Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2

How on earth this apalling politically motivated fan fiction trash ever gotpast the studio I'll never know.Such a shame because the actors and actresses are really good as are the production values.Burnham, the Empress and Pike are clear stand outs - they desperately need a capable writer.Unfortunately the stories are clearly female written - lacking in logic (sic) and any formof science fiction ethos of attempted or consistent scientific plausibility. There is a bigdiffference between science fiction and science fantasy. Having a tense dramaticscene based on not being able to solve a problem then seconds later coming backwith "I've looked at the data again and we can do it after all" is audience manipulationof the worst kind. As for the person pushing his wheel-chair in the background -well Star Trek doesn't seem to offer much hope for the dissabled in the future does it?Presumably they've taken on board the myth that Star Trek is all inclusive and are determinedto get every race gender homosexual variation and dissability in every episode and nevermind the story - that's incidental.Far too many women on and off screen looks to be the main issue.As for the ability of every character to have intimate engineering knowledge ofeverything - it's just hillarious.When will they learn the Star Trek Voyager lesson?This is beyond political correctness - it's simply inept.You could write a book on what's wrong with this series - or maybe a trilogy.

A similar start to those of other reviewers.... I've been a Star Trek fan since it was first broadcast on UK TV in 1969 and have all the series and films on video and DVD, having watched them ad infinitum. So here is my "take" on Discovery.To put it bluntly, I think Discovery is excellent. Series 2 is an advance on the first, and the "darker" nature perceived by many isn't a bad thing. A grittier approach to Federation exploration, with highs and lows is, in my view, preferable to everything always working out for the best.Discovery IS unusual, from a Trek perspective, in being (almost) ONE CONTINUOUS STORY from the first through second series. In that respect the structure is more like Babylon 5, another favourite of mine, with the plot developing from episode to episode.This allows a really DEEP DEGREE OF CHARACTERISATION. All the main characters are on show in most of the episodes. It's never a "Chakotay", "Worf", "Kira" etc. episode. The acting is of a very high standard - judge this in the natural way the main players interact with each other. In Discovery series 2 - which is really the point of this review - Anson Mount (Chris Pike) is superb, relating in a totally believable way with those under his command, notably Burnham and Spock. The "bad guy" characters may at times be a bit caricatured, but serve their purpose. This is series TWO.....For comparison, look at where things were at the same point in TNG, DS9 and Voyager, where the characters were still learning to interact properly and the stories were often wooden. And no domination by Bill Shatner with the oft-seen situation of Kirk overacting!PRODUCTION VALUES are on a par with the top-selling movies of the moment. Watch the 40 minute documentary on disc 5 and you'll be amazed that any episode ever gets completed given the complexity of effects, sets, time constraints etc.Some critics have focussed on the issue of Discovery breaking with "canon" - the ongoing Trek timeline set by all the other series. This IS a major consideration for ALL true Trek fans. I was concerned with the concept of the spore drive and the relative sophistication of a mid-23rd century vessel, given what we've seen before. But the latter tends to fade into the background the more you watch and the scene on the Enterprise 1701 bridge at the end of the final episode shows how Kirk's ship may have looked if TOS was being filmed today. The innovative solution to Burnham's actions/spore drive/red angel suit etc. is interesting and goes a long way to restoring canon objections - even if the Federation hierarchy display a degree of gullibility when faced with the testimony/explanations of Spock, Number 1 and Pike at the end! Pushing it or not, it makes for some exciting episodes in series 3.Overall, the pluses FAR outweigh the negatives. Enjoy the programme for its exciting storyline and state-of-the-art CGI. And since things happen - a LOT of them - which have never happened before, the series "boldly goes where no man has gone before", which is the essence of Trek.And the Discovery crew make the point, as they did in series 1, "We are STARFLEET!!"

I have all the box sets of Star Trek, all series. This second series still has not struck me as Star Trek. It is action packed and good from that point of view. But the characters are one dimensional and the acting is not to a high standard. Really disappointing.

I think the Discovery series is excellent but I am disappointed with this particular boxset compared to that of season 1. First of all they have changed the picture ratio to that of a more pronounced letterbox effect compared to the season 1 boxset. Where is the consistency? Then there is a problem with the info on the discs. The titles printed on some of the discs do not match the actual contents - one of the episodes is named on two different discs. So all in all a carelessly produced product indeed.

WHAT CAN I SAY THIS IS A BRILLIANT SERIES SO UNDERRATED AND THE PRODUCTION VALUES ARE OF THE HIGHEST THE STORIES EVEN THOUGH TREKKIES ARE SAYING ITS NOT "CANON" REALLY NEED TO GO WATCH SOMETHING ELSE OR EMBRACE AND THINK WELL ITS ANOTHER STORY IN THE STAR TREK WORLD THE STORY IS GREAT AND THE CHARACTERS SO HONESTLY PORTRAYED AND BELIEVABLE AN EXCITING SERIES AND I FOR ONE CANT WAIT FOR THE 3RD SERIES TO COME IN 2020 DECIDE FOR YOURSELF AND DON'T BELIEVE THE CRITICS WHO ARE SO WRONG IN MY OPINION

Having just watched series 1 on E4 on Sky, we were so impressed with the pre-TOS story lines we bought the DVD set for series 2. We've just watched the first 3 episodes, and it does not disappoint. My only criticism, minor niggle really, is that the episodes printed on the Disc 1 are incorrect. By which I mean, Disc 1 has 4 episodes printed on the disc face, but there are only 3 episodes on the actual Disc, and the forth episode is on Disc 2. As far as I can tell this is just a printing error and probably follows for all the discs. It doesn't imply any episodes are missing. I haven't checked all the discs!