I don't understand some people

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Idk, I think Discovery just sucks.
Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks kick ass, though.
Edit: Discovery and Picard. Picard sucks ass, too. I just cannot force myself further than episode two.
- I just gave picard another go and knocked it off but jeeeeeesus. So much nonsensical bullshit and how can you faff about so much with so few episodes.
  
  Yeah, I also absolutely hate the lighting. Everything is either way too dark or way too bright or somehow both at the same time. I remember seeing a trailer for one of the later seasons and the federation ships seem like they'd super uncomfortable to be on.
- I think the difference is because Disco and Picard are serialized while SNW and LD are episodic.
  On serialized Trek, if the writers get a bug up their asses to do a mirror universe storyline or a section 31 storyline, you're stuck with that tedious bullshit for at least half a season. If episodic Trek has a stinkburger episode that everyone mocks for decades (Sub Rosa), the next week can give you a premise so beloved that they base a whole series on it (Lower Decks).
  Episodic Trek can take more risks. I kinda miss the longer seasons for the same reason.
  
  Yes, upon rewatching TNG, I realized that I might actually like less than half of the stories that much, but that still leaves so many stories I do like.
  If I was inclined to like a discovery story to start with, it will wear out its welcome pretty soon because they drag it out so long.
- Picard sucks
  But how can this be? They are shoving so much fan service down your throat.
  
  As we all know, after 2 bad seasons, fan service makes good show!
- That's fair.
  Try Picard season three though, that was way better than seasons 1&2. :⁠-⁠)
  
  No it wasn't
  
  I always understood that particular emoticon to mean the same thing as /s. Or mom emailed me..in 1997
- I liked the first few minutes of Picard but nothing after.
- Meh, there were a few times where the comedy could have probably taken more of a backseat than it did, but the comedy didn't overall bother me that much. I did like that it was a more unpolished take on what life in Starfleet is like, and the comedy was the vehicle that that view was delivered through. I mean, take Shax and T'ana making it super uncomfortable to be roomed close to the holodecks; realistically, who isn't going to get up to some freaky shit with tech like that? The live action shows kinda dance around it, but I like that Lower Decks was able to address it outright because it's allowed to take itself less seriously.
  
  theres a time and place for comedy but for a scifi should be kept to a minimum.
  I think of all things The Orville demonstrates that on both sides - for a show whose premise is "Seth MacFarlane wants to be a TNG-era Star Trek captain" you can see more of his comedy at the start than afterward, presumably because it needed to be a Seth MacFarlane comedy to get funded and then not so much once the funding was secure.
  
  The humour in The Orville was shockingly weak, but that doesn’t speak to sci-fi in general. Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Galaxy Quest, Spaceballs, and Futurama are all great space based comedies.

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