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I agree with Worf.

 

I go to red alert when I read phrases like "its own unique vision of Trek."

 

Totally understandable in the post-Abrams era, but to play devil's advocate: Consider how radical some of the previous incarnations of Trek which we now know and love must have initially seemed.

In TNG, they put a Klingon on the bridge, and for no obvious reason, he looked nothing like TOS Klingons. They even did a Season 1 episode in which he encounters old-timey Klingons and has to explain to them how much Klingon culture has changed over the past century.

In DS9, they worked in a religious arc with an ending that probably had Gene rolling over in his grave. At first, it looked like they were simply pointing out that a highly-evolved species like the Wormhole Aliens would appear god-like to more primitive species such as the Bajorans... but the discoveries that Sisko makes about them in Season 7 and Dukat's development into an anti-Christ figure are pretty clearly religious symbolism.

I'm choosing to remain (cautiously) optimistic.

 

Space channel in Canada put up the Star Trek Discovery trailer but WITHOUT the pop song instead traditional orchestral Trek music (which fits much better). And also a Space-branded Star Trek Discovery logo at the end.

 

But the Klingons had their new look with forehead ridges since TMP which came out in 1979, eight years prior to the premiere of TNG's pilot episode. They also appeared with ridges in SFS and TVH, so that look was nothing new to the fans once TNG aired. What was new was that there was a Klingon as an officer on the Enterprise.

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For my part I deeply dislike DS9 season 7's religious arc. Before the end of season 6 the Prophets were just aloof aliens and the Bajoran religion was mostly wrong about them. In season 7 not only were those things reversed, the Bajoran faith was made much more like real-world Abrahamic religions particularly Christianity. The pah-wraiths weren't even mentioned until season 6 and they played a big part in the series end. We didn't need evil anti-Prophets and we certainly didn't need Dukat as an anti-Emissary. Bleh.

 

If someone just says the word "Augment Virus" in relation to the new look of the Discovery era Klingons, or maybe they're a different sect or something, I'll give it a pass. It would only irk me if it's not mentioned. It took decades to explain the difference between the TOS Klingons and the TMP/TNG look, I certainly won't stand waiting that long this time!

Fuller knows his Trek and he pushed for the New Look Klingons so I'm assuming they baked a reason for the difference in appearance somewhere.

Also I'm assuming due to Burnham's actions with the Klingons in the pilot (I'd wager she screws up somehow) that leads to the creation of the Neutral Zone.

 

It didn't need an in-universe explanation and I would be glad if Discovery ignored it.

 

I'm too nerd OCD to let it slide and, to be fair, Star Trek in general explains stuff a lot.

 

It's just the evolution of makeup over literally decades.

 

I do not dispute that point, I just know I'm going to have several stress strokes per episode trying to mentally wrangle the entire series into TOS continuity.

Speaking of which, here's a Trekmovie editorial on "Why Spock had a sister that we never knew about" which, once again boils down to, "Spock be tight lipped." Oddly, I do fully buy that. Guy wasn't that warm!

http://trekmovie.com/2017/07/31/edi...tar-trek-discovery-is-not-that-big-of-a-deal/

 

Oh right. It was still much later in the series after the Prophets and the religion were long established.

 

If I remember correctly, the trailer for the series, and then the Pilot strongly suggested the main, overriding plot was going to be hunting down the orbs, even mentioning there were 9. How many did they end up with?

 

Last count I'm fairly sure I heard distinctly on the air was that at least 6 orbs had been recovered.

 

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I fill fight you.

 

It would have worked as an end credits theme for a TNG film, after playing the television version of the end credits theme from TMP.

 

This article does clarify the Klingon look, a bit from an actor, so the TNG look may still be in there. I would totally be okay if we saw TOS / TNG / DSC Klingons all battling and bickering with each other

http://trekmovie.com/2017/08/02/stl...r-trek-discovery-first-image-of-kol-revealed/
Different houses – different Klingons

Mitchell got more specific about differences between the Klingon houses during the Q&A. A fan said he felt the Klingons on Discovery look too different from previous iterations and asked for reassurance that “we are not losing the Klingons we know and love.” Mitchell explained we have only seen some of the Klingons from Discovery:

The images that you have seen so far are one house led by T’Kumva. Today you just saw the first image of [Kol]. So even in the wardrobe it is starting to venture to the more traditional Klingons. More leather and a different set of armor. And the series itself is going to explore 24 different houses and the leaders among them. And you will find different complexities and different ideologies amongst those houses. And so what you have seen already in these images is mostly just from one house. You are going to start to explore further into the Klingons, and each of those houses has a different set of physical looks and variations as well as ideologies.​

Also:

"God" exclamation is back in Star Trek Discovery! that sure was quick! Or just the reporter kind of having a hook to start the EW story where it originated from (which, to be fair, is a great way to open the article)

http://trekmovie.com/2017/08/03/tur...ry-jason-isaacs-is-looking-for-a-catchphrase/

The episode’s writer, Kirsten Beyer, approaches to give a correction on his “for God’s sakes” ad lib.
“Wait, I can’t say ‘God’?” Isaacs asks, amused. “I thought I could say ‘God’ or ‘damn’ but not ‘goddamn.’ ”

Beyer explains that Star Trek is creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a science-driven 23rd-century future where religion basically no longer exists.

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[Berg] confirmed the word “God” is, in fact, allowed on Star Trek: Discovery for religious and exclamation purposes.
“In our room, it’s something we discuss a lot,” Berg said. “I don’t necessarily agree with [Isaacs’] quote. On a show about diversity and with different points of view, I feel like you have to accept that some people believe in God, some people want to worship a potato, and some people don’t want to believe in anything. I think there is room for that on Star Trek.”

In fact, she’s pretty sure it’s already been said in the new Trek show: “I think it’s actually been in this series quite a bit. They are allowed to say it [God]. God fits in the patchwork in everything that is represented by Star Trek.”

 

Wait.

Didn't the original Enterprise have an actual chapel on-board?