“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s: Season 1 finale built its villain’s defeat on strontium’s actual emission spectrum -- a forensic chemistry fact since 1860. As Season 2 arrives on Paramount+ in March 2027, revisit how ’Rubincon‘ grounded Omega-47 in QCD glueball physics and its cyberwarfare
I agree, and am not a big fan of Wesley being warp Mozart either, but I think the core difference between those and Discovery is that they were one offs. Plenty of single episodes can be shrugged off (*ahem* Threshold) but in Discovery the spore drive was in every episode, and The Burn was a persistent feature of the future timeline. The show spent seasons dealing with these things.
Yeah, fair, if you don’t care for those instances of old Trek, you’re not going to like when new Trek embraces similar stuff. I actually like all the episodes I listed (also a fan of the novel The Wounded Sky, which the first one was based on), but that’s just me.