Discovery' Isn't Nearly Good Enough to Warrant Yet Another Streaming Service (Commentary)Like a lot of other people out there, I watched the first two episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” on CBS All Access Sunday night. Also, like a lot of other people, it was the first time the thought had even occurred to me to use the service, because I don’t watch anything on CBS except for sports. I’m a millennial, so that’s not all that surprising. The question for me going into the night was: Can this one show somehow convince me to pay for yet another streaming service? Let’s take a look real quick at all the video services I’m currently subscribed to: I’ve got Netflix with the 4. K option. I’ve got Amazon Prime. I’ve got Hulu. I’ve got freakin’ cable (OTT services like Sling don’t cover my full diet of sports), with HBO and Showtime.

Also Read: 'Star Trek: Discovery': 5 of Your Biggest Questions Answered. To put it bluntly, I don’t need any more entertainment subscriptions. I’ve got way more than I could ever want, honestly, and I wish I weren’t stupid enough to pay for all that stuff. At this point, what’s another $6 a month for CBS All Access? Not much. But there’s a principle involved here.

I don’t want to encourage TV networks to roll out proprietary streaming services, for one. It would be very tough for “Discovery” on its own to be good enough to override that. And, no, “Star Trek: Discovery” is decidedly not good enough. The pilot looks like a live- action video game cutscene with its fan film- quality CGI and nauseating canted angles. It tries its best to be inaccessible to people who aren’t “Star Trek” nerds, kicking off with one of many scenes of Klingon philosophizing — and continuing to be as obtuse as possible even when it switches back to the Federation characters. First impressions are hugely important when you’re trying to sell a monthly subscription to people who signed up for a free trial in order to see what’s up.

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And this show’s first impressions were not great. From a business perspective, though, gearing it toward “Trek” fans, and at everyone else’s expense, sort of makes sense. If you’re trying to dupe people into paying for a 2. Those folks were already the ones who had the most reason to use CBS All Access given its library of “Star Trek” shows. Maybe a better name for the service would be “Star Trek All Access.”Also Read: All 3.

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Star Trek' Main Characters Ranked, From Spock to Wesley (Photos)But since I’m not part of that built- in fanbase, I can’t help but feel apathetic after those first two lackluster episodes of “Discovery.” I was intrigued by the idea of a Peak TV “Trek” show, but I have way too many other shows to watch — especially now that the fall TV season is kicking off — to care much for something that’s only available on a service I wouldn’t use for anything else. The best case for “Discovery,” probably, is for the rest of the season to be good enough for, when people pay for a month to binge watch the full season after it ends, they’ll decide it’s worth a subscription in Season 2. I mean, who knows, maybe it’s actually CBS’ “Game of Thrones” and will end up being hella addictive. I can’t say what the future holds. Watch French Film Online here. But I can say, right now, that the first two episodes of “Star Trek: Discovery” aren’t good enough for me to feel awesome about the idea of supporting a major corporation’s cynical attempt to foster a proprietary streaming service.

Try harder, CBS. Get back to me when you have a real slate of new shows. In its half- century history, "Star Trek" has challenged us to boldly go where no one has gone before. The best characters have often encouraged vigorous debate among Trekkies, as they are compared by their rank and species and evaluated for differences in their flaws and virtues. The worst - - we're looking at you "Voyager" and "Enterprise" - - leave fans wondering if there's a point to their existence. Paramount. A quick note, to keep the list manageable, we're restricting the list to the main cast of the five "Trek" shows - - before the upcoming "Discovery." That means you won't be seeing movie villains like Khan or recurring characters like Q. But let it be said that if we did include him, Q would top the list by several light years. Paramount. 39. Wesley Crusher (The Next Generation)By far the most hated character in "Trek" history.

A super- genius kid who would on more than one occasion save the Enterprise while others with infinitely more experience struggled. Even the man who played him, Wil Wheaton, hated him.

Paramount. 38. Travis Mayweather (Enterprise)No backstory, no fears, no desires. No "Trek" crew member was more pointless and two- dimensional than Mayweather, except perhaps for …Paramount. Hoshi Sato (Enterprise) .. Uhura whose sole purpose was to serve as a translator for the crew since the technology for the Universal Translator hadn't been invented yet. Like many of the characters at the bottom of this list, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were unable to flesh Sato out beyond her basic premise.

Paramount. 36. Neelix (Voyager)And now for the "Voyager" portion of our list, starting with the ship's mohawked chef. He never fit into the show's plots, leaving him to spout dumb food jokes and platitudes of optimism to the weary crew. Paramount. 35. B'Elanna Torres (Voyager)Next we have the Human/Klingon hybrid lieutenant, whose entire personality too often boiled down to her being a hothead. In truth, she seemed to be designed as a mix of Worf and Tasha, but failed to even come close to being as memorable as either of them. Paramount. 34. Chakotay (Voyager)Another character that the writers ran out of material for.

At best, Captain Janeway's right hand man was a dull character. At worst, the attempts to honor Gene Roddenberry's dedication to diversity by delving into Chakotay's Native American background came off as too stereotypical.

Paramount. 33. Tom Paris (Voyager)A slightly better character who had more defined relationships with other crew members, but many of the episodes that focused on him were just variations on him being the stereotypical hotshot pilot looking for a thrill. Paramount. 32. Harry Kim (Voyager)His friendship with Paris and awkward conversations with Seven- of- Nine were enjoyable to watch, but other than that he tended to be just a stiff ensign who spouted technobabble. Paramount. 31. Malcolm Reed (Enterprise)The inventor of the "red alert" system. Unlike Sato and Mayweather, Reed had a bit of a character arc as he spent his time on the Enterprise coming out of his shell, but this didn't result in Reed becoming much more than a generally affable but nondescript character. Paramount. 30. Deanna Troi (TNG)Take a shot every time this Betazoid started a sentence with the words "I sense …" Troi spent several seasons in low- neckline outfits, serving as a counselor on a ship that rarely had any real conflict. Eventually, she was given a uniform like the others and allowed to play a role in missions, but only at a very late point in the series. Paramount. 29. Jonathan Archer (Enterprise)When "Enterprise" started, Archer was an interesting captain.

As Starfleet's first man in charge, he was bound to make mistakes, and viewers enjoying seeing how he got out of them. Unfortunately, the struggle got stale quick, as he became the "prototype" captain instead of developing into a leader in his own right. Paramount. 28. T'Pol (Enterprise)Though Jolene Blalock's acting could sometimes be as ridiculous as her fanservice outfits, the first Vulcan Starfleet officer's slow embrace of her illogical humans was interesting to watch, as was her struggle to cope with a disease that dissolved control over her emotions. Paramount. Phlox (Enterprise)Armed with a massive grin and years of medical experience, NX- 0. Denobulan doctor is what Neelix could have been, providing both regular humor and the basis for episodes that explored his values and relationship with a human race still getting used to interacting with aliens. Paramount.