This is a really good take. I have enjoyed the serialized shows -but they are a juggernaut of emotion and intensity to watch. You tend to watch them once, and it’s a fairly wild ride, but then it’s done. I suspect that I will be re-watching episodes of SNW and lower decks for years to come, as I have for TOS and TNG. That’s how Trek wormed it’s way into my brain in the first place.
The great thing about the fediverse is that you can rage-quit 100 different instances!
I think watching all those hours may actually change your brain wiring. Hopefully for the better.
I couldn’t really tolerate the animated show, or Babylon 5. But everything else has passed through these neurons at one time or another. Fortunately, it’s been so many years, I sometimes come across an episode I can’t remember and it’s like getting a new one.
Strange new worlds is amazing. It feels actually true to TOS, without just being nostalgic. I feel like Gene Roddenberry would be so happy to see it, and recognize it as his universe far more than any of the other 21st century trek.
Star Trek discussion /usually/ tends toward anything new being bad, and always has. SNW and lower decks are exceptions because they do so much fan service and return to a more classic Trek format. Discovery was groundbreaking in a way that I’m sure Roddenberry would have enjoyed, but groundbreaking also implies jarring change and throwing away things that work for experiments that sometimes don’t.