Nona certainly kept me glued to the screen.
Are the new Klingons supposed to be White Republicans?
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How? How could a clean slate lose a potential audience?
You know if the Klingons aren't the Russians anymore who will be the Russians and represent Putin and his influence on Trump. He has helped give Trump power just as much as the alt right. I hope they work that into the metaphor. How does one also make a statement on "Fake News" and the internet in Trek.
Jason
Jason
Tribbles.
It's not a clean slate though. It's a setting in far future with history from TNG era forward. Even if DSC doesn't match the exact look or tone of TOS, it is set in a time frame than even casual audiences know and have a reference point to-Kirk and Spock.
In my opinion, instead of going for the 25th century, just go for a reboot.
Yes, there IS that and I wish they had gone in that direction.
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It would be a clean slate involving mostly an untold timeline. Yes there have been references and touched upon moments beyond TNG, DS9 and Voyager but nothing like the backed up history between Enterprise and TOS. A casual audience adapted to every forward based edition to the franchise before, they embraced it with each of the aforementioned Trek series from TNG to Voy lasting seven seasons each.
It might be in the future. Perhaps it's all a holodeck recreation of of the past being played on some holodeck.
Jason
I'm not opposed to the presentation of Discovery, canonically speaking, but I find it hard to believe that several minutes of straight Klingon at the beginning of a new series was going to draw in casual viewers to begin with.
Versus GoT?
I disagree. The history is not as complex as at first glance. There are plenty of assumptions, based upon a wide variety of materials (Books, RPGs, etc) but it is not as explored as one might think.
It is also familiar enough to have that nostalgic draw as well as building upon something new, both as a streaming platform and visually.
Versus GoT?
Did GoT begin with several minutes of a Halloween-masked actor staring into a camera reciting gibberish through dentures that create a speech impediment?
I forgot that.
My wife, who is arguably a bigger Trek fan than I, got up and left the room after about a minute of T'Mushmouth's opening bit. I can only imagine the bewilderment of a newbie.
@Mad Jack Wolfe: "T'Mushmouth"... 
Earth-Two and the Multiverse were created in the 1960s. Prior to that, they were all just Superman stories. Even today there's no concenses on where the "Earth-Two" Superman ends and the Earth-One Superman begins. The majority of Golden Age stories feature the Daily Planet, does that mean they happened to the Earth-One Superman???
The people behind Discovery and the people behind Superman in the 40's, 50's and 60's are and were doing the former.
There is never a "clean slate". All of the 24th Century shows leaned heavily on TOS and each other.