1.TNG has constantly ranked in many greatest tv shows of all time by critics and many sci op-ed. EW, Time, Rolling Stone, Variety, Empire to name a few than TNG has appeared in as among the best tv show ever. they also cited some of the episodes I listed to show how great the writing could be.
2. Nimoy TOS Spock is an iconic character in american culture. this is a truth. he is the star trek character who has comes close to darth vader, luke sky walker, homer simpson, batman and spiderman in terms of popularity and been beloved.
3. star trek 2009 where Quinto Spock appears is still the most critically acclaimed and successful trek incarnation of the nu trek era both from fans and critics. In the contrary the kelvin actors are still most famous in the trek roles.
there are people today who are not up 30 or 50 that know about chris pine or zoe saldana playing star trek characters. most people don't know paul wesley or celia rose googind are playing kirk and uhura. 2009 was not that long ago and this movie was a sensation especially in the USA. I was there, I lived it, I was part of it.
SFX Magazine named it also the best sci fi movie of the entire decade, it made AFI and National Board of reviews top movie of 2009. Even after 15 years it has the highest RT critical acclaimed and audience score of nut trek. the sequels also fared better in audience approval than SNW or other streaming trek series.
SNW is still a very niche thing. This is why paramount likes to post free full episodes on you tube and why they can't make a full season any more. I do wonder if may be if SNW had written spock character closer to TOS trek and balanced out the gender ratio, the show would have fared better
