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Yeah, definitely not. Picard and Discovery were very serialised, as were the later seasons of DS9, but outside of those you can pretty much dip your toe in to almost any episode and not worry about getting sucked into a whole arc. It's probably best to keep a low-commitment mindset and skip around a bit until something really works for you.

Since you've already watched the relevant parts of Discovery, I'd recommend SNW. It spins off directly from Disco season 2, but it's more episodic and has a wider tonal range. Some episodes are dark and serious, some are plain goofy. Overall you'll find it much more light hearted and adventurous than Disco.

Otherwise, I'm a big supporter of starting at the beginning. Give a few episodes of TOS a try. Yes, it's a product of it's time, but it still holds up as great TV. It's also one of the few Trek shows that really hits the ground running quality wise - the '90s series tend to take a few seasons to rev up.

What a good idear!

Agreed, well placed and executed action or sex scenes can be used to great effect. They are also equally capable of adding nothing but wasted time. My point is that bad action scenes have been wasting plenty of time in movies lately, so a desire for tight films with no fat is definitely not the cause for the comparative dearth of sex scenes.

This is at least as true of action scenes, and it doesn't stop them from bloating the run time of 90% of the movies coming out today.

Maybe not literally, but the season 3 episode where Discovery arrived in the future went hard on the western vibes. I think they even included swinging saloon doors at one point.

Perhaps http://meninhats.com?

I grew up with this variation on my C64. Good times. https://gaming.trekcore.com/startrekc64-1/

I've also come across this mashup with 25th Anniversary, which looks like great fun: https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th

Nah, Picard was the gross one. He made the decision to date a subordinate in Lessons, and it ended with the woman in question transferring to another ship.

Kirk pointedly kept it in his pants when it came to the women under his command (unless he was under the influence of an alien virus, or artificial memories, or personality altering transporter accident…)

At a very basic level, the concept could work - jump into the future to show how the crew's adventures are remembered. Babylon 5 succeeded at the same kind of idea for their excellent Season 4 finale.

But B5 showed that the characters left a profound and enduring legacy. In These Are The Voyages, Riker consumes the story of Trip's death like it's a mildly engaging episode of a daytime soap - between the scenes of a better episode that works much better without the addition. It's just the worst execution you could imagine.