Thankfully The Walking Dead had already started declining in quality before I ever started it. Been meaning to, but just never have. Probably unlikely I ever will at this point.

DS9 was, I believe, the first real "serialized" Trek aside from the occasional two-parters. You can watch it out of order for the first couple of seasons, but after the Dominion War plot picks up, yeah, you gotta watch them in order. Luckily I didn't see any of the TNG-era Trek until COVID so got to binge them in order as the gods wormhole aliens intended.

I'm the opposite. I loved ENT. Kinda had some heavy-handed post-9/11 plots which are really hard to watch today, but otherwise I liked the "how we got from there to here" and seeing the Trek Tech we take for granted either not exist yet or be highly experimental and dangerous. I get why people don't like it, but I can look past that easily enough. Plus, the last season is basically one long TOS love letter.

SG and Battlestar are both on my "will watch when I have time" list that's ever growing.

Good luck with the Expanse. Hope you enjoy it. There's a LOT happening in the first season, so you really gotta pay attention to the factions and locations. They don't really spell a lot of things out for you other than a short intro in the first episode. I just did my 3rd watch of it recently and picked up all kinds of details I never even came close to catching on my first watch.

I personally think it's as good as its reputation. It helps that it's adapted from a book series. I've only read the first three but the TV show definitely does them justice. Unlike Game of Thrones, there was still book material they hadn't adapted before they wrapped it up at the end of the sixth season. It didn't end on a cliffhanger, but it definitely left the door open to pick up with the arc it ended on. I haven't read that far into the book series yet but planning to...eventually.

Aside from the alien MacGuffin, it's a solid hard sci-fi series which I always appreciate. Love me some Star Trek, but stories that limit themselves to relatively near-future, plausible technology and obeying laws of physics, alien MacGuffin notwithstanding, really help sell it for me.

This is purely subjective, but the weakest season for me was the fourth which was the first one after Amazon revived it. Most of the conflict/plot was interpersonal. It wasn't bad at all, but felt like "something totally different" coming into it during a binge watch right after Season 3. It hit its stride again with the last two seasons, so it wasn't a letdown like GoT.

Well, the silver lining of being this radioactive is that I have a coin flip's chance of either developing the powers of Q or spending the rest of my life in the beep chair. Wish me luck!

Ah, the Nebula class. The butt of many of my jokes. Such as this one:

AFAIK, Mlmym is the only "old" reddit UI. I'm not sure if it's still maintained or not but the last commit was sometime last year.

Didn't know Alexandrite wasn't maintained anymore. I liked it.

Tesseract is sort-of like "new" reddit circa 2023 but without all the crap. It's Lemmy only.

Voyager is also pretty popular, but not my cup of tea.

Blorp is I think relatively new but looks really nice. Haven't played with it much.

I'm a bit lost beyond those, but you can check out https://lemmyapps.com/ for a mostly up to date directory.

I gotta give the showrunners credit. "Dinner Party" was both the most cringe-inducing episode as well as one of the best of the series. That's really hard to achieve.