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Trending: What Disco Fans seem to like

Finished tinkering around. I can live with the way I have everything listed now. A voice has been given to the people who vote but might not post much. And it's interesting to see what they have to say.
 
Somehow, I think the insanely high ratings for the mid-season finale and mid-season premiere in Season 1 balance out the lower ratings from early on.
 
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Lord Garth said:
As I mentioned before, I've been keeping track of the averages for each episodes. If you rank the episodes, certain patterns seem to emerge.

People really seem to like the Mirror Universe. If you take out Short Treks, three out of the Top Five episodes took place over there.

Despite some complaining about the TOS Stuff, people are a sucker for it. "If Memory Serves" easily claims the Top Spot. "The Escape Artist" and "Calypso" are basically tied. I personally think "Calypso" -- which had no TOS ties whatsoever -- is the best episode put out in the Disco Era. Period. I know I'm not alone in thinking this. But "The Escape Artist" held its own against it.

It looks like the Klingon War wasn't liked as much, yet "Into the Forest I Go" was the highest rated episode until "If Memory Serves". There's an interesting discussion to be had there. What puts "Into the Forest I Go" above the other Klingon Episodes in posters' minds? Maybe the epic battle, maybe the catharsis, maybe the twist ending.

Not including "If Memory Serves" or Short Treks, "New Eden" was the highest rated second season episode among members here. It was also the most "traditional" episode Discovery has ever done.

At a 6.7, "The Vulcan Hello" rates lower than any other regular episode, but it also had twice as many people rating it a bad score (anything below a 5). 77 negative ratings out of 397 for "The Vulcan Hello" versus 34 negative ratings out of 311 for "Battle at the Binary Stars". So I imagine it was a case of half the people who sampled DSC decided to bail after the first hour. Maybe they watched on CBS and decided not to get CBS All Access. Or the one episode was all they needed to see. Because "Battle at the Binary Stars" had a 7.4. This is just my opinion, but I don't think there was much of a difference in quality between the two halves of the Series Premiere.

"Runaway" only got a 6.5. Maybe because people didn't quite know how to rate a Short yet. But maybe people were wondering what the point of "Runaway" was. It looks like we might find out this week!

Here are all the episodes in order of how they were rated, so you can see for yourselves:

SORTED BY AVERAGE
Avg... Med... Dev... Episode ...... Title
9.1 ..... 9 ...... 1.3 .... DSC 2.08 ..... "If Memory Serves"
8.8 ..... 9 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 1.09 ..... "Into the Forest I Go"
8.8 ..... 9 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 1.10 ..... "Despite Yourself"
8.4 ..... 9 ...... 1.4 .... ST 1.04 ........ "The Escape Artist”
8.4 ..... 9 ...... 2.0 .... ST 1.02 ........ "Calypso"
8.4 ..... 9 ...... 1.7 .... DSC 1.11 ..... "The Wolf Inside"
8.3 ..... 9 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 2.02 ..... "New Eden"
8.3 ..... 9 ...... 1.7 .... DSC 2.04 ..... "An Obol for Sharon"
8.3 ..... 9 ...... 1.8 .... DSC 2.01 ..... "Brother"
8.2 ..... 9 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 2.09 ..... "Project Daedalus"
8.2 ..... 9 ...... 2.2 .... DSC 1.13 ..... "What's Past Is Prologue"
8.2 ..... 8 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 2.06 ..... "The Sound of Thunder"
8.1 ..... 8 ...... 1.8 .... DSC 2.12 ..... “Through the Valley of Shadows”
8.1 ..... 9 ...... 2.1 .... DSC 1.12 ..... "Vaulting Ambition"
8.0 ..... 8 ...... 1.6 .... ST 1.03 ........ "The Brightest Star"
7.8 ..... 8 ...... 1.9 .... DSC 1.06 ..... "Lethe"
7.8 ..... 8 ...... 2.0 .... DSC 1.05 ..... "Choose Your Pain"
7.8 ..... 8 ...... 1.6 .... DSC 2.07 ..... "Light and Shadows"
7.6 ..... 8 ...... 2.2 .... DSC 1.07 ..... "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
7.5 ..... 8 ...... 2.1 .... DSC 1.14 ..... "The War Without, The War Within"
7.5 ..... 9 ...... 2.0 .... DSC 1.03 ..... "Context Is for Kings"
7.5 ..... 8 ...... 2.0 .... DSC 2.05 ..... "Saints of Imperfection"
7.5 ..... 8 ...... 2.1 .... DSC 2.10 ..... “The Red Angel”
7.5 ..... 8 ...... 2.5 .... DSC 1.15 ..... "Will You Take My Hand?"
7.4 ..... 8 ...... 2.2 .... DSC 1.02 ..... "Battle at the Binary Stars"
7.3 ..... 8 ...... 2.0 .... DSC 1.04 ..... "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lambs Cry"
7.3 ..... 8 ...... 2.0 .... DSC 2.11 ..... “Perpetual Infinity”
7.2 ..... 7 ...... 1.9 .... DSC 1.08 ..... "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
7.0 ..... 6 ...... 2.3 .... DSC 2.03 ..... "Point of Light"
6.7 ..... 7 ...... 2.5 .... DSC 1.01 ..... "The Vulcan Hello"
6.5 ..... 7 ...... 2.3 .... ST 1.01 ........ "Runaway”

