STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
Don’t have CBS All Access to watch The Stand? Don’t sweat it – just be patient. In two or three years, you’ll probably be able to watch it as a repurposed, recycled rerun on the CBS broadcast network. If, in two or three years, there still is a CBS broadcast network. That’s what CBS is doing now by rolling out, week by week, Season 1 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered on CBS All Access years ago. And since I watched then, I can tell you that tonight’s episode is a particular joy to long-time Star Trek fans, because it ends up in the good old “mirror universe” introduced back in the original series, which allowed the heroic protagonists the chance to confront their evil, and more sexily dressed,doppelganger counterparts.