Star Trek: Discovery

I got to that point last night where I had run out of BBC iPlayer things to watch and Netflix had been spouting out a load of crap recently so I was left with silence through my ear phones whilst I navigated other things around the web until Chris suggested the new Star Trek series…

Now, I’d been forced to watch ‘Next Gen’ many moons ago and admittedly there are a few episodes that I enjoyed, years later I was tortured with an episode of ‘Enterprise’, the first episode of Enterprise, it was over and hour long! I honestly very nearly died of boredom, I couldn’t even tell you what happened, I remember the theme tune, that’s about it.

Of course I’ve seen the Chris Pine movies, for obvious reasons…

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Anyway, you could quite safely say that I am not a Trekkie.

It’s not very often that I pay full attention to a programme that I am “watching”. I’m usually checking Facebook, replying to emails, writing, blogging and texting at the same time.

I don’t really know what I was expecting, not much probably. I was all set to have another programme as background noise whilst I did 12,000 other things, only to have my plans scuppered by those bloody Klingons. I had to pay full attention so I could read the subtitles.

Note to self: Must learn Klingon.

By the time Captain and Commander had appeared on screen I was hooked, more than that, I was captivated. It was visually stunning, the opening credits were very 80’s, which is always a win in my book and we have some awesome kick-ass women on our screens, big tick for diversity!

I enjoyed it, the second episode seemed slightly weaker, although that could have just been my grumpiness kicking in because I was tired and didn’t realise at first that there was a second episode, then by that point I HAD to watch it just because…

So for now this will suffice to fill the ‘Game of Thrones’ size hole on a Monday evening but I might have to throw in some cake to make up for the lack of dragons, I know dragons have no place in Star Trek, completely different genres, I’m not stupid. But dragons 😦 Even our leopard gecko misses them.

Sorry, I digress.

To sum up, it was good. I’m unsure if I’ll make the full swap from Whovian to Trekkie, can I be both? A Whovekkie? Whovekkian? Trekkian? I don’t know, do you know? Do you care?