With or without Clarkson, I really wanted at least one more Star Trek with Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock before they went boldly into the annals of future history.
That series is set in roughly the same time period as the Star Trek movies, but the two don’t really overlap — and now Discovery is adding Spock to the series, where he’ll be played by someone other than Quinto.
And it’s a rule in Hollywood: You can’t have more than one Spock running around at the same time. Alas.
Realistically, the series was probably doomed when Star Trek: Discovery started.