>>126281069It's a bit silly sometimes, but it's very much legit Trek, the good kind, not nuTrek.
I don't think the show had any visibly explosive increase in quality to qualify as growing a beard, but it's definitely an upward slope overall.
No stepping on the lore as far as I've noticed, and even manages to flesh out a little lore here and there.
One of the few complaints I can dig up about the show is that it's a bit heavy on the references sometimes; a side effect of being a love letter to good Trek, but it means there's jokes sprinkled everywhere that are just going to go over some people's heads.
Most of the hate (not all, just most) is just shitposting because it kind of looks like Rick and Morty, and is less serious than most of Trek.