Lt. Stamet’s romantic partner.
Klingons
T’Kuvma (Chris Obi)
Chris Obi (American Gods, Snow White and the Huntsman) plays T’Kuvma, a Klingon seeking to unite the Klingon houses and Kol’s mentor.
L’Rell (Mary Chieffo)
Mary Chieffo portrays L’Rell. A former follower of T’Kuvma and current follower of Voq, she is currently undercover on Kol’s ship, though still seemingly loyal to Voq.
Kol (Kenneth Mitchell)
Kenneth Mitchell (Frequency, The Astronaut Wives Club) plays Klingon commander Kol, protege to T’Kuvma.
Other
Captain Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh)
Michelle Yeoh plays Captain Georgiou, the captain of the Starship Shenzhou and Burnham’s mentor.
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Sarek (James Frain)
James Frain plays Spock’s Vulcan father, Sarek. The character of Sarek has a long Star Trekhistory, first appearing in The Original Seriesbefore going on to make appearances in four of the Star Trekmovies, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in the 2009 Star Trekmovie.
In Discovery, Sarek is the adopted father of Michael Burnham.
Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson)
Star Trek: Discoveryis paying homage to The Original Serieswith the return of fan-favorite conman character Harry Mudd. This version of Mudd first appeared in Episode 5 when he was in a Klingon prison cell with Lorca and Tyler.
Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirschner)
Mia Kirschner plays Amanda Grayson, aka Spock’s mom and Burnham’s adopted mother.
Admiral Kat Cornwell (Jayne Brook)
Jayne Brooks plays Admiral Kat Cornwell, a high-ranking member of Starfleet and one of Lorca’s oldest friends.
Star Trek: Discovery Production
Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts assumed the role of showrunners after Bryan Fuller stepped away from the show, with Akiva Goldsman getting a “top creative role.”
Alex Kurtzman also executive produces the new show, and had this to say about the process:
Kurtzman was previously one of the masterminds of the recent Star Trek films that were directed by J.J. Abrams. He co-wrote Star Trek (2009) with Roberto Orci, and he also co-wrote Star Trek into Darkness (2013) with Orci and Damon Lindelof.
Star Trek: Discovery — What Led to Bryan Fuller’s Exit
Nicholas Meyer, the director and uncredited co-screenwriter of The Wrath of Khan, will serve as a consulting producer on Star Trek: Discovery.
TrekMovie got the word from Trek authority Larry Nemecek that Star Trek: Discovery has added two new writers: Aron Coleite (Heroes) and Joe Menosky (a Trek veteran with episodes of Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine to his name).
Other writers include: Ted Sullivan, Erika Lippoldt, Bo Yeon Kim, Craig Sweeney, Sean Cochran, and Tyler Dinucci.
— Jason Isaacs (@jasonsfolly) July 15, 2017
Star Trek: Discovery Filming
The new Star TrekTV series boldly went where no other Star TrekTV series has gone before: Toronto. Discocery is the first live-action Star TrekTV show not to film in Southern California.
Production on season one began on January 24th, 2017 and went through September 2017.
