So apparently the new Picard series is going to be set 30 years after the movie Nemesis. It will also involve the ramifications of the collapse of the Romulan empire, presumably due to the events in the Prime universe shown in the reboot movie.

(becomes Doc Brown) But. Do. You. Know. What. This. Means?

It means...I'll need to rewatch Nemesis, my 2nd least favourite ST movie which I have watched only...once (gasp).

I know!

@quark On the other hand, I am extremely glad if this is true that we don't get another prequel

@elomatreb damn right. I love Discovery but we need to know what happens *after*. I've been just stuck here on the Promenade waiting for 30 years to find out.

@quark @elomatreb Really? Discovery started off okay, but half way through, I couldn't watch it without wanting you yell out, "SPORE DRIVE!!!!" The ending of season 1 made no sense and I later found out they rewrote the ending during the broadcast because of low ratings (which might explain why it's so bad). They're making the Klingon look they way they use to for season 2. Whole thing feels like a cluster farkel.

@djsumdog @quark It had its flaws but it's not like we aren't used to that

Having a more overarching story instead of very self-contained episodes is definitely a good thing for Trek though

@elomatreb @quark I can see that. DS9 tried a long story arc based around war. I think Discovery ran with that.

I know Star Trek has always been campy, but it's 2018 and I think more effort could have been put into the writing. BattleStar and Expanse showed this believable gritty complexity, and they kinda tried in Discovery, but the way it was written kinda took me out of the story. I'm probably just being too critical ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@djsumdog @elomatreb I like the writing, but there is only so much grit they can jam in and still be star trek. (agree though that The Expanse is amazing) I heard that they have reasons for all the apparent variations from former cannon that they will explain eventually.