move the franchise forward

You’re absolutely right and we’ve been asking for this since the end of Voyager and I think one of the biggest reasons why Enterprise had such rough time.

90s Trek was fantastic and did a great job handing off to each other. Even Voyager being stranded was still moving the world forward. Then we reset back to the first Enterprise, absolutely killing all the momentum.

The best thing Discovery ever did (apart from soft launching Strange New Worlds which got lucky) was launch us into the far future and give us a place to build.

I never would have asked for that. Picard seemed like that path forward, but struggled (season 1), told a what if story (season 2), and then just did a fun reunion (season 3). But ultimately set up a Seven show that just never happened.

But we’re in the far future now. Discovery put us there. Starfleet Academy is building and moving us forward again. It’s not perfect, but it’s building and I’m in.