I’m optimistic also. I’m treating it like its just another scifi release in May. It’s not Star Trek. It just happens to have the same names. Same way I approached the new BSG in '03.
Yet I wasn’t as invested in BSG as I am in Star Trek. '78 BSG was a campy show that reminded me of Star Wars and as a child I would play as Starbuck and Apollo. Star Trek has raised me. It is in my blood.