The ship also can’t be interested in these ships for their intended purposes, since there’s nothing of substance that connects them all-beyond all having disgruntled lower deckers.
Coming back to read this again, it’s a bit amusing that the actual answer was right here and was dismissed.
Hahaha!
In my defense, McMahan and his crew always give us something extraordinary that defies expectations. Cranky Lower Deckers who never developed into anything more seemed pedestrian by comparison.
It was nice to see them subvert the typical “the entire quadrant/galaxy/universe is at stake” trope.
Lower Decks has been really good about that in general. SNW too for that matter.
Prodigy did dip into it, but there was plenty of build up and rarely dwelt in it for too long.
I very much dislike the final episode of Prodigy. We have a ship controlled by a bunch of kids, an admiral who should be in charge of any mission but this one, and timetravelling assassins.
It's a great setup for literally anything but space fleet combat.
And then they had the audacity to do it again in season 3 of Picard!