*grins* easy. CBS has a free stream of 2-1 on their youtube channel, so we sat down and watched it. it hit me the same way that 1-1 did last year.
Discovery is a kitbash set in the novelverse!
all through disco is bits and pieces of TOS, TMP, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and JJR combined with Diane Duane, Diane Carey, Vonda Macintyre, Peter David and even nods to D.C. Fontana her own self.
spotted exaples
little Spock's "face your fears" drawing is of the Silicon-based life form that shares Vulcan with the Vulcan's that Diane Duane wrote into the Rihannsu quadrology and "Spock's World"
Pike having a female chief Engineer
Disco's alert graphics are the early TMP ones dyed yellow
the character interactions are pure Peter David
the non rubber-forehead species like Saru are pure Diane Duane.
the plotlines are ALSO pure Peter David with touches of Vonda Macintyre
etc.
this is WHY this show throws most modern Trekkies and quite a few older Trekkies off. it's bits and pieces of the comic and novel authors combined with screen canon from both the little screen and the silver screen. Trek has back catalogs of writing material going back to the trope-making conventions of the 70's. and I bet most of you modern people have never sat down and read an old trek novelization!
the James Blish writeups of TOS eps and the "star trek logs" novelizations of the TAS eps by a high-end sci-fi author are worth it.
