I really like and really enjoy Strange New Worlds, Picard season 3 and Lower Decks. When I watch thoose three shows of so called New Trek I fell happiness and joy.
Let's go further. I'm 100% ok with Prodigy but I'm not enjoying it. When we talk about [censored!] i really hate it, unrelated to what was born from it and what was not.
Take care in using the NuTrek standard ST09, STID, STB, STP, STLD abbreviations with a certain other show on this forum.
I think about half of STLD is nice... just takes a while to become consistently good. PRODIGY I find legit great. SNW... well I just can't get over the tone/continuity problems with it, so found its first season to be harder to watch than that of the just canceled show.
And this season is insanely good.
Maybe as a forums member and a ST fan more than 21 year I have some rights to tell my opinion about [censored!]. For me it's a complete low-quality garbage. I didn't enjoy not for even second of that show. I forced myself to watch it just to be up to date about Star Trek Universe, but I stopped at the half of season 4. Even thoose episodes I watched it was with rewind and skip.
My opionion about [censored!] is shared among huge number of fans in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, that I'm aware of it. But it doesn't metter. 1.000.000 of fans can have their own positive opinion about [censored!], I can have the other one and I would not change it.
If I'm narrow minded bcs I can't accept KlingOrcs, all the time crying people, amusment park in ship's center, stupid story about destructed warp capability and million other things of [censored!] - ok I have narrow mind. End of story.
This BBS seems to overrepresent the pro-DISCOVERY section of the fanbase. There's also Reddit, YouTube, podcasts, and Twitter if you need to come for air now and then.
One possibility is that people that disliked it would have gradually dropped off. I think for many Star Trek fans, the idea of ~not~ watching a ST series would seem like a very strange concept to them. One reason so many people end up hating DISCOVERY is that they stuck around for too long -- pretty much hate watching it, then hit their final breaking point that made them walk away.
Voyager lasted 7 years and was tradional Trek, the fact ST

lasted only 5 seasons in a politcal climate that favored it is very telling.
Part of it is the different series' release methods. VGR was commissioned by UPN, who wouldn't have wanted many potential viewers to be alienated if the politics were too one sided and heavy handed -- so structurally it had to target a much broader market. Plus it had to meet FCC regulations. Whereas DISCOVERY was commissioned for streaming, had money coming in for Netflix for its first three seasons, and was willing to target much more narrow demographic segments, even if in doing so it was structurally divisive to many in the potential viewing audience.