about Star Trek discovery pilot

About star trek discovery - the pilot (first episode)  - warning, there may be slight spoilers 

Gripes 😠

Despite my huge reluctance, we finally watched the first star trek discovery episode last night. As we thought, it was quite disappointing, especially from Roddenberry, the son, who should know better than to change completely the Klingon look. They seem like a mix of stargate sg1's servants of the Apophis blended with Enterprise's Xindis...they even have sarcophagus like SG1’s, and the Klingons all over a sudden care to keep their dead whereas they always discarded them as shells and didn’t care one bit, except to remove armor parts and weapons to reverse the dead heroes.

There are some better technologies than TOS. Youppi. Hell, they are even better than DS9, with is much later, for example the ship looks a lot more sophisticated and they use hologprahic technology for communication, which barely functions in DS9 which is set 2367-2375. Why, why do we get a better technology 10 years before TOS, so 2256. A whole of 110+ years difference.

Why why do we get tepid prequels ??

I know that pilots tend to be lesser quality than the rest of shows, and I hope this will improve, but there are so many things about it that I hate

I have to rationalize & imagine it's set in a parallel universe, highly based on the reboot series, yet 10 years before (normal) TOS...All the whilst being set 2 years after TOS’s original pilot The cage.

Acting was so flat I could yawn. Never forgot I was watching cast members. All about it was phoned-in, you could feel an over-acting like in the early 1930’s after the change from silent to spoken movies.

The new Sarek is all wrong in look, cannon, and lacks the original's intensity. Doesn't even talk like a real Vulcan in some respects. Why why get old characters when the original actors died?? Just don’t use him, there are plenty Vulcans out there…

Enough with the damn prequels with so many changes that it becomes a non-trek show. Didn't you see the way Enterprise failed?!

What, they had to borrow from other scifi such as Stargate & the fifth element to get to their thing here? the rest of the show better improve, fast, and come up with a magical explanation to the new look and revert them back somehow to more 

human looking Klingons like in TOS- say, they are still messing their genetics, so that's why they are in mutation. You cannot keep such a look for long, seriously. But, from what I hear, the developers came up with a complete fabrication to explain this… some warring houses. Oh yea? I have to many gripes about this, because it simply cannot explain the lizard look, nor the dangerous racial slippery sloap they started.

A droid on board of the ship, to try to imagine a pre-existing bot but it’s also too borrowed from star wars or some like. TOS &Enterprise didn’t have a permanent one on board, so there is no need to try this hard.

After waiting for years to get a new Star Trek show, this is the best they came up with. Yawn yawn & another yawn. 

Neutral 😐 to positive  🙋aspects :

Beautiful graphics and visual effects, although I do wish they weren’t using the spinning cameras and fast zooms as they did, because I had a headache as if I’d watched a 3D movie for 2& half hours!

Opening credits have a tepid music, but nice looking graphics. The music gets the star trek sound only at the end.

More alien diversity, but alien at least 2 races that have never been seen elsewhere in Star Trek timeline. Maybe they get extinct, or the federation cut ties with them later on…

Lead female characters. More balance of female characters on screen, with more lines that many other Trek shows, especially TNG.

Good attempt to stop gender stereotypical associations of personality and actions, which is really positive and I hope this will be a trend of the show.

Overall, I hope the pilot like often is the weakest link and that the show can improve. Hopefully, the acting won’t be so flat later on as characters grow, and we’ll keep gender equality.

In order to continue watching, I have to imagine it’s set in a parallel timeline, highly inspired by the reboot movies, yet different from both reboot and original time lines. It’s too bad this is a prequel and a star trek show, because it could have been a good science-fiction and function as non-trek.

I hope the mental rubber band I’m using to rationalize the show’s changes won’t snap in my brain and make it ooze the dark clouds of hate that I already have for it at the moment…