In season one, for instance, it took a trip to the Mirror Universe - a famous “dark” parallel universe that’s recurred throughout Star Trek’s history the move was clearly intended to draw on fans’ nostalgia, but it also served to underline the darkness of the Mirror Universe. The episode of the week for January 13 through 19 is “Brother,” the season two premiere of CBS All Access’s Star Trek: Discovery.įrom the first, Star Trek: Discovery has been trapped between the twin impulses of finding a way to modernize Star Trek by creating a darker, more serialized version of one of TV’s oldest standbys and leaning so hard into the series’ canon that it topples over. Every week, we pick a new episode of the week.
