ok not to say you SHOULDN'T go on a long passionate rant about a scifi series you love but have mixed feelings about (look at my post history and i have 2 in the last couple hours), but i would like to again state that i am watching tng for the first time, and have in fact never watched star trek outside this before (as i think i mentioned in the og version of the post before getting rid of that to say what the episode i liked was)

also when i say home soil is the platonic ideal of a solid star trek episode i mean 2 things. first that it's a very solid 7/10, and second that it's exactly what i expected going into star trek. looking forwards to understanding more about what you're talking about, i've heard nothing but good things about lower decks!