Discovery wouldn't have gone to the 31st or whatever century.

This is a long, blithering exploration of what I think Star Trek could do with the pre-TOS (or pre-OS if you're in a hurry) era, but to boil it all down... Star Trek seriously needs to be less fucking prissy about continuity, especially when shows like Strange New Worlds are just going to go "lol the eugenics wars happened because-" and... yeah, I could yell for a while about that. SNW's writers just... hadn't seen First Contact, I guess?

okay i'm gonna just breathe

But for real. Give me Discovery. Give me pre-TOS.