Next is a list sorted by Air Date to track progress over time:

SORTED BY AIR DATE
Episode........ Avg... Med... Dev... Title
DSC 1.01 ..... 6.7 ..... 7 ....... 2.5 ..... "The Vulcan Hello"
DSC 1.02 ..... 7.4 ..... 8 ....... 2.2 ..... "Battle at the Binary Stars"
DSC 1.03 ..... 7.5 ..... 9 ....... 2.0 ..... "Context Is for Kings"
DSC 1.04 ..... 7.3 ..... 8 ....... 2.0 ..... "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lambs Cry"
DSC 1.05 ..... 7.8 ..... 8 ....... 2.0 ..... "Choose Your Pain"
DSC 1.06 ..... 7.8 ..... 8 ....... 1.9 ..... "Lethe"
DSC 1.07 ..... 7.6 ..... 8 ....... 2.2 ..... "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
DSC 1.08 ..... 7.2 ..... 7 ....... 1.9 ..... "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DSC 1.09 ..... 8.8 ..... 9 ....... 1.6 ..... "Into the Forest I Go"
DSC 1.10 ..... 8.8 ..... 9 ....... 1.6 ..... "Despite Yourself"
DSC 1.11 ..... 8.4 ..... 9 ....... 1.7 ..... "The Wolf Inside"
DSC 1.12 ..... 8.1 ..... 9 ....... 2.1 ..... "Vaulting Ambition"
DSC 1.13 ..... 8.2 ..... 9 ....... 2.2 ..... "What's Past Is Prologue"
DSC 1.14 ..... 7.5 ..... 8 ....... 2.1 ..... "The War Without, The War Within"
DSC 1.15 ..... 7.5 ..... 8 ....... 2.5 ..... "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST 1.01 ........ 6.5 ..... 7 ....... 2.3 ..... "Runaway”
ST 1.02 ........ 8.4 ..... 9 ....... 2.0 ..... "Calypso"
ST 1.03 ........ 8.0 ..... 8 ....... 1.6 ..... "The Brightest Star"
ST 1.04 ........ 8.4 ..... 9 ....... 1.4 ..... "The Escape Artist”
DSC 2.01 ..... 8.3 ..... 9 ....... 1.8 ..... "Brother"
DSC 2.02 ..... 8.3 ..... 9 ....... 1.6 ..... "New Eden"
DSC 2.03 ..... 7.0 ..... 6 ....... 2.3 ..... "Point of Light"
DSC 2.04 ..... 8.3 ..... 9 ....... 1.7 ..... "An Obol for Sharon"
DSC 2.05 ..... 7.5 ..... 8 ....... 2.0 ..... "Saints of Imperfection"
DSC 2.06 ..... 8.2 ..... 8 ....... 1.6 ..... "The Sound of Thunder"
DSC 2.07 ..... 7.8 ..... 8 ....... 1.6 ..... "Light and Shadows"
DSC 2.08 ..... 9.1 ..... 9 ....... 1.3 ..... "If Memory Serves"
DSC 2.09 ..... 8.2 ..... 9 ....... 1.6 ..... "Project Daedalus"
DSC 2.10 ..... 7.5 ..... 8 ....... 2.1 ..... “The Red Angel”
DSC 2.11 ..... 7.3 ..... 8 ....... 2.0 ..... “Perpetual Infinity”
DSC 2.12 ..... 8.1 ..... 8 ....... 1.8 ..... “Through the Valley of Shadows”

Season... Average... Median... Standard Deviation
DSC-1 ..... 7.73 .......... 7.6 .......... 2.03
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Trending where? Google? The Twitters? I'm not trolling or anything. This actually seems interesting, but I'm just really honestly pretty stupid and I'm not too sure what I'm looking at here. :)
 
Ralphis said:
Trending where? Google? The Twitters? I'm not trolling or anything. This actually seems interesting, but I'm just really honestly pretty stupid and I'm not too sure what I'm looking at here. :)
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Trending in the forum. Now that I have all this information put together, we can dissect it and compare it to elsewhere. Like IMDB for instance, like Cake linked to.

