oofgh, job hunting's done for today, it was definitely like swimming through molasses.
HOT TAKE: Trek Tha Old Skool never really had a compelling world so much as a loose framework for relating short stories, a TV show equivalent to Argosy or whatevs. Its primary appeal is that it was "pretty okay" when there just weren't alternatives.
HOTTER TAKE: despite this, TOS' actors especially managed to make it compelling enough for people to want something further out of it, which imho is incredible.