There was reason to fear that the seventh “Trek” series might be terrible because the Powers That Be at CBS didn’t screen it for critics before Sunday’s premiere, and that’s almost always a bad sign. But the first hour was good and the second hour was better … so it does appear that this was a botched rollout rather than a problem with quality.
(And it seemed even more bungled because the first episode didn’t contain much that would qualify as a spoiler because we already knew most of the plot points.)
There’s a whole lot in “Discovery” to appeal to obsessed “Star Trek” fans, including yours truly.