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Of course, you can't say anything bad about it. "How pathetic, you're an adult getting mad about it?!! It's for pre-schoolers, you idiot!!!" But they're missing the point entirely.
It's something that points to and underscores everything about how everyone involved with Kurtzman Trek fundamentally do not understand Trek. On any level. Star Trek didn't create generations of audiences by talking down to them. Star Trek created generations of audiences by intriguing young minds, inviting them to rise up to their level. And it generally worked. You don't need to conscript a new fandom out of pre-schoolers (and what is that, anyway? do you really want your new fandom to grow OUT of something so early?) when the old stuff was transcending generations in real-time.
Probably for the same reason that Kurtzman's cronies are left puzzled that only adults turned out to see Star Trek: Prodigy (but barely so, because it LOOKED like it was made for 5 year-olds) and not the 10-14 year old audience they made it for who didn't want anything to do with it. In fact, it did so bad, Paramount+ removed it from its service and Netflix, who actually paid out of their own pocket to finish up Prodigy season 2 and put it there did not bother to renew season 1 there because nobody was watching any of it.
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