>One thing I will say is that the Disco-era uniforms are dull,
>dull, dull. That Space Janitor Jumpsuit look kinda worked for
>Enterprise because of the period they were shooting for, but
>Discovery is set, what, 10 years before TOS? It feels like
>they ought to be sporting something that looks a little more like the
>uniforms from "The Cage", not "slightly more elaborate blue jumpsuits
>with fancy boots".

The TOS-era uniforms show up on the USS Enterprise in season two, but the explanation for the difference comes from the first novel which says those uniforms are exclusive to the Constitution-class ships.

>The tech looks cool, though, I'll give it that. I particularly like
>the communicators, which are very consciously the Motorola Brickphone
>to the TOS era's Razr. :)

My favorite are the phasers, as the type-2 pistols sport the three-barrel arrangement like the "lasers" in The Cage, while the type-3 rifles look like a mixture between that and the MACO rifles from Enterprise.

>Can't say much for the overall plot, though. I mean it's
>convenient for the mission writers that both the game's
>"present day" and the 2256 instance feature a War With The Klingons,
>so that they can get away with making the tutorials almost exactly the
>same, but... eh. DS9 did War Is Bad, Mmkay? better than either one.

Don't put too much thought into it, the writers responsible for Disco sure as hell didn't.