Star Trek Discovery

[Drunk Monk]

DISCO is so odd.  It's bombastic in its effects and cinematography, overkill especially given how the tech is more advanced than in TOS and this is supposed to be earlier than that, but what can it do in the post Star Wars era.  Every ep is packed.  But every ep also seems to achieve a moment of poignancy, where no one has gone before - here it was Tig (engineer Jett) giving advice about gay relationships to Dr. Hugh (Cruz).  And there's great shout outs to the original - this one where Pike sees his future was well played, and even the Jett/Hugh bit starts with a hangnail, which is a very subtle reference to the TOS Pike show.  It caters to trekkies well.