Shoot it in '90s style, set it immediately after TNG/DS9/VOY, come up with technobabble explanations for even the wonkiest stuff (people are forgetting how bad the technobabble got during late-TNG and VOY and what it was used to justify), make the cast 100% straight, and make Burnham either black or a woman but not both, have stories not go on for anything more than a two-or-three-parter, and then watch how their opinions of DSC would change. Most important: Rhys has to have an episode devoted to himself.