Of course then they went the AU route with Voyager and TNG movies. The Voyager episode with the Tuvok flash back where it turns out he just happened to serve under Captain Sulu back in the day has to be an all time low point for this sort of thing.
Um, Tuvok’s first appearance was in the opening scene of Star Trek Generations where he’s shown serving aboard the Enterprise B. Years before Voyager was a thing. They’re supposedly two separate but identical characters, but come on. Same with Tom Paris, he’s literally playing the same character from that episode of TNG where Wesley is nearly kicked out of the Academy. But they didn’t want to pay residuals to the writer of that episode so they changed his name for Voyager.
That character was not a Vulcan, how could it be Tuvok?
Yeah the Tom Paris thing was much closer and that was jerky thing to do to the writers of The First Duty considering it was one of the best episodes of TNG and Tom Paris wouldn’t exist if they had not create the their character. Still Tuvok was not in Generations and when you already have a show where they just happen to meet Quark in the first episode and then latter Janeway is briefing Picard it does make the Star Trek galaxy feel very small and when the franchise is supposed to be about exploring the final frontier that is a bad thing in my book.