Clear as mud, where the timeline thing is concerned.
Ah yes, less optimism. Exactly what we want out of Star Trek and entertainment in general these days.
So many fans would be happy with seeing a different crew with their own top notch Starfleet crew, involved in their own mission that, while might not be galaxy-breaking, is crucial to part of established history somehow (like how they connected Khitomer in several ways). Why do we have to keep inventing new timelines or move into the future more or new looks for canon ships?
Because it’s difficult to write things that mesh with things that already exist.
We already see, time after time, some storyline that requires some new and novel solution that we never ever hear from ever again.
If I might go to Star Wars for an analogy - there’s different opinions out there, but for me, Rogue One was pretty good. Andor was jsut about the best series of any genre I’ve seen. Watching Rogue One after Andor was… weird.
Trying to see them back-fill stuff into Strange New Worlds is weird. It’s mostly fun, but it’s better when they sort of ignore that part of the storyline. (Although they get a bit silly, which is also annoying to me, but whatever)
Also, it’s hard to build more and more tech as things supposedly advance more and more and more - and then when they do go back in time they want those fun toys so the figure out how to get them in but somehow they magically disappear again until needed later.
