Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07 - "What Is Starfleet?"

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If he hadn't been the only new character, would the audience all have picked him as the one who would die?

 

[Leo Walsh]

If he hadn't been the only new character, would the audience all have picked him as the one who would die?

If he'd been a Tellarite, what then?

 

[The Salt Umpire]

And all of this diminishes the impact of the story if most of the characters are 'safe' and forces life impacting events onto Una or La'An or someone else since TUS have to (mostly) adhere to TOS canon.

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

And all of this diminishes the impact of the story if most of the characters are 'safe' and forces life impacting events onto Una or La'An or someone else since TUS have to (mostly) adhere to TOS canon.

If the writers/actors/directors do their jobs right then we are willing to suspend disbelief and even the star of the show might not survive.

 

[fireproof78]

If the writers/actors/directors do their jobs right then we are willing to suspend disbelief and even the star of the show might not survive.

This.

The story is the hook. Historical films do this all the time.

 

[Leo Walsh]

And all of this diminishes the impact of the story if most of the characters are 'safe' and forces life impacting events onto Una or La'An or someone else since TUS have to (mostly) adhere to TOS canon.

No.