Three new actors announced as well as some plot details

[The Overlord]

I would argue that it fit 100% of TOS.
And yes, after they encountered new cultures they of course were about the respective's culture's politics or war sometimes. I have absolutely zero problem with that. I just want the primary focus of the show be exploring new stuff. I don't want a Star Trek-meets-GOT where different characters are on different ships plotting alliances and the great big war of their time...aka the Dominion war with klingons this time.

Okay, but the episodic planet of the week type exploring we saw from Star Trek in the past has become old and stale and won't fit in with an ongoing story, which this show will have. Who cares about a new planet we will never see past it's first appearance?

The exploration has to be more complex, compelling and indepth then in the past shows. Combine the 2 stories, Discovery is exploring, but the Klingons are rival explorers who want to gain new resources and territory to gain an advantage over the Federation. In the exploration age various European powers competed with each other, why wouldn't the same thing happen in space?

 

[Rahul]

Olay, but the episodic planet of the week type exploring we saw from Star Trek in the past has become old and stale and won't fit in with an ongoing story.

I think it's hard for "exploring new stuff" to become "old and stale". And there's no inherit problem with the "planet of the week"-stuff. The problem is that in the last series the have become very same-y and repetitive. "Planet of the hats" as a much larger problem comes to mind.

Exploring new stuff every week is not the problem, it's the essence of Star Trek. All else - battles, klingons, romance - is the icing on the cake. But never get rid of what makes Trek unique!

Who cares about a new planet we will never see past it's first appearance?

This on the other hand is a very valid critizism. One thing I seriously liked about ENT's Xindi-arc was that stand-alone episodes still fit into a larger ard (same for the first dominion war arc on DS9). And I'm absolutely for revisiting planets and ongoing continuity!

But if they make to Trek what Disney does to Star Wars - only retreating old ground, never adding anything new, just TIE-fighters fighting X-wings and Stormtroopers until all eternity - in Trek example ounly delivering on fan service, klinons, vulcans and'stuff we know about' - I'm out.

The exploration has to be more complex, compelling and indepth then in the past shows. Combine the 2 stories, Discovery is exploring, but the Klingons are rival explorers who want to gain new resources and territory to gain an advantage over the Federation. In the exploration age various European powers competed with each other, why wouldn't the same thing happen in space?

Mixing the explorations of the week with larger story-arcs is something I'm absolutely in favour for, and seriously hope that's their plan.