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Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed Discovery and hope you do. It took some big swings and not all of them were hits, maybe even a minority of them were, but I respect the desire to do something new and push the franchise forward and it has some legitimately good stuff.

I would probably pay $80/month for 1 service that had everything guaranteed with no problems.

You’re describing cable, and for years we begged for a la carte options to free us from cable packages. I can’t fathom going back to paying $80/month for a bunch of crap I’ll never watch when I can jump around for a third of that. I’ll never argue that what we have is the best solution, but it’s a damn sight better than where we came from, at least from a consumer perspective. It perhaps peaked when Netflix was the only game in town with both physical and streaming to get me everything I could ever want for $20/month, but 8 streaming services is still better than shelling out for a cable package.

If you just want the gameplay, Unfathomable from FFG is essentially a clone of BSG in an Lovecraftian setting. Not really what you are looking for, I suspect, but it’s probably the closest we’ll get to a reprint.

The biggest problem with openness is that anyone can come through the door.

There’s nothing stopping them from setting up a stealth instance and doing this now, right? Who’s to say any instance isn’t already being run by Facebook for data mining?