SpectrumStar Trek: Discovery (2017)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
Overview
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Spectrum
Paramount+
Apple TVBias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Female Combat: Yes
Overview
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
SpectrumParamount+Apple TVDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Star Trek: Discovery explicitly promotes progressive ideology by consistently championing diversity, inclusion, empathy, and collective action as the solutions to division and existential threats, aligning with the franchise's utopian vision.
Star Trek: Discovery demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity through its casting, featuring a Black woman as the central protagonist and including prominent LGBTQ+ characters. The series' narrative consistently explores themes of inclusion and empathy, though it does not explicitly critique or negatively portray traditional identities.
Secondary
Star Trek: Discovery features prominent LGBTQ+ characters, including a married gay couple and non-binary and transgender individuals, whose identities are depicted with dignity, complexity, and agency. The show consistently affirms their relationships and experiences as normal and valued within its diverse futuristic setting.
Star Trek: Discovery features several female characters highly skilled in physical combat. Michael Burnham, trained in Vulcan martial arts, and Mirror Philippa Georgiou, a ruthless warrior, both repeatedly engage in and win close-quarters fights against multiple male opponents using hand-to-hand techniques and melee weapons.
Star Trek: Discovery introduces many new characters and features established ones like Spock, Sarek, Pike, and Number One. All legacy characters maintain their original canonical genders, and new characters, regardless of their gender identity, do not constitute a gender swap as they are not re-gendered versions of pre-existing characters.
Star Trek: Discovery primarily features new, original characters. Legacy characters like Spock, Sarek, and Pike are portrayed by actors of the same broad racial category as their original counterparts. No clear instances of a race swap for established human or human-coded characters are present.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.0
7.0
Critic Ratings
8.4
7.3
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