Battle at the Binary Stars

OK. The Klingons want to revive their empire. They have one guy who is set to do this. Starfleet is in their way. The Captain and Number 1 are at odds because neither of them can appreciate the others' gifts. So, of course, No. 1 is put in the brig for mutiny and a bunch of other stuff. There are supernatural elements all over the place as No. 1 is eventually going to arise. The problem is that the usual impressive nature of the crew is lacking. The look terrified every time they receive a jolt of some kind. I guess we know who is who now, so let's get on with it.

If somebody ask you to choose between the most expensive kind of food and your favorite food,what you would choose ?!?..the answer is your favorite food ,of course.The same thing is happening with Discovery,the producers are forcing us to renounce to the look of the our favorite aliens for an expensive version of them,which should be better ,but is not ,but the fans don't care if their aliens are the best or not,all they want is what they really love ,this cyber punk version of a series were the real culture was verry apreciated looks soo lame,and this is the only series where IDIC is seen as something strictly related to sexual preferences and not about science or culture.This is just the newest form of superficiality and it makes me just to leave technology and go for a walk in nature or to go in a gym,and probably is better this way,because almost all trekkies are sedentary persons.

I have watched both episodes and am ready to cast judgement. This is not Star Trek. This reminded me more of Mass Effect. It is focused on action too much, the ship is too sterile, the crew doesn't seem to want to co-operate and the bridge-crew are not what you'd expect. There's one tall alien that's afraid of everything, there's a robot and there's a cyborg. Judging by the previous Star Trek series, cyborgs, are probably not what you'd expect.

The biggest issue is that the klingons are not klingons anymore. The way they pronounce their language (and maybe their language) has changed. Their looks, well, they look more like bald romulans.

It's a shame, Star Trek has a rich lore, a diverse cast of aliens and heck, if they need more aliens, go for it. The problem here is that they just rewrite established lore in an uninteresting way. This is not Star Trek, this is not an evolution, this is just fluff.

If you want an example of what they could've done, watch Prelude to Axanar. It shows what you can do with the lore without deluding it.

I was very impressed with the ship battle scene. They made phasers actually look threatening and intimidating, not just some nerdy laser that goes "PEWWW." Also the depiction of polarizing the hull plating after it's been damaged was very cool. There are few things I found to be flaws though IMO that's more just personal biases. The constant Klingon is getting pretty annoying. The problem is they talk slow. You see a sentence on the bottom. I finished reading. They're still saying the same sentence for like 10 more seconds!

I understand they're trying to be more realistic and more authentic... but then why would they translate "We come in peace" in English? Also these Klingons are also fluent in English it seems. We're able to look past that trope and just accept "Sure they're only speaking English to make it easier for us." From an artistic perspective, what they did was impressive... but it's still annoying to watch especially considering Star Trek is based on dialogue, not action.

Aside from these gripes, I found this to be pretty good episode. I'm really wondering how the story will end up. I seriously did not expect that ending. I had assumed they'd forget the incident and have Michael instated as captain of that ship.

I'm a trekker since i was kid ,but i have hard time to recognise this as being a Star Trek series.This series is targeting only the young (teen and not adult) generation.It seems the older fans are not wanted anymore,probably because the the teenagers are more willing to spend more money on their favorite things than the adults.As an adult i can't say i really want to see more violence or more nude scenes or whatever ,only the teeenagers are yeager about forbidden things.I really wanted this series to be a better version of Enterprise or a post Voyager sequel not a remake .One thing that bothered me very much as a guy who was raised in a comunist country with a regim who manipulated with lies the whole country was reading the lies about the series told by the producers of the show in order to keep the fans quiet,i can recognise a attempt of manipulation like that instantly.They said series is a prequel of the original series like Enterprise placed in the original timeline ,but this is just a REMAKE !!! They said the Klingons are diverse and they are not changing the canon but they have only one kind of so called Klingons and they are redesigning the other species too.They said this series is a visual reboot and the canon will be respected ,but their changes are against the canon,for example Worf has growing hair (i was facinated by that thing) and he is even going the to the ship's hairstylist , sometimes .The new Klingons ,their new ships and their new costumes are a visual pain for a die-hard fan like me ,ther TMP version is 1000 times better ,and even JJ's Kligons had hair (take a good look) with the exception of their leader who seems to have battle scars just like Cristopher Plummer's character.The new (Starfleet ) uniforms should have a darker tone and they should be purple and more scary.The Shenzou looks way more cooler than DSC pizza cutter .The acting is not too great ,for example the new Klingons are speaking like some dumb Ferengi.The action is ok but the story looks like it was improvised on the filming spot with rare exceptions.Anyway,this series will fail to mantain the older fanbase because we have now Lost in Space ,The Orville,a Star Wars live show and a Halo huge tv series in production.You broke my heart with this strange show because all i wanted was too see a regular TNG series ,that is all.I wish you a long and prospere existence and good luck with your new fans,because i'm not consider myself a Trekkie anymore.Post scriptum : The series has too little science parts and too many fantasy just like Star Wars.