Brent Spiner is 70 years old. If Data -- whose relationship with Picard was so essential to who Picard is as a person -- is going to be in this show, he's going to look a bit different than he did when George H.W. Bush was president.
Get over it.
The last time we saw the Borg was in the ENT episode "Regeneration," which aired on 7 May 2003. The last time we saw the Borg in anything other than a one-off was the VOY series finale "Endgame, Part II," which aired on 23 May 2001. A child born the day "Regeneration" aired is old enough to have a driver's license; a child born the day "Endgame, Part II" is a legal adult with the right to vote. An entire generation has passed since the last time we saw the Borg.
And we don't know if this show will actually be about the Borg per se. These stories can be about the impact the Borg have had on other cultures, without being about the Borg themselves.
1) Sonequa Martin-Green's performance as a human caught between Earth and Vulcan is pitch-perfect.
2) I'm up for the changes to her personality after almost twenty years, but the Seven we see in the PIC trailer has mannerisms and speech patterns that are almost entirely different from the Seven of VOY. Her grammar is less prescriptivist, her mannerisms are more overtly emotional, her enunciation is more casual. It's a very different personality than we saw in VOY.
3) Seven on VOY and Burnahm on DIS definitely have similar personality patterns.
Edited to add: It makes perfect sense for Data to have an aging program, because he is endeavoring to be more Human. What you mean is that him having an aging program violates your pre-conceived notions about what an android should be like and that you are unable to accept creative decisions that are logical outcomes of the creative intent behind the character, if those decisions violate your pre-conceived notions. End edit.
Kirsten Beyer is a wonderful novelist whose VOY novels captured the spirit of the show while elevating it to new levels of depth and sophistication.
Michael Chabon is one of the most accomplished writers of his generation. He is the recipient of the 1999 O. Henry Award Third Prize for "Son of the Wolfman," the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (a novel about the early years of the comic book industry, anti-Semitism in the U.S., and the rise of fascism in Europe), the recipient of the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel and 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel, both for The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and is a 2012 inductee to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about and you should look up who these writers are and what their accomplishments are before you pretend you do.
Dude, it's 2019. Look around you. A superhero movie just became the highest-grossing film of all time unadjusted for inflation. Comic book conventions are major cultural events. Star Trek's various shows are some of the highest-rated shows on any streaming service.
We have long, long since passed the point where anyone gives a damn about making Star Trek "cool" as though the world is still divided up into nerds and jocks.
This.
Yes, this is definitely what Strauss Zelnick and Joseph Ianniello, Interim Chair of the Board and President and Acting CEO respectively of a publicly-owned corporation with revenues of over $14.514 billion and total assets of $21.86 billion, with almost 13,000 employees across five divisions and 13 subdivisions, definitely go to bed thinking about: How to punish customers whose money they need for not enjoying a movie made when George W. Bush was president and Ally McBeal was still on the air. You are not being the least bit ridiculous in thinking this.
Edited to add:
When Trek novelists sign on to write such a novel, it's work-for-hire -- they hand over ownership of any characters or concepts from the novel to CBS. Mack was a consultant to the DIS writers and is friends with DIS staff writer Kirsten Beyer, and he's been hired as a consultant on the new Lower Decks show. This is not plagiarism and he has not indicated any problem with their use of the Control concept.
My only thought is: Who the fuck is Robert Meyer Burnett and why should his inaccurate understanding the situation matter to anyone?