I am cribbing this from a reddit post, but I thought it really poignant on the nutrek topic.
Basically, the writers of nutrek have most ####ed up by their confusing out of time references.
They took STD 1000 years into the future because the writers were feeling too constrained by existing canon (LOL on this one though, as if that stopped them at all)
Then, instead of using that 1000 year gap to create new stories, they loaded it up with nostalgia vampirism: referencing Voyager, smashing old characters in wherever possible, etc. This was probably due to the comparative success of lower decks and the studio thinking this meant that nostalgia was the only way.
Then STA is conceived as this real "start fresh, in the future" to tell new stories. But what do they do? Seemingly revolve the story around key figures from 1000 years ago!! What!?!
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