I’ve just watched all five seasons. Couple of thoughts and questions:
So they come up a new advanced drive, which is powered by. . . a giant tardigrade with a bad attitude? We expect a certain amount of technical mumbo-jumbo, but that was the best they could do?
Was there a stated reason that the writers vaulted it 900 years into the future? Felt constrained by working within the limits of TOS universe?
Did they have a vision on what caused “The Burn” when that was introduced? If they wanted to come up with a galaxy-spanning catastrophe that they were eventually planning to explain, it seems as though they could have come up with something other than it having been caused by upset, orphaned, lonely, abandoned kid having an emotional meltdown.