It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this is going to suck balls. Even one simple thing, why is the Captain of a ship not Enterprise and the crew wearing an Enterprise insignia set BEFORE TOS ? Every ship had their own special insignia. Two, and this is a big one, there should be no female Captains prior to TOS (except perhaps for early on, which presumably would’ve accounted for why Starfleet banned women Captains due to a higher hazard rate for their serving — to paraphrase James Brown, “This is a man’s universe.”).
Gay stuff shouldn’t be there. The ship looking ludicrously modern also shouldn’t, either. There are ways to accommodate a retro look, and should be pursued. I also believe there was a reaction at the time in the future against everything being “computerified” and a simplification of technology. Of course, there’s also the likely situation in the future that with technology, humanesque robots will be running the show (as mentioned in “Dune”, humans were reduced to atrophying because they were being “served” by the robots, and it led to a great war for humans to reassert themselves and their own “Prime Directive” forbidding robots to be made in the image of humans).
You’re also right about Sarek, he should have no role in this, no British accent (like the bizarre and false casting in Faux Trek), unless they happen to be at Federation HQ on Earth and bump into him serving as Ambassador.
I hear they also changed the Klingons’ appearance AGAIN. Klingons at or near Federation space at the time should resemble what they did in TOS, which was done for a reason, as there was an attempt to infiltrate and undermine the Fed from within using Human/Klingon hybrids (not having enough time or $$ for TOS to give them skull ridges actually enriched the potential backstory and made that “Tribbles” episode become a lot clearer).
The “no female Captains” things is totally implausible, the lib PC Federation would never do that, and I can’t even think of a reason why they would, what’s wrong with a female Captain? How is a “hazard”?
The writers of that episode may have indented that but so what, Janice Lester was nuts, she could have been rejected because she was unstable and in her mind chalked it up to sexism, that makes much more sense.
Why are the Klingons bald? They look stupid.