Looks new to me. If I had to guess it's whoever picked up Badgey making their move.
This would be more appropriate for the reaction thread on /c/StarTrek.
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.
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.
Another key takeaway from this that I hadn't considered before:
Augments aren't just banned from Starfleet. They can't become doctors either. Speaking as a Jew my people know firsthand that one of the best ways to create an underclass is to restrict the occupations available to them. Are augments systematically kept out of skilled professions, denied the chance to better themselves and their fellow sapients? Very disturbing possiblity.
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.
Worf was a pretty crummy dad, I wouldn't be shocked to learn that as an adult he and Alexander are not in one another's lives.
...Moopsy!...