What would you change about this series?

[Longinus]

So is this thread for constructive wishes for realistic things to change on the show as it is right now or just another opportunity for people to air grievances about what they wished the show would have been in the first place?

Fair point. My revised list:

1) Get fast to the point when it inevitably turns out the sporedrive does not work. Do not introduce new clearly era inappropriate tech.

2) Dial back the darkness a notch, both metaphorically and literally. More exploration and diplomacy, less war.

3) As the timeline moves on, add a tad more visual continuity, TOS inspired uniforms and set colour schemes, round engines for fed ships, Klingon ships that fit the design lineage. As we meet new Klingon characters, give some of them hair so we can see that not all of them are bald.

4) Umm... Bring back Georgiou? Somehow which is not terribly stupid...

 

[Longinus]

Give the Klingons humanoid ears.

It's funny how the lack of earlobes bothers me much less than the lack of hair, even though physiologically it obviously is a much bigger change. It's just that the lack of hair alters their overall look much more. After all, we rarely saw Klingon ears, as they often had long hair!

 

[Paul Weaver]

Clearly the klingons we saw with ears were Klingon/Ferengi offspring

 

[Refuge]

Seriously, provide at least one character with a sense of integrity and give the viewer a moral compass. I understand life forms/characterisations develop, but people do exist in current times with morals defined and behaviour that they use to uphold their principles. Take a cross-section of the population and you won't find we are all the same. Some are less mature, some are angry, some are blithely optimistic, some are walking the walk as good people. There are too many flawed, miserable, characters on Discovery that a sense of faith in Federation values seem a long way off. When some viewers complain Discovery is not Star Trek they're not necessarily bitter that it isn't mustard tunics and alien of the week. Star Trek seeks out life, diversely, seeks out exploration, seeks out common ground. It does offer hope and it tries to reject exploitation.

Agree about the Klingons. Time to incorporate the universal translator and let the audience off the hook. The visuals are murky enough without subtitles.

 

[Paradise City]

I'd dial back the technology. The Burnham Spock/Sarek angle is too contrived to be really my thing. So I'd get rid of that as well. I'd also get them to rehearse the premier a good bit more.

 

[Long Syntax]

I kinda dislike saying this, but I think id rather it set after ds9 / vgr. I think the writers would have an easier time putting a compelling story together, rather than trying to flesh out an obscure event referred to in TOS - just so a small percentage of uber geeks might - MIGHT - find it cool. [/rant]

I'm still gonna watch though

 

[Mudd]

Loss of Discovery with all hands?

Except Ripper, I mean. And jeez, has Tony Head put on the pounds or what?

 

[Uhura's Song]

Two main things:

1) Have people act in a more believable manner. Landry's death was so stupid. What security officer lets that thing loose on the ship w/out checking first? Not to mention her own safety.

Leaving the Shenzou & T'Kumva's ship in space for 6 months? I guess that cloaking device is not important to anyone. Yet they go back for the telescope? Really? Scuttle the Glenn but not the Shenzou?

Lots of good stuff, but some of the plot holes need tightened up. On a minor note, type O stars are blue, not yellow/red, I believe.

2. Also, might want to ditch the subtitles when it is just Klingons.

 

[Longinus]

2. Also, might want to ditch the subtitles when it is just Klingons.

I think it would make it really difficult to follow for most people.

 

[Prax]

The writing? Is that specific enough?

 

[Canjo]

There's a lot of unnecessary canon violation in the tech that makes it hard to suspend disbelief that this is happening in the same universe as the rest of Trek. It would be trivially easy to fix with no loss of quality in the show.

Like the holo-mirror in Ep 4. It could have been a regular mirror, but they decided to introduce hologram technology 10 years before TOS, and for what? Because it looked kind of cool for a few seconds?

 

[Prax]

I was annoyed with the Klingons redesign when I first saw the leaked photo, but after seeing the series, the "canon" stuff seems so minuscule now. It's not even on the radar for me. A lot of the designs I like. Yes, the holographic mirrors, and semiholographic Skyping(like when the scientist called his scientist buddy on the other ship) is superfluous, even gaudy, but the dialogue, characterizations, and bizzare internal logic(as in story logic) are what truly leave me in various states of bewilderment. In most films and shows, I'm usually far too dense to pick up on "plot holes," but now I feel like an expert.

 

[Tesophius]

I would want a completely different show, close to an opposite, except for production values, which are great.

Realistically though:
- Wrap up the klingon war early, with some ambiguous / uneasy truce. The tension would still be there as a backdrop, but the show could focus on more interesting phenomenon / civilization of the week. Perhaps these could be two-episode long each, giving us a chance to explore each civilization/phenomenon in greater detail than we have before.
- Fill each scene with more substance. Lots of scenes are dragging, too much emotional dialogue that could be avoided.
- More crew unity. I want to see shipmates acting together and discussing scientific and technological dilemmas. That has always been one of my favorite aspects of Star Trek. Numerous scientists have been inspired by the so called technobabble (usually used by people who haven't read a single book on the science odf Trek)
- Add a vulcan character. We're missing a "strictly logical" presence on the Discovery. I guess that was supposed to be Michael, but she's anything but logical/Vulcan.
- Brighter lights and more upbeat or dramatic/epic background scores.

 

[Prax]

We're missing a "strictly logical" presence on the Discovery.

They're there. They just aren't allowed to speak. The director says to everyone on the bridge "ok, you, you, you, you, and you, look worried... Ok...a little more worried,...that's it...goooooood." and then a little later, the director says "Okay guys, now look happy...more happy...No, No...happier! Alright. Stand up and pat each other on the back. No, everyone. Everyone stand up and pat each other on the back! You, there, with the robot face, what's your name?"

"Uhhhh...(muffled voice)..I wasn't given one"

"Never mind, sit back down. Find someones back to pat..actually, just nod your head.


Cut!! That's a wrap, folks! Great job everyone. See you all tomorrow."

 

[Phily B]

Less Klingonese.

 

[Mechanoid1]

I hope the writers make up their minds. Either write a show about star trek before Kirk, and tone down the high tech that is more advanced than what Janeway has 200 years in the future. Or write a show about adventures in the 25th century with high tech zoom-shroom drive.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Daleks.

 

[starmike]

Nothing

 

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

Honestly, lose the Klingons and accept that everyone speaks English, all the time.

 

[SJA]

Better opening scenes! More crew 'bonding' and sense of teamwork...Some sense of the scale of the war...Everyone keeps saying Starfleet is losing but I'll be damned if that's come across on screen! Enjoying it so far despite some reservations...