This is a different timeline, obviously. Seriously, they can call it the Prime timeline all they want, but it’s not.

Star Trek has always—save a throwaway line in things like Deep Space Nine’s “Trials and Tribble-ations”—just pretended that the ridge-headed Klingons from TNG are what they’ve always looked like.

I just figured out something else wrong with this picture. Normally, on Earth, it’s predator species that have binocular vision. Prey species have eyes on the sides of their heads, like this rabbit:

Vorta had poor vision and a complete inability to process art.

Cardassians are also worse writers.

Also, if he’s prey, shouldn’t his eyes be on the side of his head (magic death sense or not) like a Krogan?

Didn’t one episode of TNG mention that all the redundancies Klingons evolved to deal with the constant stabbings make them incredibly given to sudden organ problems?

It’s T’Pol. \\//,

You mention Tuvok for Voyager, but I’d say the “Spock” character for that series is arguably Seven of Nine, or even the Doctor.

I always considered the Holodoc the main Voyager crew member that tries to understand being human. And Seven of Nine a few seasons later. I don’t think Tuvok is such a strong example for that specific type of character.

You know, the more I think about it, it’s refreshing to see an a major character being a member of an alien species that isn’t blatantly superior to humans in every way.

They look down on prey species? Is that a thing? Are “prey species” a large enough demographic for there to be prejudice against them? I can only recall two other “prey species” in the whole 50 years of Star Trek canon.

Did you perhaps mean T’Pol, the science officer on Enterprise, not T’Pel, Tuvok’s wife?

his species can “sense the coming of death”

An unrelated prey species, I assume.

Not a bad explanation for a Trek character. After Troi’s empathic abilities, Odo’s ability to increase/decrease his mass at will, and Kes’ precognition, having a main character with a heightened survival instinct is pretty reasonable for this universe.

You know in Kirks era I’d buy that, so ok :)

T’Pol not T’Pel. T’Pel is a different Vulcan.

Spock. Data. Odo. Tuvok. T’Pel.

While it definitely evokes the iconic original, it feels in a lot of ways like the phasers designed for USS Kelvin personnel