Looks new to me. If I had to guess it's whoever picked up Badgey making their move.
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You know, as a big FF8 booster, this makes me reconsider some stuff.
Wouldn't prime!Chekov be like 12 around this time frame?
He may prefer to-- he is himself legally blind, and completely blind in one eye.
Star Trek had a long history of taking cues from capital-T Theater, so a musical was kind of a logical extension of that.
And the DIS s1 klingons look broadly like the TNG klingons, just exaggerated.
James Bond, for instance, is a different person from each actor to have played him
That's not canonical, merely a popular theory.
The idea of being able to essentially species change a Klingon into a Human with TOS-era Klingon medical tech sounds impossibly advanced for what the Klingons are known for.
It's also something that literally happened in a TOS episode that almost everyone saw and liked.
Personally I'm glad those transphobic fucks aren't allowed anywhere near Star Trek.
Then as someone who does know a lot about this stuff I can tell you that you are making a lot of assumptions that are not the case.
It's one thing to do as a one-off gag or a nostalgia bit. It would not have been possible to take seriously for an ongoing series in 2017, except for hardcore fans that don't need to be sold on it.
...Moopsy!...