Star Trek: Discovery is a riff on the series created by Gene Roddenberry.
 Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer spacea so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale
=== Picard (2020-2023) ===Star Trek: Picard, like Discovery, is a serialized drama created for CBS All Access; it premiered on January 23, 2020

