The golden era of television is dead and buried, murdered by streaming services that blew up the cable bundle, carved up once-monolithic audiences, and now feed us a steady drip of mediocre content designed to be consumed as the blurry backdrop to your smartphone screen (says the guy currently watching Suits on Netflix). A recent Slate article dubbed our current television era “Trough TV,” but out of that dystopian hellscape, a new golden era may be emerging, all thanks to an unlikely source.

“I think you could easily argue it’s a golden age of science fiction,” Ronald Moore tells Inverse. “I don’t think that’s a mistaken idea.”

For any non-sci-fi nerds among us, Moore is the celebrated TV screenwriter who got his start on Star Trek: The Next Generation and spent 11 years with the beloved franchise. He proceeded to create the universally acclaimed 2004 reboot of the military space opera Battlestar Galactica and followed that up with hit historical time-travel drama Outlander. But Moore isn’t talking about any of those shows. He’s talking about his current project, the speculative history sci-fi series For All Mankind, currently in its fourth season on Apple TV+.

“A lot of the high hopes that we had actually crumbled to pieces around a week before launch.”

Edi Torres, creative director at Mixed Realms, was faced with a hard choice. Despite her team’s intentions, the PlayStation VR2 version of Hellsweeper, a frenetic roguelike shooter, would not have the graphical fidelity of its Steam VR counterpart. When Sony first announced the PS VR2, Mixed Realms was excited about what the headset's hardware specs would allow them to achieve. But toward the end of production, which spanned over three and a half years, Torres tells Inverse an unexpected barrier prevented them from fulfilling that dream.