The PC route isn’t working out so they’ve resorted to constantly bringing it callbacks to past series.
The left with its grip on the media industry has strangled the creative arts to death.
The irony is they spent their entire time marketing the show for how "diverse" they are and sneering about how Star Trek has had enough straight white males as the focus... and now the ONLY thing they've had a success with on STD is to showcase the straight white male character of Captain Pike (which they stole from a previous Star Trek show)