The curse(?) of small universe syndrome

[Tosk]

And don't even get me started on Picard season 3. Now, to be clear, I love Picard season 3 and I am a big defender of it, even though I know there are many detractors here. However, the absurdity of the idea that for Frontier Day literally the entirety of Starfleet was supposed to assemble at Earth is so absurd as to make sex with your grandmother's candle ghost seem reasonable. Imagine if the United States military said that on July 4th this year, literally our entire military was to leave everywhere else on the planet and just hang out in Washington, DC for a parade. Good grief.

And they intentionally link the fleet under the control of a program (in the works for decades), despite the fact that they had TWO huge problems with linked ships less than twenty years earlier? (Once in Lower Decks, and once in Prodigy.)

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

And they intentionally link the fleet under the control of a program (in the works for decades), despite the fact that they had TWO huge problems with linked ships less than twenty years earlier? (Once in Lower Decks, and once in Prodigy.)

Indeed, seems the lesson wasn't learnt the first time around

 

[fireproof78]

Indeed, seems the lesson wasn't learnt the first time around

Starfleet shows it either overreacts or underreacts to problems. AI takes over in TOS? Meh, let's have an android able to lock down the systems!

 

[Smear-Gel]

And they intentionally link the fleet under the control of a program (in the works for decades), despite the fact that they had TWO huge problems with linked ships less than twenty years earlier? (Once in Lower Decks, and once in Prodigy.)

This one really gets me because it really feels like Picard was just not in communication with the other shows, I guess there was no real way to adjust the storyline because it was so fundamental but it's really distracting, not only in universe but out of universe too given it's doing something the last two season finales that aired already did. That supposed showrunner group chat seemed to fall by the wayside or something.

or that Starfleet can assemble a whole fleet of dozens of ships as easily and quickly as organizing a flash mob, as we saw in Prodigy and Lower Decks. Nobody understands how to write frontier narratives anymore.

To be fair to Lower Decks, I would assume ships that are all about assisting people within Federation space will have many that's not too far from core places doing stuff or just being on standby and I can buy a bunch are just close by Douglas Station which is positioned as a fairly central location (though it still felt too fast that so many showed up regardless, plus the fact that all the ones we know of in the show showed up is small universe too even if the whole point of the finale was the show celebrating it's own references). Though to be unfair to Lower Decks, that's my only real problem with wej duj, the premise is that they have a break because it's a long warp with nothing much to do, but I would assume long warps like that are a fairly common occurrence actually.

 

[Tosk]

That supposed showrunner group chat seemed to fall by the wayside or something.

Same goes for when DSC and PIC both had mech-tentacles coming out of rifts that apparently were not connected. Or when PIC and LDS both had Riker warping in to the rescue in their season finales.

 

[Christopher]

Though to be unfair to Lower Decks, that's my only real problem with wej duj, the premise is that they have a break because it's a long warp with nothing much to do, but I would assume long warps like that are a fairly common occurrence actually.

I had the same issue. Most of a starship's time should be spent on travel between star systems. Even aside from the logic of travel time, the crew would need time to recover physically and mentally from all the dangerous, traumatic situations they face.