As a viewer I’d love to have (more than) twice the amount of episodes. Knowing the reality of TV/film production though - it would come at a cost of quality. We’d see filler episodes, we’d have much less elaborate sets, plotlines…

I think quality is better than quantity in most cases.

What I mean is not the comedy episodes, but general demeanor of characters. Lots of little silly quirks that are more common in sitcom characters than navy/explorers that the federation is.

Personally I love it.

As a fellow GenX I could not agree more. I was absolutely hyped when Trek returned to cinemas only to get increasingly disappointed by a “star wars reboot proof of concept” approach to the movies.

When Discovery came around I was all in, but soon it turned into a shooting gallery pew pew show and became the first Trek show I abandoned mid-way.

Picard was a confusing mess where they made friends with Borg only to fight Borg next season… and then ended to the crowd’s applause because showrunners drowned it in memberberries.

Strange New Worlds is about discoveries and relationships and science. It’s goofier than TOS or TNG but in a nice, friendly way. It does not try to be edgy or shocking - it feels fresh and engaging, just like TNG, DS9 and VOY felt when they were first broadcast.

I guess we’re just about to wrap up the second season, so it may be too early to call - but SNW is way on the way to becoming my favorite Trek, not just of the modern era but of all time.

I think Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek show made so far. Every season they seem to have 9 amazing episodes and one so cringe I end up fast forwarding through the whole thing. This musical one was the low point of the season and the series, just like that word fantasy ones they did in season 1.

Bleh.

Yup, but I’m getting very strong Google+ vibes…

No matter how small and quiet it gets here, I like it better than what Reddit has become.

Yes! I think we have many communities that are either:

• way too specific
• carbon copies of identical topic on another instance

Oh I don’t mind at all. I liked it here. I think it only bugs me when statistics reporting is contingent on good news.

Is this a reported news, or a speculation? Really curious, before I start going around, repeating it.

Not sure. I wasn’t able to pull the link to a post inside Jarboa, and ended up opening the thread in browser, getting the link there, then making reply also via browser.

Maybe there is a better syntax for internal Lemmy links, other than https?

I was planning to start a petition post, but wasn’t sure where would be the right place to post it.

Edit: Someone did already! https://lemmy.world/post/1125293

Average person does not understand why privacy is important. They were lucky enough not to (yet) experience repression, censorship or surveillance and often throw banal one liners like I’ve got nothing to hide.

It’s only once you lived a while with someone (person or an institution) watching your every step you realize how it definitely changes you. You decide not to state your opinion, not to raise your hand, not to make the choice you would of you were truly free.

Same goes for welcoming your data against you… But you’re on fediverse. I’m packing to the choir here.