Jester David
Hero
From Space as the CBS version is region locked to the US:
[video=youtube_share;o_xhb-mGU2w]https://youtu.be/o_xhb-mGU2w[/video]
[video=youtube_share;o_xhb-mGU2w]https://youtu.be/o_xhb-mGU2w[/video]
Looks interesting to me. And I see no reason to have the ship look like ToS at all. We know a lot more about computers amount other things.
But, really, the design of the Klingons just bugs me the most...
Those look like any of a dozen generic, uninspired, and boring bumpy headed aliens from Voyager. Generic evil warrior aliens.
Where the hell is their hair?! Their beards?
And the overdesigned uniforms/ armour. Ugh. It would have been soooo easy to just look at the original Klingon uniforms and change some fabric, add some texture/ armour and make it look good. Or just use the designs of Klingons from any of the classic movies - all of which still hold up very well.
Yes, they look very much like a random alien race suffering from the "throw some rubber genitalia in their heads" Next Generation school of thought. They spend decades building an iconic appearance and culture for the Klingons and then throw the whole thing in the nearest dunny. With a series set in this time period I would hope to see something like the "Imperial Klingon" stock get hit with that virus that they don't talk about or, my preference, the hybridization with a more human looking humanoid race, as was described in the old Star Trek RPG to explain why they look like they do in TOS.