Yeah, I don't know if they're focusing on more geographically spread-out areas, or what.
There's been a little bit of vagueness about the details - even in the recent SFX article, Kurtzman hedged a little bit about just how much it overlaps with Discovery.
“The new show synchronizes with the first two years of Starfleet returning to its full form. The safest way to look at it is it’s like when Discovery ends, we begin - but there’s kind of a two-year overlap.”
So it might be (or parts of it might be) running concurrently with Discovery season 5. It probably doesn't matter very much.
I'm not familiar with the franchise, but I have been pretty impressed with Wyatt Russell. He was delightfully unlikeable in Falcon & the Winter Soldier.
It sounds like the party is in the toilet, and the PQ is riding high in the polls...
(although the ongoing IDW comic Star Trek: The Last Starship, whose writers previously teased to io9 that it had connections to the events of Starfleet Academy, suggested that the Federation was on the verge of incorporating every known galactic civilization into the Federation at the time of the Burn, with the Gorn being the last intergalactic outliers)
Although Klingons had been mentioned multiple times across Discovery‘s later seasons, the show never explored much of what happened to the Klingons by the 32nd century.
It's interesting that they brought up The Last Starship in one context, but didn't carry that forward to the discussion of the Klingons. As I understand it (without having actually read it), according to the comic,
Spoilers for Star Trek: The Last Starship
The Klingons did join the Federation, but a sect known as "The Black Path" attacked Earth in the wake of the Burn. This directly led to Earth's secession from the Federation, and presumably the Klingons' as well.
I think they've done a decent job of giving each series its own tone and identity.
In any case, SFA and the remaining two SNW seasons are all we're going to be getting any time soon.
I think it "matured" throughout the new era as well, with RTD seemingly hitting a hard reset to being more kind-friendly in the Gatwa era.
At least, I think that's what he was going for.
Star Trek currently just has this new series and Strange New Worlds, which has wrapped production on its final season. 🤷
I mean, it's YouTube...
it had become a show for a younger audience.
It arguably always has been, though I think the degree to which that's the case has fluctuated over the years.
Curiouser and curiouser...
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