Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 pitch meeting

[Shermann]

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We're going to feature the Klingons quite a bit, but they are going to look differently because reasons. So what...the TOS Klingons looked like Afghans!

We need a new take on the conflicted Vulcan officer, so we are going to go with a human who was raised as a Vulcan this go-round. That hasn't been done before. This officer will start a war with the Klingons even though the captain said not to. Spock disobeyed an order once, so it's basically like that.

There is this spore drive. So, you take these spores and...umm...connect up a computer to...umm...an alien and, well, you transport anywhere instantly. This is more advanced than anything that came later in TOS or TNG. We have time loop devices so we can square that up later. The alien is an ultraviolent mass-murderer unless you feed it, so like a reverse Gremlin.

We're going to have these cool Pahvan aliens who are just puffs of smoke. They built this really rickety antenna. Discovery's engineer has no idea what it is for but has concluded it can be used to decloak the Klingon vessels. Despite being easily detectable and destroyable, it can be a gamechanger in the war. Starfleet laptops connect right to it (it is probably a standard USB connection).