Yeah, my phone autocorrected from canon to cannon. That doesn't change the fact that it is not the same as serialization.

If you want evidence that fundamentally changing Lower Decks from a serialized to adventure-of-the-week show would piss people off, I obviously can't prove that, but funny enough, a show you brought up did try something like this: South Park. They tried serialization for a few seasons, which ended with the disastrously bad, "member berries," storyline. The final episode of that season is actually called The End of Serialization as We Know it.

Anyway, maybe you're right; maybe people want to watch Boimler whine about the captain not noticing him for 10 seasons. I doubt it though. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Either way, your comments are becoming increasingly weird and pedantic and I'm losing my patience for it, so I'm just gonna stop here before I say something I regret. Have a good one.