It’s been 12 years since a new Star Trek episode aired, after Enterprise ended its run in 2005. To say that show was a let down would be an understatement.

But since then, we’ve had a triumphant return to the Star Trek universe with two out of the three latest movies (I like to pretend that Into Darkness doesn’t exist, but that’s an article for another time). I was worried that Star Trek: Beyond would be as bad as its predecessor, but then I was pleasantly surprised at how funny and just how Star Trek it actually was.

The trailers for CBS’s new series Star Trek: Discovery gave me mixed feelings. I love that the captain is a woman — a woman of color, no less — and I’m excited to see all of the cool aliens that Trekkies know and love. But it also looks like an action show that takes itself really seriously. There’s also a Klingon redesign that looks more Guardians of the Galaxy than Star Trek to me. I didn’t see any funny moments that portray the lighthearted spirit of Star Trek either, which worries me.

Trekkies know that the best Star Trek episodes are the ones that don’t take itself seriously. I mean, come on, it’s a show about space with a lot of the actors in elaborate prosthetics and/or body paint. You can’t be that serious with a Klingon in the scene and the actor is struggling to enunciate through his fake teeth or with a Cardassian just hanging out with their lizard neck. I’m worried that Discovery took only the history of the series and nothing else that made the it special.

The whole point of Star Trek isn’t to have some action adventure. It’s to explore thinly-veiled allegory on the current times set against a post-scarcity society that has the technology to explore space. In fact, if you watch through the multiple series, they rarely engage in combat (ok, in Deep Space 9, they’re literally in a war for part of the series, but c’mon, the Founders are trying to wipe them out). They would rather engage with a new species of alien and learn from them than to conquer and destroy.

Star Trek is supposed to be an example of who we could be as a people. They’re peaceful, science-oriented, and accepting of other cultures (for the most part. There’s some beef with the Klingons in TOS and the Borg in TNG). Hopefully Discovery takes these elements from the previous shows and builds on them. There have been a lot of Star Trek disappointments, as with any concept that runs for as long as it has, but there have been many shining examples of what good TV and movies can achieve.

I hope that the writers have learned from mistakes made during Voyager and Enterprise. I hope that the show is funny and thoughtful instead of action-packed and violent. Casting so far seems excellent and I wouldn’t be upset if there were cameos from familiar Star Trek faces like Worf and Data, but the series is set before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise crew set off on their adventures.

Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS on September 24 before moving to CBS All Access for its 15 episode run. I know that I’ll be watching with my comm badge on, just waiting to beam aboard.