true, but I don't get the same charm from discovery or picard that I get with the other series (including enterprise). I think they're good shows, but bad star treks. I would agree that the xindi timeline (season 3) of enterprise kinda sucks. I think they were trying to boost ratings, because the show originally aired on a bad channel, UPN, iirc. voyager was on there too, and they seemed to have ratings issues as well, so they introduced tna with seven of nine. I hate the character with a passion.
On principle, I didn't want to like Seven of Nine when she was introduced, but she quickly became one of my all-time favorite characters.
You know what really bugs me about Star Trek? They never make full use of their discoveries. Take the TNG episode 'Rascals' for example, where Picard and a few get de-aged in a transporter malfunction. They figure out how to reverse it at the end of the episode, but this also means you just figured out how to trigger this on and off at will. You turned the transporter into a fountain of youth. Never mentioned again. Nobody thinks to shave a few years off. I get it's because it's episodic and not everyone will see every episode so you have to have things self contained, but really? Nobody wants to even casually drop it into conversation here and there?
I think they just used the transporter in that episode to restore the missing pieces of their DNA, and thus their ages when their bodies were reconstituted, but it would take a lot more of a scientific understanding about the accident before it could be used on others. At the very least, the accident was a step forward for medical research regarding how to undo the damage caused by the aging process.
However, as it was portrayed in the episode, the only options might be kid or adult, with no wiggle room in-between. As we saw in the episode, each character who suffered the accident opted to return to adulthood. If it were me, I'd stay a kid and re-age gradually over time just for the added 20-30 years to my lifespan (in Guinan's case, hundreds more years).
Star Trek has also consistently shown people (and Androids) are generally less obsessed with their own mortalities and often embrace death as necessary for giving life meaning. Ignore the antagonists in the TNG movie Insurrection though.
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I love Star Trek, hence my pfp. I don't like prequel series and thought the writing of Picard was a bit off. I also quite enjoy The Orville, great parody.
Parts of Picard were great, while other parts felt off. I also completely forget about The Orville. It's a fantastic show. Between The Orville and Season 1 of Discovery, two shows I was watching at the same time, I preferred The Orville.
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