What if Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted in 2017 instead of 1987?

https://www.quora.com/Which-TV-shows-movies-from-the-70s-or-80s-would-not-exist-today-due-to-the-current-political-cultural-climate

Why would this show not fly today?

For one thing today’s science fiction fans are a lot more tech savy and therefore far less willing to tolerate technobable, hand-waved explanations and general inaccuracies. Star Trek was created before the World Wide Web, average viewers were less likely to realize that much of the series’ so called science was pure fantasy. This was fine at the time because they mixed some real science in there and got a lot more people interested in the subject who wouldn’t have been otherwise. Unfortunately for Trek the end result is an audience less willing to accept bad science in their entertainment. If Star Trek: The Next Generation were first airing today Neil Degrasse Tyson’s twitter feed would accumulate so many factual corrections it would collapse in on itself and form a digital black hole.

More importantly people today are too cynical for a show like TNG. Today's viewers increasingly don’t believe in the idea of a more positive future hence the prevalence of dystopian and post apocalyptic novels, films and TV shows. The most optimistic space operas of today, like The Expanse at best operate with a sort of “same shit different century” milieu. The world isn’t dramatically worse but not necessarily better. Many of todays problems such as racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, and war on Earth don’t seem to exist, but new ones have cropped up including corporate oligarchy on an unprecedented scale, interplanetary cold wars, exploitation of Belters, and OPA terrorism. Star Trek’s technological utopianism and humanism wouldn’t resonate with modern audiences, who are increasingly distrustful of technology and jaded about human nature.