Star Trek as ‘going to a national park’: Lower Decks’ creator reflects on the end of the show - eviltoast
And how he initially turned down the opportunity to make his own Star Trek show
Mildly spoilery quote

I pitched a Starbase 80 spinoff to CBS like, three years ago, which is where a lot of this came from. I would love to go back to Starbase 80, but right now there are no plans to do it.