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I'm very nearly over these non-news about things RTD might have done "if only"...
I've struggled with SNW, and still do. One realisation made the latest season almost tolerable for me: They're not doing Star Trek, they're trying to do Doctor Who.
Say what you will about either show, but there are a lot more silly non sequitur stories in Who than Trek. The whole concept just allows for it, and that's how it should be. But the same approach doesn't work for me in Star Trek.
So yeah, Russell. It would have to be SNW because that's the Trek show that airs "Reality war" level storylines.
The nice thing here is that what he's saying has been corroborated by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman - it feels much more like his side of the story, rather than the usual RTD bluster and bombast.
As for SNW...I'm sure I could write essays about it, but this is hardly the right community (maybe we should set something up for Star Trek...?). I think the bottom line is that I'm glad they've been pushing the boundaries of what people expect in the 2020s, and have embraced the chaotic TOS Season 3 energy. I also have a weird appreciation for the fact that they've been so episodic, it may have given the "I want episodic Trek" crowd some things to reconsider.
But it is not my favourite series of the current era, and has been pretty squarely up the middle for me. I suspect its overall reception will be revised upward over time, as tends to happen.