Bad stories reliably end in TNG. Usually, they’re done after a single runtime. In Discovery, the awful plots smear across multiple episodes, if not entire seasons.
Big arcs can work in Star Trek, but they have to be good. Discovery is like if the writers decided to make Pen Pals into a 12-episode saga. If something doesn’t hit, it takes forever to rectify. Then, since they decided to start as a prequel, they did the star wars thing of irreparably tarnishing the stories that came before.
Seconded. My homelab is stable and I have nothing to contribute at the moment, but that doesn’t mean I’m not committed to staying the hell off of Reddit.