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Star Trek: Discovery season 3 review: Star Trek is turning into Star Wars - Polygon

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 review: Star Trek is turning into Star Wars - Polygon

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 review: Star Trek is turning into Star Wars - Polygon
Oct 15, 2020 1 min, 44 secs

note: One major spoiler ahead for the previous season of Star Trek: Discovery.].

At the end of season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery, the crew of the titular science vessel traveled 930 years into the future in a bid to prevent a rogue AI from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy.

It was a bold gambit for both the crew and the showrunners, pushing the series from a somewhat nostalgic prequel to the original 1960s Star Trek run into uncharted territory for Trek canon.

The United Federation of Planets fell soon after, and the galaxy is now a smaller, more fragmented place that resembles Firefly or the grittier aspects of Star Wars more closely than it looks like anything Gene Roddenberry would have dreamed up.

As the Discovery works to find what’s left of Starfleet and continue its mission of peaceful exploration, the third and fourth episodes of the 13-episode season settle into far more familiar territory.

Discovery’s new season resembles Star Trek: Voyager, but with the ship displaced in time rather than stranded on the other side of the galaxy.

The existence of time travel is widely known in the world of Star Trek, so characters learning about the Discovery’s origins aren’t shocked, so much as eager to get their hands on forbidden technology and the rare resources the ship has brought from the past.

Fans have endlessly debated the comparative merits of Star Wars and Star Trek, but the two iconic franchises feel closer together now, with parts of this season of Discovery resembling The Mandalorian.

While Discovery features a full ensemble crew rather than a lone-wolf star and an adorable puppet, both series follow remnants of a fallen organization trying to continue to live by a strong moral code as they journey through a broken world

As jarring as it may be, imagining such a novel future for the world of Star Trek fits well within the original mission of the Starship Enterprise: “to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

Star Trek: Discovery premieres on CBS All Access on Oct

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