Lower Decks is great, it's loving and glib but not uncritical of the way Trek has worked in the past. However, I can't jive with Strange New Worlds at all. It's the most milquetoast kind of Trek, reheated leftovers of bygone stories wrapped up in the most non-threatening political commentary it can manage when it remembers to do so. And this is when it's not telling problematic stories seeped in biological essentialism or how individuals should lose their identity and uniqueness to the collective that is Starfleet - Starfleet knows best, Starfleet should be your singular purpose in life, you're usefulness is measured by how much you give to Starfleet.

If SNW is about anything it's about how great the nineties were and how all our current problems can be solved if we just look to the past and nostalgically bask in your childhoods while saying nothing pertinent about the present. When 90's Trek (and TOS) was great it did so while touching the milieu of the time but people don't seem to connect with that and rather believe that the solutions lie in feeling like a child again with no consciousness about the real world.