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It's not a reflection of if it's great art, I doubt too many people have Do The Right Thing action figures (although that would be awesome) but a collapse in merch sales from real Trek to Kurtzman Trek is a direct reflection of a loss of audience and the failure to replace that audience with an adequately large new one to replace those sales numbers.
Then why care so much? Obviously I’d like Trek to maintain a sufficient audience to keep getting produced, but beyond that I really don’t care. I want it to be good, not popular. I’ve loved plenty of shows that stayed pretty niche.
So to actually speak to quality: Kurtzman Trek has absolutely been a mixed bag, but I appreciate that he tries a lot of different approaches to the franchise and seems to be pretty hands off on most of them. It means we occasionally get some dreck like Section 31, but also some great stuff like SNW and, so far at least, Academy.