To me, there is no bad Star Trek.

And then everyone watching it (which, unlike what you might think from reading this thread, is actually millions of people) would get super pissed when it got cancelled in the middle of a storyline.

Section 31 speed walking!

The first several episodes of Orville I’ve described as “what if Star Trek had dick jokes and occasionally tapped the well of ex-wife jokes”… but yeah, I loved that too.

The first 3 LD episodes are pretty brutal if you’re not tuned into the frenetic pacing of something like Rick and Morty. I would not put Simpsons, Bobs, KOTH in the same zone. HOWEVER, it’s worth getting tuned into. And if you really want some great info, dig up the old site’s posts by /u/USSBurritoTruck (if they are still there) about Canon Connections especially in Lower Decks, because there’s a TON.

or just search “easter eggs in lower decks S1E4” or whatever. But USSBurritoTruck is the best.

… usually. But then they subvert that sometimes.

probably not, i would doubt that anyone actually makes any decisions based on any input from change dot org.

As far as Discovery and forward go, I’d honestly recommend order of release. I’m not going to feed you any “don’t watch this, do watch that”, I just want to say that various bits of lore are introduced in some series, are then referenced in later episodes of other series. All of the series are making references to each other now. So, I think you get the most of the lore references, if you watch them in release order.

That said, it probably doesn’t really matter – Most of the recent series are in distinctly different places and/or times. Discovery and SNW are the closest (to start) in time and space, and Discovery S2 directly feeds to SNW. Prodigy and Lower Decks are in a similar time space, but very far apart in the galaxy, and Picard starts the farthest ahead in the timeline, though Discovery will overtake it, and Picard also has flashbacks that take place probably close to the time of Lower Decks or Prodigy.

Soooooooooo… overall, probably doesn’t matter, but in my opinion, you get the most benefit of lore knowledge in release order.

getting his trombone polished, you say?

The one shot with all the torches going out, that the lighting was perfect for, and it looks amazing on TVs that have super great black, like an OLED.

The rest of that episode, they should’ve TURNED ON SOME DAMN LIGHTS

Aaaaaaaaack no mention of Jett in the description of Discovery? noooooooo

For sure. If this community stagnates, it will eventually die of attrition.

eh, it is what it is, and i’d say not really either. For now, probably nearly everyone that’s staying here is probably a contributing member, but if we continue building and promoting this community, then it will get to a sizeable number of lurkers. As long as we don’t attract bad actors, or bad actors are dealt with swiftly, it’s all good.

Splinter the community, I’m going to stay with the people who went through the mess of setting up a new place that isn’t beholden to Reddit. It may be forever smaller, but of the 600,000 subscribers, how many of them contribute?