Never saw Discovery because the Klingons we’re changed gratuitously. Sure, they were changed from TOS to The Motion Picture and beyond, but TOS had no budget to do them justice and the vaguely Mongolian villain thing went out of style.
Didn’t try Picard either. Previews looked like a product of the CW Network where the protagonists are impeccably dressed in casual layers and coiffed like they just came from a 3 hour Queer Eye makeover. I also feared the modern dramatic stylings of, “the universe is in danger, but let’s pause to discuss a threat to the characters’ romantic pairings”.
I saw Strange New Worlds ep 1, and it looks promising, even though the bridge banter seems too informal and the previews for future episodes show the Enterprise maneuvering like a fighter.
And the Navigator. She’s obviously a nod to current expectations of diversity, but the shaved side of the head and constant smirk are a bad stereotype.
Two hundred years in the future, people should be weirder. Make a character with a bizarre, but practical look that’s explained later without a reference to the 21st century audience’s cultural fads. These are crewmembers who can remodel themselves with DNA hyposprays and transporter buffers, so token LGBT stereotypes are just lazy writing.
So, in that future maybe it IS easy to be impeccably dressed and coiffed at all times. But the writers should still show why. If Captain Pike’s awakened by a red alert, he can beam to the bridge with an in-flight makeover or he can take the lift with one side of his hair mushed until Yeoman Combover shows up with a can of AquaNet.
Oh, and Spock has no foreplay with T’Pring. He didn’t even do that finger rubbing thing from ST:III. They have interstellar internet and Spock’s apparently never seen Vulcan finger porn.
Maybe my expectations are too high.
