10-01-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com

Star Trek: Discovery Returns Next Week. Here's an Easy Way to Get Caught Up

by Erik Henriksen
It was a rocky beginning. The first season of Star Trek: Discovery—the series that, in the US at least, exclusively streams on the deeply annoying, otherwise useless, pay-per-month service CBS All Access—had its share of stumbles, and it wasn't until the season's final episodes that it started to gel. When it it finally did, it started to feel like a promising new Trek—one that embraced both exploration and humanism. Or... whatever the interstellar equivalent
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