I'm not saying one has to even agree with decisions made but people need to stop thinking there is some malice involved or that they hate certain fans.
Malice isn't the right word. Ambivalence is. To JJ and Bryan Fuller, the designs of Star Trek weren't dear, and they both tried to remake the franchise in a very Marvel vein, to tap into particular demographics. That's not malicious, and it makes perfect sense from a commercial sense. But please don't try to justify it as someone's artistic vision for the future of the franchise.
Not everything needs to have some detailed explanation on screen. We seem to accept different artistic visions when it comes to many other things. Yet for Star Trek they can't dare change things without there being some detailed in-universe reason!?
Not at all. When the K't'inga shows up in TMP, it looks different from the D7 in TOS, but I don't think that needs explanation. It looks better than the D7 in TOS. I have no problem imagining that it
is a D7, that that's how it always looked. That's not the same as having Klingons that look nothing like any Klingons we've ever seen before. And Klingon ships that look nothing like what we've seen before. And uniforms that look like nothing we've seen before. And holographic projections that are like nothing we've seen before (in the era). And mysterious telepathic powers for Vulcans that we've never seen before that don't make any sense with respect to many stories we've seen before that would've been useful. And a magical spore drive that we've never heard about again, even if it does eventually get destroyed. These are not artistic changes. These are hardcore reboots. Reboots, by definition, are about erasing what's come before and putting your own bible in place. Why can't people who like that stuff that came before be legitimately upset about that? On a Star Trek forum. God forbid.
I do think that D7 issue in Discovery was a mistake. One I wish they would fix because that seems to be an isolated incident as well. Mistakes do happen too.
It was probably just a mistake. I'm not too bothered by it. Thee are so many other mistakes, though, that in aggregate it makes it a show that many of us are saddened by. Yes, we can fuck off and not watch it. But that's a little bit like telling people, "Hey! You hate Trump? Then go live somewhere else." Not very constructive. If you hate Trump, you should stay, and work to vote him out of office. If you think Discovery isn't good storytelling, and is pointlessly revising everything in-universe just for the sake of change and no other good reason, then speak out. And we did speak out, and I think they heard us, which is why S2 of Discovery tries so hard to undo those many changes (which Discovery apologists nonetheless continue to defend), and why S3 of Discovery seems to be set so far in the future (which is where so many fans back in the day wished th next iteration of Trek
would be set). And I also think it was a big catalyst behind Picard.
