OK, so this is basically Stellaris - Star Trek Edition, which, as someone with over 600 hours in Stellaris, is at least relevant to me (even though I'm not a huge Star Trek fan). However, there is already an excellent Star Trek mod for Stellaris called ST: New Horizons, which honestly might end up being better than this game.
Star Trek: Infinite should be a streamlined and simpler version of Stellaris, which might be cool for a couple of games for me, but it certainly won't replace Stellaris. It seems pretty smart from a marketing standpoint, though, as it should serve as a good entry point as "baby's first" grand strategy game, coupled with the Star Trek IP. This should be a certain hit.
Anyways, I just thought some folks might be into this.
Star Trek: New Horizons already is better, however it's kind of a bloated mess that's even more overwhelming than regular Stellaris is.
I'm interested to see how different it looks closer to release, because we've seen over the years that the Stellaris platform is pretty malleable and I assume a lot of the straight-asset-flips and whatnot will disappear over time.
My biggest complaint with New Horizons is the sheer number of speciality minerals that you need to build/research things.