Galactic Magic

• It's 10,000 years in the future (or some big number, it's kind of arbitrary. It's a hell of a long time after anything we've seen, anyways)
• The Federation and the Borg have long-since merged into a galaxy-spanning hyper civilization
• Most sentient life in the galaxy is connected in a sort of utopian hivemind, but you can opt out. There are entire worlds that are just like...wilderness preserves for weird "throwback" types who value their individuality, unique cultures, etc.
• The Civilization basically has a sort of collective midlife crisis and decides that it's stagnated; it hasn't really changed its technology or modes of living in thousands of years and it decides that cultural stasis is a sort of death (there's probably some kind of event to touch this off in the pilot)
• Their solution is that they need to start exploring again to encounter new ideas, but all of the other galaxies are damn far away
• But the Federation-Borg (Forg?) can't really operate over those distances, because they're out of direct contact with the rest of the hive and their units find this existentially terrifying
• So they need to recruit a bunch of people from these weird throwback planets to go out and explore for them in a fleet (or in one really big ship with a bunch of, like, Enterprise-sized support craft)
• Except these people have tensions because they all come from different sorts of cultural perserves. And some of them don't even think that they *should* be helping the Forg expand
• The entire first season just shows their long, long journey through intergalactic space toward the Andromeda galaxy with just a few rare pit stops at isolated star systems all alone in the void
• (Maybe, like...a haunted starship that has been floating in the night for half a billion years or something)
• All of the aliens that they encounter are really weird and gnarly because this is outside the galaxy, so there should be no humanoids
• They eventually get caught up in a bunch of shenanigans between rival gods and the like.

"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack

• The difficulty in academia or a career after spending years thinking you wouldn’t be alive long enough for any of it to matter.
• The exhaustion that comes from self awareness and self soothing, with the constant voice in your head saying “don’t go backwards.”
• How lonely it is to watch the people your age starting families when you’re just barely learning what stable relationships are, and the sudden societal pressure of being “up against a clock” for these kinds of things.
• The judgement from others if you change your image or interests this late in the game just because you finally figured out who you really are under the demons.