Wesley was a helmsman on the bridge crew, who do not report to the CMO. He was never a subordinate of Beverly.

I think the Mariner character is going to be what makes or breaks the show. One episode in and she’s already treading that line of being exhausting. Hell, that’s not true, she is exhausting, but they were able to level that out somewhat by showing that she’s capable at what she does. She’s like if the first season of…

It wasn’t bad .

I’m pretty sure it would be against regulations for a child (especially an adult child who is also an officer) to serve under a parent on a ship.

Columbia Pictures president Sanford Panitch stated the prompt for Venom is to “draw on the work of John Carpenter or David Cronenberg” but with “more pop and fun.”

Found a leaked version- watch before it gets yanked!

Is it just me or do the Klingons look more like the Master from BTVS than they do Klingons?

WTF, is Kinja broken again or did io9 just get hacked?

So there is actually an in cannon reason why Klingons looked like Asin villain stereotypes in TOS and had crazy ridges in STTNG. It has to do with genetic experimentation of one tribe of Klingons. I’m guessing ​this is happening simultaneously with the new ship stuff.

The Klingons... the Klingons. Sigh. I haven’t been this disappointed with such a stupid redesign since the Kilrathi from Wing Commander went from being badass tiger-people in the videogames to these weird gross rat creatures in the film. Easiest thing not to fuck up... and yet, here we are.

I agree with all of this, but there are other elements that really bother me as well. Why is the bridge of a ship so god damn dark? Hell, even the freaking desert they’re walking through is dark! I get that this is the way that lighting has gone... but the fact then that we have bright lights shining everywhere that…

Velour?!

This! So much! Why place a show in the classic timeline if you are going to completely ignore its design philosophy? Also: This looks like super generic contemporary sci-fi design. Star Trek used to be special, distinctive, I don’t see any of that in this trailer...

It’s really a shame the production designers didn’t just take this look and give it a modern polish. It wouldn’t have to be an exact replica, just stay in this general theme.

I thought a little bit of that might actually be a more promising about the discovery front — they talk about investigating things as if it’s their core reason for existence, and there’s some cool spacewalk visuals. I’m hopeful about that part!

These don’t look better or more advanced, they just look BUSIER, which is what most Hollywood production design looks like now.

The trailer shows them encountering weird unknown objects at the edge of Federation space.

My first thought is that they are on Vulcan. Their clothing looks vaguely like Vulcan desert wear, and they have advanced technology right in plain view, so I don’t think they are trying to disguise themselves in a pre-Warp society.

Most importantly, can we talk about the return of production designer Akira Yoshimura? He played Sulu in the original Belushi timeline. That should be a story in itself.