Five seasons, and, if the fifth season is 13 episodes (like seasons 3 and 4),
Discovery will end with fewer episodes than the first show (68 episodes for
Discovery to 79 for Kirk and company).
My initial sense of what happens next with Star Trek is that with two of the 3
live action programs going away over the next two years (Picard's final season
is airing now), there will be some interest in developing another series. I
have to believe that folks at Paramount are looking at what the Star Wars
people are doing in episodic streaming and thinking (correctly or not) that
they can keep churning out shows. Whether that goes anywhere I have no idea.
If they do pursue this, I'd like to see a project that is not as closely linked
to previous programs as the current crop has been (both Lower Decks and Prodigy
have connections to the earlier generation of spinoffs). I enjoy Strange New
Worlds, I'm just not interested in having every Star Trek program so tightly
woven into what has gone before. There's some happy medium between an
MCU-style arrangement and no overlap between the programs. It might not be
exactly the same as was done for the first generation of Trek spinoffs, but I
think something like that would be agreeable.
David
On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 03:15:50 PM PST, M-D November
<[email protected]> wrote:
The addition of Pike (Anton Mount) in season 2 and their eventual jump to the
far future turned the show around and made it feel more Trek-like, but it took
too long to shake off a first season which, yes, felt decidedly un-Trekie.
Personally, I'm OK with Disco closing up shop as long as they leave things open
to a future series set in that timeframe (where, admittedly, there's a lot to
explore). As long as we get more SNW and Lower Decks, I'm OK with it.
On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 5:43:51 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote:
So the Star and Showrunner say on the official social media.
Looking back, my main criticism of this series is that it wasn’t Trek. It was
probably decent scifi and might’ve been decent stories, but it was not decent
Trek. It took too many liberties and was way too self indulgent in simply
ignoring canonical details.
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