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Yeah, I understand not every show can last, but it became such a pattern with Netflix that it seemed like there was no point getting invested in anything new. If it wasn’t a Stranger Things level hit, it was guaranteed to be prematurely punted.

Maybe elsewhere - in Toronto, The Sun is just a piece of trash. Definitely down with calling that one out.

Postmedia owns a lot of Canadian papers listed at that link, but Toronto Star isn't among them.

I left Netflix when they canceled Santa Clarita Diet and never looked back.

This and a couple other comments in this thread point to an aspect of Star Trek’s world building that hasn’t sat right with me for a long time. It’s supposed to be an utopianistic, egalitarian future. There’s no scarcity or need on Earth so everyone is supposed to be here because they want to be, out of a love of exploration and scientific advancement. So why is there such a disparity in treatment based on rank? Why does an ensign get stuck with a bunk in a hallway while Captain Picard gets a cushy executive suite? O'Brien at least had real quarters to raise his family in, but they were a comparative closet next to the bachelor Captain's. Doesn't seem right to me.

All to say that, in my mind, if an ensign needs to stick to a manner of dress, so should an officer of rank. They're all part of the same fleet and deserving of the same respect.

I don’t how you can get any vibes out of this interview. I’m getting “they’re happy to be working, but Canada is cold.”

I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.

But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.

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.

nuTrek has been pretty great for me, overall. Prodigy never managed to win me over, though. I'm well out of its target audience, so that's no surprise.

I think your comment could reasonably apply to early Discovery and Picard, but not so much to the rest of nuTrek. It could equally apply to DS9 and Enterprise - but not so much to the rest oldTrek (Voyager might straddle the line).

I think it’s most accurate to say that Star Trek as a whole has generally shown alternating waves of reifying and challenging the utopian future concept. Overall that gives a message that a better society can be achieved, but the work of living up to that vision can never end. It works for me.

“And now the continuation” brings a real mix of feelings.

You seem to be underestimating my age.

Anyway, Spock/McCoy makes no sense to me. It’s Kirk/Spock that’s canon.