Star Trek: Discovery – How Much Has It ‘Borrowed’ From Mass Effect?

While much has been made elsewhere of the many flaws in Netflix’s otherwise-enjoyable Star Trek: Discovery, that’s not what’s causing me to double-take like Pepe Le Pew in a cattery. More that, rather than stimulate my Vic Fontaine’s Gyrus (the part of the brain that stores Star Trek trivia), it is instead causing my Frontal Mordin Solus (the part of the brain used for thinking about Mass Effect) to become highly active. I decided to investigate…