So is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?

That was my takeaway - it’s got the power to propel the ship (much) higher into the warp 9.9XXXXX range.

In fairness, they brought him back twice in season two - once as a dancing Klingon, no less.

I think of Trek Central as the “scrappy outsider” of Star Trek new sites, but I do consider them to be a reliable source, and that trademark application is certainly authentic.

We’ll see if anything comes of it.

I was never any good with music theory, but I knew someone would appreciate it.

Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”

Could you expand on that, ideally with pictures of what you’re talking about? L’Rell’s outfit, for example, hardly screams “Africa” to me.

they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent

“Exotic” meaning what? Which race is he mimicking?

voodoo religious rituals

I know very little about the Voodoo religion, so could you please tell me which of its rituals were incorporated into the show?

they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well

And this is a known racist trope about Africans (since you seem to have settled on African, or at least “Black” stereotypes)? Because otherwise, you seem to be saying it’s a racist depiction of…a bunch of different races, based on the fact that the characters do things that humans also do sometimes.

Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones

“Brown”

That would be a question for Bryan Fuller. He’s recently started to talk about this stuff, so maybe we’ll get an answer some day.

One thing I do think someone said along the line is that they wanted to establish why the Klingons and Starfleet hate each other so much in TOS.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.

It’s not in the article, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “official” answer, but…I do think “because we can” is a valid answer. It was valid when they did it with TMP, and it was valid the subsequent times they tweaked the makeup.

In terms of how it served the story being told…I can see the appeal of having more alien-looking, “scarier” Klingons in a season that was ultimately about the dangers of xenophobia.

Wut?

I always kind of liked the Kelvin Klingons.

Well, the makeup, anyway. I don’t care for the costumes at all.

I think the cranium size was the biggest “miss” in the design - I quite liked the season two iteration of the same basic ideas.

There’s absolutely no reason to think any show is being made “instead of” another.

Edit: And as Newsome herself stated, this series has not been greenlit. It may not get made at all.

I don’t think you needed [sic]

Just wanted to make sure - I stumbled over that sentence when reading it!

It’s pretty hard to make the case that we “need” any work of fiction.

At SDCC CBS sent us a synopsis, essentially a workplace comedy on a vacation planet – not Risa, not in the Federation. So are those fundamentals are still the same?

Those fundamentals are the same. But what I can tell you is what we’re really working on exploring, are the sort of overlooked sections of what happens when a world and a culture that is not that was not [sic] in the Federation. What happens when they decide to be?… So Federation outsiders and what’s kind of the nitty gritty involved with joining the Federation and involved with… yeah, I’m really struggling [to avoid spoilers]

That’s an interesting adjustment…

The original promo, in all its glory.

I like the Circle trilogy - the Bajoran government being unstable is a fun element to those early seasons.

It’s a shame Shakaar was such a dud of a character, and the series sort of lost interest in the Bajoran civilian government as the Dominion and Kai Winn started to take up all the oxygen in the series.

Chelsea did an AMA with us back in the Old Place when the book came out. She seemed cool, and fairly knowledgeable about, y’know, cooking.

I’d be curious to hear how the recipes turn out for you.

Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.

They quickly came to realize that that’s too many triticales.

For me, it’s hard to top the Paramount+ ad from a few years ago that gave us this: