I mean, the 2007 movie line was what they'd just been doing. It's not like they reached deep into the archives and brought back a random gimmick from 1993.
Shelby was a great double fakeout. She's introduced and you're like "oh, I see, they're trying to make us think Riker is leaving and she's going to be his replacement," and then the plot of the episode happens and you realize she's actually the potential replacement for Riker when Picard is gone.
I like to think the oddity of Starfleet ships appearing to be crewed mostly by humans is explained away by the greater oddity of all the alien species that look identical to humans, like El-Aurians or the gangster planet people.
But now they're incrementally more similar to their cartoon models, so now they're Good as opposed to the slightly older ones which were Terrible, even though a couple years ago those ones were Good and it was the ones from 2014 that were Terrible, even though...
Memory Alpha thinks Chekov was assigned to the Enterprise fresh out of the Academy sometime during the first season. Assuming for the sake of argument that their assumptions are valid and won't be retconned (both of which are shaky TBH but I've got to base my speculation on something), I think...
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