TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Yeah nah, i've been watching DIS, PIC and new starting to watch SNW, and they are all side by side considerably worse in the writing department. SNW being markedly better but still nowhere near TNG/VOY/DS9/ENT. Sure they had a few stinkers that made little sense, but they also had 24 episodes a season, the production budget of a mildly succesful youtuber and the shit they dared to tackle social justice was out of this world, considering the time.

Even episodes i liked alot on SNW, such as the timetravel ep in S2, was wisely in the older shows generally a two parter. But even with time constraints (no pun intended) this was probably the worst time travel episode i've seen, and these are generally slam dunks. I like that SNW tackles some actual "morals of the story" which is quite different and i like that. But even at its peak new trek just doesnt come close.

I think Andor and strangely enough The Orville has shown what franchise scifi could be. That the old and new concepts work if the cast, crew, producers and especially the writers take the subject matter seriously when its important. And not just "phoney'ing it in" best example, the pilot. Where a prewarp civ has developed "warpboms" from an observation of a battle, and that is threatening to ....wait, what? How dont have nuclear weapons? Apparently not, so how can they understand warpphysics if they have not yet even discovered relativity? It makes no sense. Then in the same episode Pike gives a monologue to the entire planets population and injects personal drama stuff in it that these people couldnt possibly know about. As a mid season filler episode, it would have been servicable at best, but that was the freaking pilot.

I love startrek, but not at all cost. Especially since we can make better and smarter television. For fucks sake i want to be challenged, perhaps also in my set morals. I want to feel like a dumb kid again. Andor and Orville managed to do that. But startrek is being neglected and due to the atrocious writing, the message they do want to send is getting corrupted.