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My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss because we havent watched any of the new shows yet.

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[–] StarServal@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That’s because SNW is traditional episodic Star Trek whereas Discovery and Picard are serialized series. Serialized series need to constantly escalate the tension and threats so you tend to get super serious action drama. Meanwhile, episodic series can get away with doing stuff like “how would the crew react to the entire ship turning pink?”

They both have their place in television, but Star Trek better lends itself to episodic format where you can have breaks to reset the tension.

[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey just so you know, the word you're after is "series", it's plural. "Series's" means either something belonging to the series, or "series is". :)

[–] StarServal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. I’ve made the necessary corrections.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

"Compensating." "What if it doesn't work?" "Reverse the polarity."

[–] VE3MAL@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 year ago

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.