In the history of Star Trek, no other series has faced as much pre-launch scrutiny as Star Trek: Discovery — other than, perhaps, The Next Generation. Speaking to Inverse in 2018, Jonathan Frakes likened the fan pushback against early Discovery in 2017 to the same kind of grief Trekkies gave his crew in 1987. But now, five years later, the triumph of Discovery is that it not only proved the haters wrong but built a new Star Trek empire in the process.
