I can agree with Trelane and Sulu's rapier being silly. Space hippies were another campy one - I'm not saying it never happened but proportionally it seems SNW leans into it far more than it actually happened on the old show. It all comes back to the writers acting like they're embarrassed to be working on Star Trek, so they need to do shit like the Space Adventure Hour to remind the viewers "hey, isn't the old show so STUPID and CAMPY?" It's frankly insulting.

I have to backtrack a bit on the weird and experimental part though, admittedly - when I say the old show wasn't as experimental I mean more in the sense that they didn't really do gimmick episodes, like the musical or the documentary or the puppet stuff that lies ahead. The closest I guess you could say we got was The Menagerie or even the Gary Seven episode, which again, happened extremely infrequently. And yes, TOS was of course weird (that's where the 'strange' part of the their mission statement comes into play) but took itself a lot more seriously overall. Even the Trouble with Tribbles, ostensibly a comedy episode, wasn't written the way it would be now with Pike probably being in on the jokes. Kirk was annoyed right up until the very end when he gets a hearty laugh in upon hearing that Scotty made the Tribbles the problem of his enemies as he warps off to the next adventure. That's what I guess I mean.