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It’s AWS. I still receive an invoice for $0 every month despite not having used the service for nearly 20 years. SNAFU.

Jump where? The alternatives currently require a small selection of hardware; are expensive; don’t offer the same level of service; or all the above.

Does that mean you’re a fan of Threshold? Cracking Warp 10 is a sci-fi perform, no? 🤣

Undiscovered Country was considered too militant by Roddenberry. IIRC Nimoy agreed, but only decades later.

The problem for Star Trek is that utopias are hard to write (they’re considered boring or to cerebral for TV) and are usually reliant on external forces for their conflict. TOS was full of episodes where ‘the other’ upset the utopian balance. While I love/prefer TOS, younger audiences tend to find the episodes unsatisfying, even twee.

Since TNG, conflict has come more and more from within Star Fleet/Federation rather than the monster/planet of the week. That inevitably leads down a darker/dystopian path.