The Orville had that in the first season or so, after that it went heavy into serialization. I dont think I even finished whatever the last season was because of it.

He steps down, then it’s Vance. If Vance steps down it’s Johnson. It doesn’t really get better from there.

and more No Man’s Sky

Speaking of highly overrated things…

Battlestar Galactica. Like a lot of the shows people have been mentioning, all it did was raise the stakes every episode. It didn’t feel like it was building anything meaningful, just building up to something.

The most meaningful example of this (spoilers for like a twenty year old show) for me was when they’re in the ship looking for water or whatever and the human cylon just ignores the indicator saying “Water here! Check here!” and the scene just. keeps. going. I swear it felt like half the episode.

Where’s that copypasta about Rick & Morty…

I miss when shows could just grow in the first season or two, and then you’d only get raising stakes two or three times a year (season finale/premier and sweeps). Otherwise they’re just stories.

These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.

I don’t recall Hegseth being any ballot I’ve used.

TNG, Devil’s Due

There was that one episode where they tried to save a planet from Satan. I dont think the planet was technically pre-warp, though, especially since there were federation scientists/engineers on the planet working with the population.

Weren’t they working against the prime directive? Otherwise they wouldn’t have beamed them back down after beaming them up. They had to trick the ferengi into leaving of their own accord… well the accord of the mob burning them in a pyre, but still.

Not nobody, just not the 85 million people who decided to fall asleep on election day.

Mean old caca heads, the lot of them.

And if you get rid of the board, the shareholders will appointment a new one. If you somehow get rid of all the shareholders, like-minded people will slot themselves into those positions.

The problems are systemic, not individual.

If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.