RED ALERT: You Can Now Stream All Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ On CBS All Access

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! Or, if you’re at all familiar with Star Trek: Discovery protocol, then this might as well be a BLACK ALERT! Things are serious, because you can now stream all of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access.

This RED ALERT is for everyone out there that was like, “Pay for a monthly CBS All Access subscription? Pssssh! I’ll wait until Season 1 is wrapped, get my free trial, and binge it all during one week!” Well…. okay, the time is now! It’s time to commence procedure! Following the release of the finale, all 15 episodes of Discovery are now waiting for you to binge once you sign up for CBS All Access.

So how do you sign up for CBS All Access?

First, you can get answers to general CBS All Access questions right here, in a piece we put up ahead of Discovery’s launch. TL;DR, it’s CBS’ exclusive streaming service which gives you access to a livestream of the network, a nice little library of classic shows and movies, as well as access to original series like Discovery and The Good Fight. The service costs $5.99 a month and comes with limited commercial interruptions, or you can upgrade to a $9.99/month version with zero commercials.

You can sign up for a free trial right here, which will give you access to the service for a week. After a week, the trial kicks over into the monthly plan, so make sure you set a reminder to evaluate whether or not you want to stick with the service before it makes the decision for you!

Watch 15 episodes in a week? That’s a tall order!

It’s a tall-ish order. Netflix seasons usually only last 13 episodes, max, so 15 40-minute episodes isn’t exactly the easiest binge. Luckily for you, Discovery’s (totally thrilling and outstanding, BTW) first season can be broken up into a few mini-binges that will make for an eventful week of watching. Here’s how you could break it up across six mini-binges:

1. Episodes 1-3: “The Vulcan Hello” through “Context Is for Kings”
2. Episodes 4-5: “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry and “Choose Your Pain”
3. Episodes 6-7: “Lethe” and “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
4. Episodes 8-9: “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” and “Into the Forest I Go”
5. Episodes 10-13: “Despite Yourself” through “What’s Past Is Prologue”
6. Episodes 14-15: “The War Without, The War Within” and “Will You Take My Hand?”

Because Discovery is packed with insane twists and turns, I’ll justify this viewing method without getting into spoilers. Binge #1 is necessary because, TBH, those three installments make up a feature-length pilot episode. Binge #5 is one massive, multi-part story that will keep you hitting “next!” after a chapter concludes. And Binge #6 is the finale, which will similarly have you on the edge of your seat. Binges #2-4, you can really break those episodes up any way you see fit; they’re mostly standalones, but some of them act like subtle two-parters with subplots carrying over.

I will say this: Discovery is gonna be a super rewarding weeklong binge. That’s because the show both is and is not what you think it is, and it knows that, and it uses that to its narrative advantage at every turn to exciting results. You’re gonna have fun, just go with it.

When will Star Trek: Discovery return? 

That we do not know yet, but we do know it’s coming back for more. There’s reason to believe that since CBS is behind Discovery and the show debuted as part of the network’s fall lineup (complete with a premiere on network TV and everything!), it’s possible Season 2 could debut in late September just like Season 1 did. And Discovery has known a second season was coming for a while, so pre-production is most likely underway. And unlike Netflix shows which shoot everything at once and then drop everything at once, Discovery was still shooting Season 1 well into Season 1’s airing. So yeah, it’s entirely possible filming could begin in late summer, and the show could debut in the fall.

Just do me a favor, okay, and don’t wait until the end of Season 2 to watch Star Trek: Discovery. Trust me. Get your free trial now and experience the thrills before they’re spoiled!

Where to stream Star Trek: Discovery