Honestly I can't get over the apologism for this show. Not only did it just completely wreck established lore on basically everything, it ripped off almost all of what it was from other sources, and the writing was just terrible. It ripped off so much from Mass Effect, too, from visuals like the holographic displays/controls, to the pervasive anti-AI attitude, to the overall plot, really. Both Stewart and the guy who ran the show admitted that the story was taking a back seat to politics as well, and boy did it show. They also ripped off quite a bit from LotR, though not quite as blatantly. It's almost like this show wanted to be anything but Star Trek, and boy did it succeed.
Forgotten is the utopian, post-scarcity Earth, where wealth disparity is no longer a thing because you can literally just replicate whatever you want, the advanced medical technology from even years in the past of when this series was supposed to take place, and the histories of pretty much all the characters. Just as an example, the show was so obsessed with everyone and their uncle yelling at Picard about how he was wrong about everything, and everything bad that had happened was his fault, that everyone just completely forgot about one of the few award-winning episodes of TNG, where Picard lived an entire lifetime and had a family, which was shown to have still effected him long afterwards, all so Riker and Troi can talk down to him about how he allegedly doesn't know how to deal with a teenager. Another thing is that the show is built around this strange obsession Picard supposedly had with Data, which is based on a relationship the characters were never shown to have. I suppose one could argue that Picard was somehow effected by Data sacrificing himself to save his life, but this is hardly the first time his crew saved his ass at the last minute. Hell, Data was instrumental in breaking through to him as Locutus. But where was Data's real best friend? Where was Geordi? Also apparently forgotten are all the times Picard has saved the Earth and the Federation, all so he can be berated over the dumbest things. Also forgotten is the strength of the Romulan Empire - they shouldn't have needed any kind of help from the Federation. It also makes no sense why they would need to build a completely brand new fleet - that was entirely so Kurtzman could inject his 9/11 truther bullshit. And all of Seven's character development was thrown directly into the garbage in order to become whatever this show needed her to be. It's appalling that so much was thrown out, even as the show threw in all these little continuity references, like Icheb lacking a part because he'd donated it to Seven, yet they couldn't remember that Picard had actually had a family, or the advanced state of medical technology which could have saved Icheb, probably pretty easily?
Gads, there's so much I could go into, but I find myself not really wanting to, because I'd have to write a damn essay to get it all out.
One final point I want to cover, though, is this argument that always seems to come up to defend anything stupid a new Star Trek series does, which has been used to defend STD, and I can even remember it being used to excuse ENT's stupidity, which is the idea that the other shows sucked in their first couple of seasons, too. I'd actually argue that wasn't really so much the case, as both TNG and DS9 has some pretty good episodes in their first couple of seasons (hell, DS9 had "Duet" in its first season), but that's really besides the point. The real point is that this isn't much of an argument specifically because any new show now has all the lessons that were ever learned on any of the shows, going all the way back to 1987. All those lessons, are there for the learning, along with those learned by all kinds of other shows (nuBSG, for example), if anyone working on nuTrek actually cared enough to avoid making the same mistakes over again. Of course, they basically jettisoned everything but names and a few things here and there out the airlock.