Bryan Fuller created Star Trek: Discovery, but he didn't get to implement his wishes before he left. And that's a shame, considering some of the ideas he had. Though Discovery found its rhythm and fans, Fuller's plans would have started the series out with a bang.
We already know that he had to fight for Sonequa Martin-Green to be the series lead as Captain Michael Burham, but he had another ace up his sleeve. He wanted an Emmy-award winning actor to play a Klingon in the first season of the series as he revealed in an interview withThe D-Con Chamber with Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating [via Screenrant]. And that actor was none other than Laurence Fisburne, better known as Morpheus from The Matrix trilogy.
Fuller didn't say if he intended for Fishburne to take on the role of T'Kuvma or if he had another Klingon in mind, but having Fishburne in the first season would have been a major coup, especially since the Klingons used weren't the ones that Fuller wanted. In fact, Fuller said, "My last week there, I had approved the Starfleet uniforms, which they tossed out. And I had rejected the Klingons, which they kept."
Fuller wrote a combined total of twenty-two episodes for Star Trek:Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In other words, he knew what worked for the fans, and there's little doubt he could have made Discovery a series well-liked by fans of the Berman-era series.
Fishburne could have been the Michael Dorn of the series and would have had a huge impact on the show's future. A commanding presence, Fishburne keeps all eyes on him when he's on screen, and he would have made a believable Klingon, especially if he'd taken the part of the ruler, T'Kuvma.
Overall, the ideas Fuller had in mind for the series would have caused it to excel in ways it didn't. Unfortunately, he left due to creative differences, which meant others got their way, and we got the Klingons that we never want to see again.