Was the show doing well at all? I appreciate that I might just be in my own little bubble, but I don’t know a single person that loves this show. Some people like it, but it’s always a milquetoast endorsement, like “It’s not bad” or “It seems like a good scifi series but it feels like Star Trek fan fiction”, etc.

I’m surprised they didn’t at least strongly suspect it was the end.

Especially when compared to Strange New Worlds, which is an, imo, amazing Star Trek series.