McBinary

I worked in restaurants for like 15 years. Every time someone would ask me to take their picture for them, I would always tell them to say “Fuzzy Pickles” and it got the goofiest smiles from everyone.

I disagree completely. It definitely was Star Trek, and was independently a good show. It just abandoned the typical episodic story containing trope that Star Trek uses in lieu of the more modern season-long plot. Its definitely not for everyone, but the only times I thought it was lacking was when it tried to appease those that like the more episodic path which came off as filler (alternate dimension episodes).

I’m gonna go the other way and recommend Discovery before Strange New Worlds. Canonically, SNW happens after Discovery and even refers to it at times. Also, people like to hate on Discovery but I found Discovery so much better than most modern Trek. It brought dramatic cohesion to the ST universe and abandoned the silly episodic crap that had no ties with the episodes before or after it.