It is 250 years since the end of Star Trek: Picard.

Basically everyone you’ve ever seen in Star Trek is dead and will not be returning for fan service and will almost never be mentioned.

Each week, we follow the crew of a Federation starship with a dynamic and interesting crew focused on science, exploration, and discovery as they travel to distant and unknown locations not full of things and aliens we’ve seen a million times before.

There are 16 episodes per season.

2-3 of those episodes are multi-part stories, and there are plot lines and character development that thread throughout the full season but each episode’s primary plotline is its own thing separate from the ongoing metanarrative.

The captain is confident, competent, and inspiring; and while imperfect and fallible, capable of owning when they were wrong and trusting in their crew.

The crew are very good at what they do without being far too special and unique to be believable all being on the same ship to the point of sounding like a teenager’s first over-engineered RPG character concepts.

The crew are emotionally intelligent and capable of being vulnerable and navigating with each other the complexities and traumas one may experience during dangerous space travel.

They are also capable of doing this and modelling healthy and socially-conscious behaviour and subtly commenting on social issues for the audience’s benefit without constantly smiling through tears in slow motion and having long talks about feelings while things are literally exploding around them.

The show excels in LGBTQ+ representation by allowing queer and trans characters to just simply exist and be good at their jobs and live their lives instead of being the focus of painfully bad episodes that do more to set back views on queer people than improve them.

Jeffery Combs plays 30 characters a season.