TV Series · 2017 · TV Series · 2010s
Star Trek: Discovery
Scored from 3,011 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Set roughly a decade before the original Star Trek, the series follows Commander Michael Burnham aboard the USS Discovery as the Federation is thrust into war with the Klingon Empire. Later seasons jump the crew nearly a thousand years into the future, where they work to rebuild a fractured Federation while confronting new galactic mysteries and threats.
Released in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery is an action, adventure and drama television series.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,890 of whom clear the calibration test. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 3,011 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,246 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Star Trek: Discovery lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2010s (3,236 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 3,011.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
