Hmmm..... I don't recall the "Lower Decks" episode of TNG featuring loud, 20-something, characters that behaved and spoke like contemporary 20-somethings and whom you couldn't believe went through several years of intense training after passing several tests to make sure they had the mental capacity to do the job.
1. Only three of the characters are in their 20s. The Engineer, the Doctor, the CO, and the old guy who I think is Security certainly aren't in their 20s. The black guy with cybernetics on his face is probably in his 30s or 40s (if I had to guess). Only the guy with purple hair, the green girl, and the younger black woman are in their 20s. So not even half the characters are 20-somethings.
2. You're a fan of
The Orville. "But
The Orville is a comedy!" So is this. I can enjoy LD but also disregard it.
3. The showrunner has been said in this thread to be a huge TNG Fan. So maybe we're getting a distorted view from the trailer. Again, I point out
The Orville. What the trailer focused on for
The Orville and what the show actually is are two different things. It might be the same case here.
4. Not every show is
Dragnet. "Just the facts, ma'am." (And I've seen a lot of
Dragnet, and listened in the case of the radio version, so I'm actually familiar with the various incarnations of the show beyond the pop-culture references). Not every show is
Adam-12 either.
5. To get my job at a public access station, I went through college, internships, and freelanced for several years before landing it. My co-workers also went through a lot of training. It's not Starfleet, but years of training is still years of training, and it doesn't turn everyone into a bunch of stiffs.
But, if you want to stick with the military, I know several people who are in the army or were in the army. I even know someone who was in the marines. They're not stiffs either. In fact, they're the opposite. They're some of the liveliest people I know. A few of them are actually a little bit
too lively...
