Seems like I'm pretty alone in this among online trek fans but I'm pretty ok with this season of snw being kinda dumb to be honest. It's not very tng, but I do think it's pretty close to a more silver age of sf sensibility that tos exemplified pretty well and that's the world the show is inevitably moving towards. I think it makes sense to bridge the tonal gap between "everyone scowls all the time" discovery and "sometimes someone's brain is in a jar or this planet is literally the town of tombstone" tos. Brilliant and strikingly dramatic episodes like City on the Edge of Forever were ultimately the exception not the rule in tos imo. I expect the final short season will be a lot more serious though. I think