One of the things I’ve liked from all the “new” Trek (Discovery, Strange New World, Lower Decks, and Picard) is that writers who grew up with TNG and its flaws (which shared similar flaws with the other Trek of that era) have very pointedly been fixing those things, or at least lampshading them.

And it’s just really cool to see newer Trek, which was written by writers raised on old Trek, learning from and doing better than its predecessors. It’s kind of a meta thing, almost…Trek is about learning and doing better, and now writers who watched it and wanted to learn and do better are learning and doing better. (And making mistakes here and there–but that’s only grist for the NEXT generation to learn from, eh? Haha.)

Like, I remember in Discovery when an Admiral who was previously a ship’s councilor showed up. It felt very much like a response to how Troi was handled. (Although I admit I didn’t like how Troi was handled in the last season of Picard, as I was hoping her to show some competence in a certain scene. Sigh.)