They call it "NuTrek"

The biggest difference I've found between the "old" trek and the "new" trek is the focus which is used to tell the intended story. I watch all trek, new and old. But it's the focus and intent that has changed in my opinion.

Let's move back to TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9, and Enterprise. (The Pentateuch of Star Trek in my opinion). These shows were first and foremost trying to tell a Science Fiction story, a story about the future, with new technology to dazzle us and a hopeful message that violence is the answer to an exhausted question and was inherently a failure if needed. There were messages about social inequality, social commentary, relationships, and lessons to be learned. But this was always running secondary to the main message of science fiction.


Then we move to Discovery. This show reverses the original trend, where now the main story arcs revolve around social justice, relationships, emoption, and social commentary. Science fiction, and everything else often took a back seat to these agendas which is why I think a lot of the older viewers did not take to the new show. Before, what was subtle, was now loud and the main focus. And it made the "older" trekkies uncomfortable.

The Kelvin timeline movies: As with discovery, now action and adventure took front stage. Leaving storytelling, and mostly science fiction behind. there was nothing to dazzle our curiosity and hope, just old west gunfights in space. The main story plot in all of the Kelvin movies is revenge, one of the ugliest human emotions.

Picard: This series it seems to me, was working hard to try and reverse the course of the kelvin movies. While you still had mainly action and adventure, the producers seemed to be trying to steer the series back to a message of hope and family.

Strange new worlds continues this trend, feeling like a full circle back to the TOS, TNG era. Where messages of social commentary and justice are present but subtle. And where the main goal is to become the best version of oneself.