Overall, I think it's good to see what people are more interested in and less interested in when it comes to the series and what people here think who aren't as vocal or are just lurking.
 
Lord Garth said:
Trending in the forum. Now that I have all this information put together, we can dissect it and compare it to elsewhere. Like IMDB for instance, like Cake linked to.

Overall, I think it's good to see what people are more interested in and less interested in when it comes to the series and what people here think who aren't as vocal or are just lurking.
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Ah, ok. Sorry. Sometimes I'm a little dense.
 
Small observation
Is it valid to rate Short Treks alongside 50 minute plus episodes ?
Surely its best to have the shorts in a sub section to compare to each other
15 minutes of screen time compared to 50 minutes is not a fair comparison, if you get my drift.
I am also an amoeba on the Trek knowledge scale so, maybe also a little dim
 
Delta Vega said:
Small observation
Is it valid to rate Short Treks alongside 50 minute plus episodes ?
Surely its best to have the shorts in a sub section to compare to each other
15 minutes of screen time compared to 50 minutes is not a fair comparison, if you get my drift.
I am also an amoeba on the Trek knowledge scale so, maybe also a little dim
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That's why I differentiated Short Treks in the list of ratings by identifying them as what they were. And why when I was looking at the patterns I observed, I'd separate Short Treks from what I noticed sometimes. i.e. "If you don't count Short Treks... " But other times they supported a larger point I was trying to make.

When I do the Season Average for Season 2, I'll leave out Short Treks and do another average for them. But I wanted to list everything that was related to Discovery.
 
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Thank you for the valuable information. My favorite episode by far was Memory Serves followed by New Eden which felt like classic Trek. I appreciate all the work involved.
 
XCV330 said:
Context Is For Kings is honestly the real season opener for Discovery season 1 and sets the pace and tone thereafter. I can understand Vulcan Hello and the 2nd part not being that popular. It kind of throws this unfamiliar world at you all at once, the only bright spot of which is the assurance that Michelle Yeoh is on board and oh. ..yeah she died.

but I thought Context would be higher rated, honestly.
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BillJ said:
My favorite is still "Context is for Kings". Shows what I know... :rofl:
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The median for Context is 9, same as Forest and the MU arc for the first season - the average seems to have been seriously dragged down by a bunch of outlying negative votes.
 
I don't know about what ALL Disco fans seem to like, but I know my girlfriend likes "If I can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman. :devil:

Sorry, I'll grab my tricorder on the way out.
 
What I like is Pike! Remember how there was a Breaking Bad and it didn't seem like a show could get much better? Then the Genius Known As Gilligan created Better Call Saul and the interesting thing is he made it work creating new characters in such a way that you look forward to seeing BCS link up with BB. I realize its difficult to find a writing team such as the GKAG but this is what this fan wants from Discovery.

So I want a pre Kirk program (Discovery) that seamlessly links the adventures of Pike and crew to the handover to Kirk. This what I was led to believe. Why else start before Kirk unless the intention is to come in from behind and reboot Star Trek?

I believe your expert poll shows that Pikecentric Episodes are fan favorites. I also believe CBSAA subscription rates are up and growing faster than expected. So, thank you for your poll and please continue your good work. I am so excited waiting for the climax Thursday night and making myself crazy trying to guess what the future holds for Discovery.
 
Updated stats to reflect the second season as a whole. I didn't include Short Treks in the average. Looks like "The Red Angel" and "Perpetual Infinity" were a rough patch for some people. It also looks like the end of S2 was better received than the end of S1, but I didn't need a calculator to tell me that.

I screwed up on the Median for "Context Is for Kings", so I fixed that. I also double-checked everything else to make sure there were no other mistakes.

Overall, people rated the second season better than the first, but it wasn't a dramatic difference. It was a 7.8 for S1 versus an 8.0 for S2 the average. There was also less deviation this year in the ratings for each episode.

The Highest 3 Rated S2 Episodes
"If Memory Serves"
"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II"
"New Eden"

The Lowest 3 Rated S2 Episodes
“The Red Angel”
“Perpetual Infinity”
"Point of Light"
 
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