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jonathankoren™@jonathankoren@sfba.social (2026-07-25 10:57:36)
@mookie SNW and LD are the best of the era. I like SNW, but it occasionally annoys me, however it annoys me less than DISCO. DISCO suffered from main character syndrome and Game of Thrones-itus due to its habit of killing off characters randomly.

 I never watched Academy. I doubt it deserves the hate it got, but I also don’t like that era. It’s just dumb and depressing, even though it’s basically what Gene Roddenberry’s notes laid out. (Those notes became Andromeda.)

I would like more stuff in the PIC era, and I was fine with a wounded and defeated Picard, because art should reflect the world, and that’s how it feels now. But again, it suffered from Game of Thrones-itus and too much fan service nostalgia.
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jonathankoren™@jonathankoren@sfba.social (2026-07-25 10:57:37)
Honestly, I think two things hurt modern Trek. First, streaming has only 8 episodes so they want to tell a season long story which forces a galaxy threatening treadmill. Trek made its legacy through stand alone episodes and the ensemble, and there just isn’t much space for that in a third of a traditional season. I will say that, SNW seems to have achieved that, but they also have a hefty amount of legacy characters. 

The other thing that hurts Trek (and Star Wars) is that they pay attention to the online discourse. Discourse that is dominated by absolute ignorant chuds. It would be nice if a producer would actually say, “why should anyone care what you think fuckwad?”

And that is why Andor — which has no Jedi, no Glup Shittos, “woke”, and has *gasp* screw and bricks (my absolute favorite actual complaint) — is the best Star Wars show in total.

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steve mookie kong@mookie@weredreaming.com (2026-07-25 13:34:20)
@jonathankoren@sfba.social

I really dislike streaming and it's short seasons (it's not just a Paramount problem). And whole season story arcs force two things that I truly dislike about TV nowadays. The first you mentioned "OMG THE WORLD/GALAXY IS ENDING" syndrome. The second is endemic to Netflix where they want 13 episodes of a full season story arc -- but most of the shows only have enough story to fill maybe six episodes. So we get a bunch of filler episodes that just drag the pacing of a season to a halt.

SNW does well with it's mostly episodic stories -- with some long running storylines.

Agreed on paying attention to online discourse.