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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:

I just don’t see how this incarnation ends up anything less than a fiasco. That photo looks like some nightmarish Gothic alien caricature. If they didn’t identify them as Klingons, you wouldn’t know they were. I similarly detested when they started to add Klingon-style bone structure to Vulcans and Romulans’ heads out of the blue back during TNG.

Making the First Officer the protagonist is interesting, they could do some interesting things with that.

But it’s a *major* departure, I don’t know if it will work.

Hopefully a competent First Officer won’t implausibly decline promotions repeatedly ala Riker to maintain the status quo on the show. So maybe she’ll be the Captain by season 3 or something, if the show lasts.

Since I already have CBS All Access, I’m fine with it being there, glad even, get something for my money. I stopped watching “The Good Wife” halfway through but I watched “The Good Fight” on All Access, good show, benefited from the lack of network TV censorship (you can say F).

But does it make sense to have it there? If there goal is to have max viewers, obviously not, I guess there goal is to entice more people to subscribe. It’s also gonna incite massive piracy of the show.

The Klingons look kinda like the Klingons from “Into Darkness” I guess. They also look kinda look like the “Remans” from “Nemesis”. What they don’t look like is Klingons.

DJ, I don’t know if watched “Enterprise” but they did a strange explanation for the foreheads (rather than go with original plan of “they were always there but TOS didn’t have enough in the budget for makeup), Klingons tried to use Human Auguments (like Kahn) to make super Klingons via a virus, it didn’t go well, virus spread, took away forehead ridges for victims and their descendants.

A botched scheme to make Klingons look more Human to infiltrate would have been better, instead the lack of ridges was only a side effect.