I dug 'em. It was a good experiment in pushing Trek's aliens beyond a forehead and an accent.
Or, keeping up SNW's traditions of reviving projects from early in Star Trek's history, we could finally get M'benga leading a medical frigate in the vein of the Hopeship pitch.
I concur with your conclusions. In the famous words of Captain Picard, it is possible to make no mistakes and still fail. Tilly did the best she could against a superior opponent, and when the opportunity to turn that defeat around arose, she scraped out a win with casualties minimized, and I think proved herself more prepared for command than the show or fandom generally gave her credit for.
Yes and it starts before too much longer.
I also, speaking as a trans person, really don't like how it handled its allegorical trans character plotline, especially relative to how Discovery, Prodigy, and SNW have handled actual trans and nonbinary characters.
Pretty quickly.
Memory Alpha seems to think that Vasquez Rocks is playing itself in that instance
Is SNW now branched off of the original canon into its own timeline?
Well, we know that choosing not to seek help for Una didn't result in the prime timeline. Ergo, it's likely this intervention was meant to occur.
I was surprised recently to realize that it might actually be "Time's Arrow"-- the more so because I'm not as much of a TNG person as I always thought I was. But Time's Arrow is a fun romp through a nifty and underserved setting, and the ending with Mark Twain is I think one of the most important sequences in TNG.
Looks new to me. If I had to guess it's whoever picked up Badgey making their move.