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And then not a single fucking word about Discovery. No news about the new season despite the writers strike preventing the cast from promoting the show. No shots. No celebration. No fucking nothing.

I'll give them a mild defense here - they did discuss Discovery, albeit briefly:

“We have finished it. It will be airing early next year. It’s an incredibly satisfying ending to a show that is so near and dear to my heart. Sonequa Martin-Green gave the performance of her life. I think you guys are going to love it.”

It's very likely that they planned this panel to be non-WGA in the event that the writers' strike hadn't ended by the time of the convention, which would explain why the only panelist of note, besides Kurtzman himself, was Mike McMahan.

Yeah, that's frustrating. I hope they step up and promote the last season like they've said they will. I feel like their publicity efforts have really been all over the map.

Edit:

Case in point, like what the heck is this whole Kid Cudi brand collab stuff? I've seen several teaser sort of things about it, and I have no idea what it is or who it's supposed to be for. This suggests to me that it's aimed at younger audiences, but is Kid Cudi even relevant to them? Dude's my age, and I'm only really familiar with him from his time on Comedy Bang! Bang!

I will add to that a Star Trek day without any Discovery celebration.

DIS got a lot better in the later seasons but if you don't like any of the new shows, I doubt it's your cup of tea either. It's sad to hear this since I basically love old and new trek alike but each to their own. Some shows tried to catch the old spirit (like SNW) but you simply can't produce an old episode now. I personally like it best when they explore new topics and new times but hopefully they will make a show for fans like you, too!

The Prodigy crew don't feel like a proper Starfleet crew, and that's because they're literally children. They are 100% kids with the potential and the drive to grow into great Starfleet officers, and the show is fundamentally about that fact.

Strange New Worlds was interesting at first, but also with characters that did not feel like the professional Star Fleet personal I was used to.

SNW is set before TOS; of course they're not going to be as professional as TNG, it was the early days. It compares well with TOS, but still isn't without its flaws (eg musical episode).

Discovery was indeed crap (in my opinion), it's just a modern generic SciFi show with Star Trek branding. Lower Decks is only meant to be a bit of fun fan service, it turns the Starfleet goodie two shoes-ness up to 11, while pulling back on professionalism to turn it into a workplace comedy. I get the feeling you won't like Prodigy either, it's very much child oriented.

However I think you should reconsider your expectations. We're not going to get another TNG 30 years after that show, expecting something the same but new is only going to be disappointing. I'd recommended giving SNW another go, and also maybe catching up with Lower Decks ahead of the SNW crossover episode.

Paramount+ is still the entity that decided to cancel the series and remove it from their platform less than a year after advertising themselves as being the home to "Every Series. Every Episode."

Okay, but Paramount+ doesn't directly produce any of the shows.

Not just accounting purposes. The commissioning producers are totally separate, decision making is largely devolved down to the separate channels to encourage audience awareness.

If you think that's rough, try watching CBS Sunday Morning.
I swear to god, that free show that airs on broadcast TV, must be one of the hardest currently running shows to stream.

Well, that & "Shaka Ilembe"

Edit: I say Sunday Morning is hard to stream, because the CBS streaming app repeatedly fails to load the right segment after a commercial break, starting the show over at the beginning; if you skip forward from there, it shows another commercial break after you try to seek. Our last viewing of this 90-minute show, took 3.5 hours.

That would be great, but unfortunately they’re not going to produce new Trek for direct to physical media.