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Osmos

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** Apple Design Award winner and iPad Game of the Year! ** Enter the Darwinian world of a galactic...

Osmos for iPad

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** Apple Design Award winner and iPad Game of the Year! ** Enter the Darwinian world of a galactic...

The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eigteenth Century Europe: 2016

Edoardo Tortarolo

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Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily...

MobiShield HD

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MobiShield protects your iPad . Get MobiShield HD for Security Scan, Data Backup, System...

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1 in TV

May 24, 2019 (Updated May 24, 2019)

Packed full of great characters (0 more)

Klingons aren't very interesting in this (1 more)

Wired propulsion system makes little sense

Slick action packed adventure

I grew up on Star Trek The Next Generation and was pretty obsessed with it, all those now defunct VHS tapes...sigh. I enjoyed the Original series (in particular Doctor McCoy) but things started to go awry with Deep Space Nine and I struggled to get into it until the later series and the Dominion came into it. Voyager never did a lot for me the Borg made it tolerable at times and I just plain gave up on Enterprise so it’s safe to say I went into watching Discovery without much hope but came out of season 1 pleasantly surprised.

Set before the adventures of the Original series Discovery is a star-ship with a revolutionary propulsion system and set to be a key part in the battle against the Klingons which this series focuses on (the look they went for with the Klingons in this didn’t work for me - too much like a Cornish pasty head.)

Unlike previous incarnations, Discovery doesn't focus around the Captain, instead we focus more on the character of Michael Burnham who’s pretty a smart kick ass type of girl. It’s the characters and the acting in this that really engaged, I don’t think I’ve liked as many of the main cast as this before.

When we start dealing with the Mirror universe (remember goatee Spock in the original series?) this series really got going for me I love the Terran empire and when we meet the Emperor it’s just great.

This series was full of continuing story lines (unlike the more traditional Trek standalone episode formula) and had a lot more action based feel to it. It’s different but enjoyable, looking forward to watching series 2.