The thread lives in the community https://startrek.website/c/startrek , or [email protected]
If you want to view it from your home instance (to remain logged in), you can do this: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
(people from other instances replace 'lemmy.world' with theirs)
I haven't figured out yet how to navigate to specific threads with this method. But there you should see the community while being logged in. The thread in question is #4 from the top.
Not sure if it's a "better way than a title search", but it's an alternative method.