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.
Yes, Remans. That’s what this weird-ass Klingon redesign looks like.
I missed a number of Enterprise episodes. Conversely, I’ve seen TOS about a dozen times each, TNG & DS9 just about once, although I rewatched a modest amount of TNG in the last year or so on BBC America to see if they held up. I never was that big into the post-Kirk crews, and rather wished they had done that late ‘70s series as originally planned. Alas, with Nimoy refusing to participate in it, it would’ve been disappointing and probably would’ve only run for a year or two, a la Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers.
I seem to vaguely recall the “virus” claim for Klingons. With my theory, I figure the Arne Darvin incident forced the Federation to thoroughly investigate its employees to find any hybrid infiltrators (since Darvin would’ve been one of many placed in sensitive positions). Once the proverbial “jig” was up, and the profound embarrassment to the Klingon Empire for undertaking said failure, most of the hybrids that were active along the Federation border sought to “restore” their Klingon-ness by undergoing surgical and DNA modification (why the elderly Kor, Koloth and Kang had changed their appearances).
An alternative Star Trek series from the ‘80s postulated there were three racial categories of Klingons: One were the humanoid hybrids, the second were the “standard” Klingons not genetically manipulated, and the third (lesser known) were another genetic design, the “Battle Klingons” which would be dispatched to the most dangerous areas, as they were “disposable.” They were designed entirely for warfare, a Kamikaze class. They resembled standard Klingons physically, but were much stronger, but lacking in intelligence beyond strictly following orders. The “Battle Klingons” were the ones seen in the early scenes of The Motion Picture, dispatched with orders to destroy V’Ger.