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Former Bond Girl Michelle Yeoh is the Captain

The first officer is also a chick, but with a dude’s name (ok ok there’s Michael Steele of the Bangles but weird choice).

One alien crewmember has a face that looks like a butt, at least it’s a new species I guess.

I’m not sure why the hell Spock’s dad needs to be involved and why’s he’s British.

I didn’t know it set before Kirk. I’m still POed how they bungled Enterprise, but the time it got decent, it was too late.

CBS suckered me into a free trial for “All Access” and I never cancelled it so, I’ll watch it.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this is going to suck balls. Even one simple thing, why is the Captain of a ship not Enterprise and the crew wearing an Enterprise insignia set BEFORE TOS ? Every ship had their own special insignia. Two, and this is a big one, there should be no female Captains prior to TOS (except perhaps for early on, which presumably would’ve accounted for why Starfleet banned women Captains due to a higher hazard rate for their serving — to paraphrase James Brown, “This is a man’s universe.”).

Gay stuff shouldn’t be there. The ship looking ludicrously modern also shouldn’t, either. There are ways to accommodate a retro look, and should be pursued. I also believe there was a reaction at the time in the future against everything being “computerified” and a simplification of technology. Of course, there’s also the likely situation in the future that with technology, humanesque robots will be running the show (as mentioned in “Dune”, humans were reduced to atrophying because they were being “served” by the robots, and it led to a great war for humans to reassert themselves and their own “Prime Directive” forbidding robots to be made in the image of humans).

You’re also right about Sarek, he should have no role in this, no British accent (like the bizarre and false casting in Faux Trek), unless they happen to be at Federation HQ on Earth and bump into him serving as Ambassador.

I hear they also changed the Klingons’ appearance AGAIN. Klingons at or near Federation space at the time should resemble what they did in TOS, which was done for a reason, as there was an attempt to infiltrate and undermine the Fed from within using Human/Klingon hybrids (not having enough time or $$ for TOS to give them skull ridges actually enriched the potential backstory and made that “Tribbles” episode become a lot clearer).

The series' central character isn't even the captain this time. It's actually the first officer, supposedly to offer a different perspective on what goes on the ship. But this is pretty dumb, IMO, because the captain is the prime instigator of the action in the first place. By definition, the captain is going to be the more compelling character. That's why Trek fans love to debate who the best captain is. (By contrast, how many people debate Spock versus Riker? Chakotay versus Kira?) The rest of the crew are going to be more reactionary even if they are part of the senior staff.

Putting this on CBS All Access is also strange. Why not stick it on the Sci-Fi Channel and get a bigger audience? Why not go back to first run syndication? I know Viacom owns Paramount and CBS, so synergy is obviously at work, but they're still needlessly narrowing their audience by sticking it on a digital channel.

I think the powers at be in control of the Trek franchise would just as soon forget the no-women captains thing ever existed.

As for the Klingons, they look like the Narns from Babylon 5 if they got a major suntan: