Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoStar Trek is just a soap opera in spacemessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareStar Trek is just a soap opera in spaceDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareHarryLime [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoAt least before Discovery, every episode was a self-contained story with the occasional two-parter so it doesn’t technically qualify as a soap opera
minus-squareTrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoDS9 introduced longer arcs, but every episode within an arc had A and B plots that got wound up by the end of the episode.
At least before Discovery, every episode was a self-contained story with the occasional two-parter so it doesn’t technically qualify as a soap opera
DS9 introduced longer arcs, but every episode within an arc had A and B plots that got wound up by the end of the episode.