Sorry to hear about your disappointment in the new season. I’m still working my way through DS9 and hope to later start watching ENT … so I’ve got a lot of decent content to go through.

I was considering watching DISCO but I was sort of thinking what you said would happen would happen and it looks like it did. I’ll get to it done day just because it’s Star Trek but not any time soon.

I was worried that one of the developments of modern TV series especially on the digital platforms is to not build long running series because it doesn’t make them money. Audiences in general are lazy so the average viewer just wants to watch something they have no history to, know no background and is something that is just completely new. A long running series with five, six or more seasons is too much for someone who is getting into it from the start. Most new audience members will skip the long running series or ones with big fan bases and go watch some short running series they can watch from the start and end quickly.

I’m thinking this is what they did and will do to the new Trek shows from now on. They won’t last beyond a few seasons until they are just killed off. And if it’s a show with a large loyal fanbase, the best way to kill it is to sour the whole thing with bad writing and bad storytelling to just get everyone to stop watching it.