Easy - you put an infamously petty and tight-fisted producer on it who’s making this thing out of a grudge against his corporate nemesis than a desire to make a good show.
ALRIGHT!
YES TO GIMMICK ACCOUNTS
This is what they seemed to be doing in a cut scene from the 2009 Star Trek:
There’s a big difference between a fuzzy, low-bandwidth hologram that’s actually just the image of a real person, and the “holograms” from the later shows that are fully corporeal, and sometimes capable of independent thought.
AAHHH WE’RE COMMENTING IN REAL TIME ON A TREK SHOW I AM SO HAPPY. Ok, now let me read the review.
I don’t think the Albino from Blood Oath was a Klingon.
Actually, Worf’s grandfather, whose name is ALSO Worf, and who was ALSO played by Michael Dorn, and would (in the original timeline) eventually become Kirk’s defense lawyer in The Undiscovered Country.
We can’t help it. It’s in our nature. :)
The Klingons are all wearing full-face prosthetics
Hey, while you’re missing one of the main points of a franchise, do you want to say some racist or homophobic shit while claiming to be a X-Men fan also?
So far I am disappointed, but I will likely keep watching. I made it through all episodes of TNG so it should be easy enough to make it to the point where DSC is as good as “when DS9 gets the ship” or “the third season of TNG onward”.
I only saw the first episode (or first part of the two-hour pilot, if you prefer) because that’s all they showed on regular ol’ CBS (kinda wish I’d noticed that tiny little “1 and 2" way up at the top of the article before I stumbled across some stuff I didn’t know yet, but I only really learned one thing I hadn’t…
I feel like the first clue that Georgiou wasn’t long for this world was that the show isn’t called Star Trek: Shenzou.
Random ‘pinions:
I would argue you haven’t actually seen the first episode of Discovery. You’ve seen half of it. Having seen episode 2 (which this review also covered), I can say that this was a classic “two hour series premier movie” and NOT two discreet episodes. They should have put both on TV and gone from there. The ending of…
DS9 is great. Don’t deprive yourself.
Godspeed, John Slade. You taught me that every good hero has some theme music.
Your positivity confuses and frightens me, but thank you!