I feel like his whole career has been a grift to get into a position where he could write star trek episodes, only he doesn't work for cbs so it's the Orville instead.
And I'm so thankful it exists otherwise all this generation would have is the Abrams-and-co-verse which is :kombucha-disgust: :agony-consuming: :chumpsky: 🤢🤮🤮🤮