‘Star Trek: Discovery’ returns with an old friend, while ‘Vikings’ remains on its game

CATCH UP ONVikings: (all five seasons available on Amazon Prime) The History Channel series from Michael Hirst has remained consistently entertaining even as it has, for the most part, moved on to a new generation of Viking warriors in Season 5 – some even traveling to distant lands as real Norsemen did. There is still a fair amount to be reckoned with some of the remaining characters. Like anything with monarchs and broadswords, there is a “Game of Thrones” element to it