Star Trek: Discovery gets 9.6 million viewers in premiere
by Doc on Sep.25, 2017, under Television
Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered last night on the CBS broadcast network (slightly delayed due to football) before it goes exclusively to the CBS All Access streaming service, pulled in 9.6 million viewers and a 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demo.
It is expected for those numbers to increase in the Live+7 as people watch it on a delay.
Our impression of the show from a single viewing is that it does seem like an acceptable member of the franchise so far, although there are some issues. Most notably for us there were three things: First, although it supposedly takes place in the original series timeline (not the “Kelvin” timeline of the movies), it takes liberties with the established canon, like Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) being an apparent ward or adopted daughter of Sarek and raised as if Vulcan, yet a seemingly important familial relationship has never been mentioned and stretches the canon thin. The Klingons are yet again changed, and the fact that the U.S.S. Shenzhou is apparently a more advanced starship than the original Enterprise of our childhoods.
And we never even get to see the title ship in the premiere!
I’d like to see more, but I’m firmly in the camp of not paying for yet another streaming service – even for Star Trek.
[Edit: A previous version of this article accidentally transposed the number of viewers]