A lot of people hate on the new Star Trek shows, though I've enjoyed most of them, particularly Lower Decks,
I just finished watching Lower Decks about two weeks ago. It's an odd show almost like a Star Trek answer to The Orville (remember when that was getting talked about?) but I do agree that I'd put it on the positive side as a better Star Trek show of this new era. Although, I feel that Star Trek: Brave New Worlds has actually been the best so far and closest to the older Trek style of stories. That said, I've only seen the first two seasons so there's still time for it to lose that goodwill. I'm surprised too because I really didn't think a show that seemed like it could be trying to wring more juice out of the Kirk/Spock era and characters seemed like a great idea but Pike had been one of the few positive elements of Discovery Season 2 which had caused me to give up on this new Trek era for awhile and I'm glad it was able to be much better than that show. Would like to get around to Prodigy and maybe I actually will give Picard a second chance having only ever watched the first episode of season 1. I don't hear much love for that series but they heavily advertised how all the old crew members would show up in Season 3 and it's always had me curious since of how that all may play out.
My biggest problem with Brave New Worlds is how it has to dance around the original series and trying to keep the canon straight. It's something I don't really care about. I've still never gotten around to watching all the episodes of the original series. I just find it hard to enjoy it with the pacing and look of it particularly with everything that came after. It was already kind of awkward trying to keep it canon in the 90s like when DS9 did an episode of a few members being around for The Trouble With Tribbles and holding onto the style of uniforms and technology and it's just gotten worse in this era of new Trek. I just can't see viewers introduced to Trek by watching Brave New Worlds deciding to follow along with what happens to Kirk and Spock in the 60s series after. It hit me while watching the show that they should just reboot the original series. Sure, there'd be some fans in an uproar about throwing out the original series canon and replacing it with a new one but reboots and revamps happen all the time nowadays. Plus, I feel it would mainly just be more of the much older fans who care that much about the older series and thus a shrinking base. I think there would be more Trek fans open to it than against it but maybe I'm wrong. With the Trek movie series reportedly dead because it would cost too much for the actors and effects based on expected box office returns, it seems like the door is open to not have two competing visions of the original era and to redo so that it could be a bit more inline with the Trek rules and regulations we think of nowadays from the TNG - present era.
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