Star Trek: Discovery wrapped up its first season last week, bringing a few plot threads to a close while giving fans a tease of what they can expect going forward.

You may have been watching every episode as soon as they released them, or maybe the whole thing has passed you by, but just how big is the revived Star Trek on the small screen?

Huge, according to industry analysts Parrot Analytics. Through tracking online streams both legal and illegal, and social media chatter, the sci-fi franchise notched up over 53 million 'Demand Expressions' near the end of January:

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What that means is, in terms of both people watching and online hype, Discovery is trouncing everything else, including traditional TV heavy hitters like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Stranger Things.

The second half of season one delivered plenty of twists during the crew's trip to the Mirror Universe, but the showrunners are adamant they won't be repeating themselves in the second run.

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"The Mirror Universe was perfect for season one," showrunner Gretchen J Berg told ET recently.

"In order to return to Mirror, we would have to have a really good reason to go, better than the reason that we went this year.

"What we've learned on Star Trek is never say never about anything, but for now, I'm really proud of the story we told in Mirror, and we're going to let people sit with those for a while and maybe we'll be going back again in the future."

While we don't know too much about what season two will contain just yet, we do know that one character whose journey you might thought was finished is definitely going to be making a return.

Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS in the US and Netflix in the UK.

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