ThunderclapSasquatch

I don't like earlt Discovery because it feels wrong in ways that make me wonder if it wasn't originally a non Star Trek project that got adapted and they killed the captainI liked (not that asshole). I haven't cracked into Picard yet though.

Counterpoint, I am on your roof singing

Discovery has a meh intro that cant seem to build to something, SNW is a goddamn banger, Lower Decks has a pretty TNG/Voy sounding one

SNW and the best of Lower Decks is right there

Hidden aspect of Klingon biology, they are seahorses

The cut off is if the clone is aware, long as it's a vegetable in a tube you can do whatever

Mushroom warp invalidates warp drive as a travel method, that's a fundamental part of the setting here

Stellaris console is surprisingly good UI wise actually

That massive number of resources, planets, pops, fleets, and everything else is not only understandable but feels magnificent when you have them dancing to your tune. Also my brother in SpongeBob, you literally got mad at a tutorial. On a more serious and hopefully helpful note, the game grows on you like a fungus. It's really not much worse than Civ. Energy is gold, Minerals and Alloys are effectively Production, Unity is Culture (and works almost identically to Civ V, you can't use it to outright win is all) and the scinces are well Science. As for all the others, my man those are your Strategic and Luxury resources. But that's only where the fun starts, the real madness is civ and species generation. I once made space orbital dwelling, advanced robotics having, xenophobic, pacifists that relied on slave labor stolen from nations that declared war on my seemingly defenseless empire. I also made the Megachurch of Dewy, Cheatham and Howe.

Edit: I almost forgot the best terrible civ I made, OnlyStreams.

SNW is amazing Trek I fully expected to have mixed feelings about. I especially love the remixed versions of some of the music, like that bit of the TOS theme coming through as it trails off

Throwing women would also work, blunt force trauma does not discriminate, it only mushes