For me the essence of Star Trek was a group of scientists flying around space and, even with all their advanced technology, still having to bootstrap solutions to the problems they encountered and innovate. It might have been a warp core instead of a gas generator but it still needed to be hit with the spanner from time to time. And I loved every second of it.

Roddenberry’s utopian ideals are still lauded as the ideal for society (and rightly so) but the TNG era wasn’t devoid of conflict or wars; they just went about trying to avoid conflict for as long as possible in order to preserve life.

This seems to have passed over the head of writers like Abrams and Kurtzman. There is more tension and edge-of-your-seat thrills in TNG classic ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ than in the whole of Discovery and the new movies put together.

I can’t comment on SNW as I haven’t seen it but for me the closest anyone has come to the classic feeling of Trek is Lower Decks. Strip out the self-referential humour and you have classic Star Trek.