‘Star Trek: Discovery’ just entered a whole bunch of new universes

If you’ve been wondering whether to jump on board with Star Trek: Discovery, the show CBS is using to sell its $6-a-month All Access streaming service, Sunday night’s episode answered your questions with an unqualified yes … just in time for its long mid-season break. 

When the show returns in January — spoilers for the mid-season finale follow — the crew of the Discovery will literally be in a new universe. And that’s not the only place that Episode 10, “Into the Forest I Go,” took us for the first time. 

We also got what I believe is Star Trek’s first proper, full-on gay kiss, as well as its first ever sex scene. Unfortunately, the latter turned out to be a PTSD-inducing Klingon-on-human rape, one that shockingly subverted all our expectations about one character.   Read more…

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