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> I feel a lot has to do with the technology that's available; in 1966 when Star Trek aired you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives to lead.

True. And it's true that times have changed, but I really miss a good episodic Trek where you can simply tune in and out. Sure, we can stream episodes and guarantee that we've seen them all in order, but... my gosh I still have a life to lead, and I can't remember everything in your plot just for the sake of it. I'm hoping SNW is going that way, but I'm unsure.

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I'd also like to see a "short story collection" again; which is really what the episodic format is. But realistically, I'm not holding out much hope for "Star Trek" in general. One of the great things The Next Generation did was jump ahead 75 years or so to, well, the next generation. This means you have the freedom to do your own thing while still building on what came before. In the last decade it's been going over the same characters again and again and again.

It's a busy franchise. They're doing a lot of reboot, but also a lot of new stuff. Lower Decks is actually excellent Star Trek. Prodigy and Discovery are also new directions for the franchise.

They all get a boost from explicitly connecting to the existing characters, but some of the new characters have staying power. The animated format is really good for the Trek vision of a diverse galaxy.

Lower Decks is hands down my favorite of the new Star Trek shows. As for the episodic collection, Strange New Worlds is somewhat trying to return to it. As was The Orville!

+1 on Lower Decks.

Also, Picard Season 1 and 3 have been decent. (Seriously, skip season 2)

I like all three, but each is a kind of long movie, not episodic TV. SNW and LD are doing episodic well (LD, obviously, with a somewhat unusual tone for Trek; SNW more classic.)

I just finished season 2, and I liked it better than s1. S1 would often make me angry. Anyway, all three seasons are very different.

I made it to Episode 4 of Season 2 and then literally couldn't watch more. The dialog was so disconnected from the characters.

Season 3 feels like a return to characters speaking with internal consistency.

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