Kind of feel sad about it, poor Klingons.
Fans can be the worst fans.
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I have to say though, it does seem a bit... err... well... retreading a well trod path? I mean, seriously? Half vulcan XO with daddy issues? Come on, that's kinda been done to death no?
I'm getting less and less impressed the more I think about this.
I'm sorry but as a fan of Star Trek from back when TOS was first aired, this leaves me cold. They stage this in a time period things should be comfortingly familiar to those who have grown up with Star Trek, but they remove everything that would make it so? (No, that wasn't a pun.) I can see why CBS/Paramount landed so hard on "Axanar" now; it would have eviscerated this thing.
There's a problem with people who want to "make their mark" while playing with a much beloved property. They generally fail.
I don't get why they felt they needed to change the Klingons, but I think there is no way to go back to the TOS aesthetics for ... anything. It just looks too dated and it will just be jarring. It doesn't matter that some old school fans get annoyed - the problem is that everyone, old schoolers as well as the new audience, will feel the dated look.
They could avoid that problem probably if they would stop trying to go for prequels or "alternate timeline" and either move the timeline forward, or make a complete reimagination.