long lost twins/clones? check
surprise pregnancies? check
"dead" characters returning? check
Fair. I used to tell friends who were really into Sons of Anarchy that it was just a soap opera for dude bros and they got really upset about it.
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.
Yeah except when they are at warp speed then it’s a soap opera in sub space
SciFi soap opera with allegorical plots is pretty accurate. The best moments in soaps is when they do weird shit that's fantasy/sci-fi adjacent from what I've heard anyway.
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