Hot take.

Or maybe not. But my hot take is that leaving all other problems of Discovery constant, and you only correct for one major issue, the show would perform materially better from a fan perspective.

My humble take is that the one major issue to correct for would be to not focus on Michael as the center character but instead, like all Star Trek shows, make it about the crew and philosophical issues dealt by the entire crew. I’m sure many fans may think it’s not enough, but I do think it would have a significant impact.

For example, perhaps the IMDb and rotten tomatoes critic rating goes up to an 8 from a 7 and to a 90% from an 84%, respectively(critics score doesn’t need much help, which is perplexing).

But most importantly, and ironically, the elephant in the room being the 33% fan rating could possibly go up to 50% or more.

Food for thought. I think nothing I’ve said here is groundbreaking. But wanted to start the dialogue from a different angle.