Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 8 months agoStar Trek is just a soap opera in spacemessage-squaremessage-square13 fedilinkarrow-up118
arrow-up118message-squareStar Trek is just a soap opera in spaceDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 8 months agomessage-square13 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareHarryLime [any]hexbear6·8 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 link
minus-squareTrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]hexbear2·8 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. link
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.