@punkonbuslives It is definitely feeling like 5 years time TV is going to be unwatchable, the amount of programs I can't watch anymore because of how they have changed, or how my perception of the subject matter has changed in relation to what the US really is right now, mostly affecting procedural programs that I watch, where I am struggling to suspend disbelief due to the chasm created by the maga reality...

@punkonbuslives I hate them.

@punkonbuslives look forward to Starship Troopers if it were made by John Milius instead of Paul Verhoeven

@punkonbuslives Oh no, that's such a shame. I really like the series so far, and am looking forward to season 2! So disappointing to think that will be the end! 😔

@punkonbuslives I hope they just let it end. The Kelvin timeline feature films are horrible shite, Picard was absolutely forgettable (except perhaps for the first season), Lower Decks was amazing but ended too soon. Strange New Worlds might have enough steam for another two or three seasons, but eventually Pike must turn into the vegetable he is in TOS. Maybe it's time to just let it all end. Most of the stories are quite timeless, one can watch them again and again decades later, the entire universe is quite dense, everything is filled with lore and canon so that all you can do is fill in the rapidly shrinking blank spaces. Running away from that into the far future is what Discovery attempted and Starfleet Academy continued, but it doesn't seem to work as good as some may have hoped.
Instead of desperately trying to keep the franchise running, maybe it should just stand as it is. Otherwise, we might see it utterly ruined by more and more badly written stories, by authors and producers moving further and further away from Roddenberry's original concept. Take the scene in SNW when the crew suddenly starts praying -- Roddenberry would never have allowed something like that, 23rd century humankind is far too advanced for things like religion, that's for species who haven't outgrown it yet (like the Bajorans who insist on worshipping 4D beings living in a wormhole).