My biggest problem with the modern Star Trek series they've been producing is the inability they have to get out of the series' past. Lower Decks was fun, but it was so self-referential I couldn't recommend it to new viewers. Strange New Worlds is a retread of *very* familiar ground. Disco only got really interesting once it got into new territory, at which point of course they summarily cancelled it.

To be clear, there are things I like about all these series. I'm not calling them bad. Put the pitchforks away.

But I feel like between writer's inability to see a positive future even in science fiction and corporate moneyball betting on a 5% higher return on investment with Establish Property rather than New Idea, we're only ever gonna get Star Trek: The Previous Generation. And that's really depressing.

Like, show me what happens when the Federation's ideals become so widely accepted that it basically stops existing as a political entity. Show me galactic Utopian Techno-Anarchism.

@CactuarJoe Like, when the monsters all go away and everything is in harmony? You sweet innocent child.

My biggest problem with the modern Star Trek series they've been producing is the inability they have to get out of the series' past. Lower Decks was fun, but it was so self-referential I couldn't recommend it to new viewers. Strange New Worlds is a retread of *very* familiar ground. Disco only got really interesting once it got into new territory, at which point of course they summarily cancelled it.

To be clear, there are things I like about all these series. I'm not calling them bad. Put the pitchforks away.

But I feel like between writer's inability to see a positive future even in science fiction and corporate moneyball betting on a 5% higher return on investment with Establish Property rather than New Idea, we're only ever gonna get Star Trek: The Previous Generation. And that's really depressing.

@CactuarJoe I'm still grumpy about the gorn

@xerozohar YEAH i just read about that like COME ON if you're gonna re-tread shit over again at least LEARN SOMETHING god

@CactuarJoe nah they gotta turn em into unredeemable xenomorph ripoffs. That's Trek (tm). *Sigh*

@CactuarJoe also I will die on the hill that disco s4 is some of the best Trek ever made.

But nah people still gotta whinge about the Klingons.