Bryan Fuller posted this on Instagram as a birthday greeting to Laurence Fishburne, back on July 30.

So apparently Fuller had intended to carry over the Hannibal cast into Discovery in various parts — and this was how he’d imagined Fishburne in Klingon prosthetics. It also suggests that the much maligned Disco Klingon designs were decided upon after Fuller left as (preliminary) show runner.

ETA: Here is a rundown of the casting plans he had in mind, originally revealed on the D-con chamber podcast. I would have watched Gillian Anderson as a starship captain.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    11 days ago

    with the backpedal

    My only problem with this is that backpedaling is arguably what they did with

    went to lengths to work an explanation into the lore

    One of them you liked, and one you didn’t. And that’s fine.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      I mean, one was a storyline and the other is handwaving.

      Personally, as a fan of things, I like it when more.

      • ValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteMEnglish
        31·
        11 days ago

        This is getting far into the subjective weeds, but I’d much prefer if the ENT producers hadn’t bothered.

        While it does technically qualify as a story, I wouldn’t call it a particularly good one.

        I won’t try to convince you otherwise though; I’m glad it has its fans.

        • SiliconAvatar@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          I sat down and rewatched “Affliction”/" Divergence" last night after this whole discussion. It is very much a not good storyline, and one that hadn’t needed two episodes if not for some poorly motivated character shifts with Trip and Malcolm.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Enterprise was 20 years after TNG changed the Klingons to a new design… How is that a backpedal?

      They worked hard to weave the change into the lore with a well thought-out storyline.

      In Disco they backpedaled in the second series by slapping on big (almost comically lustrous) wigs in season 2 and said ‘oh the hair? Yeah we shave it during war’… Nevermind the fact that they’ve had long hair during wartime for the preceding 60 years of ST lore.

      I don’t think I’m being inconsistent or unfair at all, these are two very different approaches that paint a very different picture of motives. One was to tie up a loose end in the lore that the writers wanted to remedy in a satisfying way for the lore - the other is a 10 minute fix that just adds more lore issues.