I’d say Westworld and Stranger Things comes to mind because I remember reading in season three the original plan was for that man and woman at the ice cream place to get together but they decided to make her gay for no reason. In a show that’s an homage to the 80s a reformed jock with a nerdy girl is a perfect couple.
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I'm going to get downvoted for this, I know it, but...
Given all the hatred for it here, and since I used to be a big Trek fan, I decided to watch Star Trek: Lower Decks a couple of years ago to give it a fair assessment.
I agree the first two episodes were total crap.
However, from episode 3 onward...I found myself greatly enjoying it. It helped that in episode 4, Mariner actually started to suffer for her decisions, and that was fun to watch.
I ended up watching all 30 episodes from the first three seasons, since that was all that was up at the time. While I agreed it wasn't as good as TNG, DS9 or even Voyager, I thought it was an entertaining self-parody of Trek that still largely held true to the idea of the show.
But at that point, I had to cut Paramount Plus to save some money, among other measures. I haven't watched an episode since.
And given all I've read here about the woke mind virus that infected the show starting in season 4, it looks like I got out at the absolutely perfect time.
I don’t watch Nutrek but I’ve heard people say good things about Lower Decks. Ever since that TNG episode I’ve wanted a series about the lower ranking people on the ship. I’d prefer live action and more serious. A book series would be nice
I think in real life you would have lower ranks going on all those away missions. On some missions they'd have the three highest ranks off ship. I got why they did it for tv, but it's silly.
Captain Picard was also a diplomat, the Enterprise's 5-year-mission was to "seek out new life and new civilizations", so it made sense for him to go on away missions about first contact or xeno-diplomacy in general. Your diplomat goes with a contingent of guards and aides.
But that's only about half the overall missions that they go on.
Sure but even Riker would mention to Picard, you can't go on away missions as much as you do.