The fixation on the TOS Era by the suits hurt trek bad. The nostalgia for that Era just ain't that strong in a time period where the people watching might be the grandchildren or even great grand children of the tos generation

Agreed. They could start simply bu giving us movies we WANT to see. No one in the audience wanted s31 to start with. And the idea of s31 is best in the shadows. Something the discovery writers forgot

the reason anakin continued to serve was because he'd lost EVERYTHING ELSE, refusing to serve... he'd lose the few tiny morals he had left. which wasn't something he could do.

Having played it, I'd say those who argue that it has sort of a samey structure aren't wrong. the People making these criqutes are COD etc players but people saying "... ya know after so long (Bethesda's last "big tent pole single player RPG" was Fallout 4, a november 2015 release, meaning Starfield came out about 9 years later) I think there's a feel that Bethesda didn't quite innovate eneugh with this title, I'm literally playing starfield as I type this and am ENJOYING it, I also don't nesscarily see more people playing Skyrim as that big a deal since Skyrim is an old old game that can run on just about anything, and starfield has some pretty hefty requirements.

That said, Starfield feels like a throwback in some ways, the age when people would accept "open world, OR deep complex story, one or the other" basicly vanished when witcher 3 proved "both" could be done. Bethesda does need to up it's writing. this is absolutely true

Well it's not like kids can afford a comic book these days. 5 bucks for 14 pages comics stopped being about affordable reading material for kids. Now they're aimed at collectors. of course there are a lot less collectors then kids so no wonder sales are down