Overview
- Paramount+ debuted a two-episode premiere on January 15 and posted the first episode free on YouTube as a promotional push.
- Rotten Tomatoes shows roughly an 85% critics score versus about a 35% audience score, with similarly low user ratings on IMDb, reflecting rapid review-bombing.
- Right-wing accounts amplified anti-“woke” attacks, including a repost by Stephen Miller, as cast members publicly defended the franchise’s inclusive ethos.
- Early episodes establish a 32nd‑century setting with the Academy based on the mobile starship USS Athena and introduce structural shifts such as a separate War College and a Betazed leadership seat for the Federation.
- The ensemble blends new leads with returning figures like Robert Picardo’s Doctor, and the 10-episode season is releasing weekly with a second season already in production.