I can appreciate it for the same reasons.
If you grew up on the TAS, then it was as much a nostalgia piece, as much as a "what if?" I don't think I would appreciate it without that background. It wasn't good, but it is an interesting contrast; take the TOS with TAS animation, and you get a good story, much of the time, even if cut down to half and with limited artist.
Take a NG story to TAS graphics and you don't get anything beyond comparison.
The pink Borg was a great image to TAS, where the Kzin and other things that were supposed to be gray were pink; because the animator of TAS, Hal Sutherland, was color bind (or sp the story goes)!!!!