The federation changed forever on the day the Enterprise discovered the Planet of Chocolate Air

Only the Doctor was sentient

I think it’s fine if they act like highschoolers in a show for highschoolers. It just means that’s not a show that’s for me.

I think you’re selling DS9’s progressiveness short. The federation is portrayed as less progressive, but the message of the show itself is far more progressive than the norm; if anything, it makes the federation standins for moderate/centrist/liberals and calls them out for not being left enough.

Well, the goal of rent seeking is to collect money, without giving any products or services in return. And without a product, you don’t need a Product team.

Disco lost me when I got to the episode where everyone is going to die unless the main character cAn tAlK tO a bOy aT tHe dAnCe!

Lower Decks was fun though. And I’ve watched like, 1 episode of SNW but it was a good pilot. Haven’t plumbed the depths of the rest of nutrek yet.

I was too lazy to make it but I was thinking earlier today of doing a “I hate nutrek because it’s derivative and centrist, you hate it because you are a nazi, we are not the same” meme. (Not that I’m calling you a nazi, this was just an idea I had, not directed at you)

Yes

Ohhhh they hate nutrek, got it.

Some have figured out how to eliminate Product. It’s called rent-seeking behavior or neo-feudalism. The short version is you organize society such that everyone is required to give you all their money all the time or die. See for example the health insurance industry.

People are asking for RICK BERMAN back!? Is this a mirrorverse thing?

Nah, no one here likes that show.

Lets be real here, Mutiny is like a 200-level course at the Academy

Understandably so, because some vulcans also lie constantly and claim they don’t experience those emotions.

Disgusting. Content like this should be banned from the internet!

The demon in question of course being the overwhelming and all-consuming desire to smooch a buff lizard man.

And free speech was never absolute. Forget yelling fire in a crowded etc, no sane person thinks that you should be allowed to commit fraud, for example.

The answer to #4 is “Well then you don’t have to have any” and tbh #3 sounds like a self-fixing problem and the solution to all 4.

It’s darn near negligible now, but any company that leaves that $.01 on the table will eventually get eaten alive by a company that didn’t.

It’s also some good foreshadowing for stuff we don’t find out until literally the last episode.