Ah so that is terrific Disco didn't violate sacred canon which some fans seem to venerate so bloody much. .... I love Disco
Some Trek fans just have short memories. the Berman era didn't really even have a "sacred canon" until variously, Season 6 of TNG, Season 3 of DS9, and Season 3 of Voyager (all of which, obviously were different years). TNG played it fast and loose with how big the Federation was, what the political status of local space was, how powerful and fast ships were for almost the entire thing. DS9 decided to get specific about defining fundamental characteristics of its fictional universe only exactly when it needed to - in the run up to the Dominion War. And Voyager pretty much ignored everything and was a strange show until it came across the Borg. In every case, the canon was respected when it serviced the story.
When TNG was on the air, until it really, really established itself, it actively ignored what came before. Heck for most of the first season, it wasn't clear what year it took place (a lot of Trek fans at the time thought the 2310s, literally a generation after Star Trek IV). It tried to be a re-invention by design because the idea of respecting canon wasn't really invented yet, as multi-generational franchises didn't really even exist then.
I think the original intent of Disco, particularly under Bryan Fuller, was to basically do the same thing and create a TNG Season 1 revamp of Star Trek that played it loose with what came before, but this time by explicit design. Star Trek ships looking radically different, having those uniforms, the Klingons, the sets was exactly the same distance really that TNG Season 1 was from TOS Season 3. And all the same, many TOS fans thought the same about TNG. Command wearing red? Ridiculous. The Captain not beaming down but the first officer instead? Terrible. Who the heck are the Ferengi, where were the Vulcans, and why do Romulan ships look like that?
I was not a fan of much of Discovery Season 1 because I felt it was messy, overdramatic and the ties Spock weird. I liked the revamp in Season 2 very much, but really Season 3 is the start of the "real" show as far as I'm concerned. And it's so strange, that I looked forward to Star Trek Picard so much, and now, I can't wait to see what happens next on Discovery far more. I'm interested in the sunset of the 24th century story, but being I want to know so much more about the 32nd Century now. Discovery really saved itself by running far away from the old canon and writing new entries. I think what sold that to me more than anything was Unification III and "Ni'var", which I think is one of Trek's best episodes since TNG.
And when Season 2 was on, I like many people thought a Captain Pike Enterprise show would be far better to watch than Discovery. And now we're getting that. And while I'm still interested, last year, I looked at it as a replacement for Discovery. This year, I want to watch that, but I want to learn more about what is in store for the 32nd century and Discovery and its cast.
It's really one of the biggest show turn arounds I've ever seen. But I think it'll never escape the problems of Season 1 and parts of Season 2 because people are just so toxic now. Strange New Worlds is going to step all over canon, but it'll probably get more leeway by virture of just not having some aggravating factors from the get go that stained Discovery.
