SNW draws on pre-existing continuity but it also reinterprets it for a 2020s audience, many of whom might be new to Star Trek. So SNW isn’t dependent on knowledge of TOS to enjoy or understand most of what’s going on. It’s not even really that dependent on knowledge of Discovery, which introduced these versions of…

Worrying about continuity with TOS is a mug’s game. We are far, far past that. There will be continuity in the broadest of strokes. Scotty obviously is going to survive the second half of the two-parter. Hang around long enough and Sulu and Chekov will surely pop up eventually. But anything more granular is a lost…

Well only after he extensively critiques Pikes Technique of putting Alien herbs into his Jambalaya as white boy nonsense and then he’’d show how to make a real Cajun Jambalaya

I genuinely don’t get it.