It's a pity that, since STNG and DS9, Star Trek has devolved into nothing but space opera and indulgent character drama.

Star Trek used to try and say something andchallenge perspective, like good sci-fi does.

robby_w_g 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I like Strange New Worlds. It’s the closest thing we have to modern TNG and DS9

	▲	Loughla an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Strange new worlds definitely comes closest to scratching the nerd exploration/human experience itch. Every other star Trek has been just daytime soap opera but in spaaaaace. It's really sad. Or maybe I'm just older now and my glasses aren't as rose colored anymore. I don't know.

It could get a bit preachy, honestly.

	▲	qlte 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But also not unusually so by 80s/90s television standards (TNG). Back then writing on popular network TV shows could get away with beating the viewer over the head with a lesson/moral explicitly explained by a character with delivery about as subtle as an after school special. So a lofty Picard speech or whatever wouldn't stand out much from whatever else you'd see that night. DS9 is still pretty earnest but you can start to see the evolution of writing/viewer taste as you get closer to the 2000s (also the freedom to follow the formulaic episodic structure of network TV a bit less rigidly).
	▲	cbozeman 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That was a feature, not a bug.