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[Nate the Great]

I was just thinking the other day that Discovery had three strikes against it right from the start: Spock having an adopted sister, that dumb spore drive, and the complete disrespect for what Klingons are supposed to look like. And when a show has three strikes against it before it even airs, why am I supposed to care about it?


It infuriates me how many shows these days seem to think that they can abandon the formula to get a new wider (and more profitable) audience that will render the old audience irrelevant. It has never and will never work. Look at King's Quest Mask of Eternity, or the Star Wars sequel trilogy, or the Willow show.



As a meaningless aside, I was pondering where Enterprise went right and wrong, and the following simple solution occurred to me: have the Tellarites be the obstructing self-righteous aliens. We know next to nothing about them besides the fact that they have quick tempers and are very insecure. Suppose it was the Tellarites that suppressed humanity because unlike the Vulcans they could see humanity's potential. Now both races could evolve along with the Andorians into accepting humanity as an equal and necessary player in galactic politics. Now there would be a Tellarite in the cast along with T'Pol and there would be much more intrigue and potential conflict. Archer could prove himself to both in different ways. Fans of the prior shows could see Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway in Archer at different times in different situations.